Mary D. Bondmass (Nursing) gave a podium presentation titled "An Evidence-based Intervention to Address Students’ Understanding of Assignments and Improve Faculty Teaching Evaluation Scores" at the Sigma's 32nd Internation Research Congress held virtually July 21-23.  The congress was scheduled to be held this year in Singapore but was…

Barb Brents (Sociology) served as a commissioner for the Oregon Sex Workers Human Rights Commission hearing on July 15.  The hearing focused on the harms that Oregonians face under sex work criminalization and included testimony from sex workers, service providers, legislators and researchers.

Drs. Awad Javaid, Banveet Kaur Khetarpal, Aditi Singh, Jimmy Diep, and Chowdhury Ahsan (all Medicine) recently co-authored an abstract published in European Heart Journal: Cardiovascular Imaging titled "Clinical course and surgical outcomes in middle-age adults with anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery." This study retrospectively analyzed…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds Office) recently gave a virtual presentation to the Rotary Club of Waikiki called "Las Vegas History: The World's Casino Capital--and the Ninth Island." The talk recapped the history of Las Vegas, with an emphasis on the city's connections to Hawaii.

Sarah Jones, Tammi Kim, and Emily Lapworth (Libraries) co-presented "Beyond the Las Vegas Strip: Assessing Archival Diversity at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas" at the 2021 Society of American Archivists Research Forum.

Michelle Tusan (History) will give a public presentation at noon July 25 on the legacy of Lawrence of Arabia, sponsored by the National World War I Museum and Memorial. 

Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) co-authored "An Exploratory Study to Develop a Career Technical Education Leadership Self-Efficacy Scale," which appeared in The CTE Journal. His co-authors were Michelle Conrad of the University of Central Missouri, Kemaly Parr of Murray State University, Larae Watkins of University of Cental…

Brookings Mountain West recently published two policy briefs authored by colleagues from the Brookings Institution. The first, titled "Improving K-12 Education for Hispanic Students in Las Vegas and Beyond" explores the racial and ethnic achievement gaps, including teacher diversity, for Hispanic students within the Clark County School…

Timothy J. Grigsby (Environmental & Occupational Health) co-published an article on "The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Substance Use Trajectories in a Longitudinal Hispanic Cohort from Adolescence through Emerging Adulthood" in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect. This study examined the role of adverse childhood experiences in…