Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) has been awarded a  two-year grant of $700,000 as principal investigator for the process evaluation of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention public health disparities grant to the state of Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. The process evaluation will entail…

Dr. Neamat Hassan and Dr. Hassan Ziada (both Dental) published a collaborative research article online, ahead of print titled "Patients' perspectives of grafting materials in implant dentistry: A qualitative analysis" in the Journal of International Society of Preventive and Community Dentistry.

Kenneth Varner, Tina Vo, and PG Schrader (all Teaching and Learning), and Danica G. Hays (Education) along with their colleagues Claudio Diaz of the University of Concepcion and  Michaela Stone of Northern Vermont University published the article "Interacciones pedagógicas y prácticas culturalmente relevantes entre…

Reimund Serafica (Nursing) was named the new onsite director for community engagement and outreach core at UNLV for the CTR-IN Program. He will help support investigators in the Mountain West and provide essential input into health disparity research areas and their prioritization.

Monica Hernández-Johnson (Educational Psychology and Higher Education); Valerie Taylor and Ravijot Singh (both Interdisciplinary, Gender, & Ethnic Studies); and Norma A. Marrun, Tara J. Plachowski, and Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) coauthored an article, “Like Where Are Those Teachers?”: A…

Shane W. Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published five papers this summer. The first paper "Attachment insecurities and body image self-consciousness among women: The mediating role of pornography use" was published in Computers in Human Behavior. "Reliability, Validity, and Unidimensionality of the Korean Version of the…

Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health) published "Subjective cognitive decline higher among sexual and gender minorities in the United States, 2015–2018,"  in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions that found that LGBTQ+ people or sexual and gender minorities…

Aldo M. Barrita (Psychology) received the 2021 Anastasi Graduate Student Research Award: Early Graduate Student for the APA's Division 52 (International Psychology). This award, named for Anne Anastasi, is for outstanding graduate student research, with priority given to research that focuses on psychometrics and differential psychology…

Ariana Garcia and Blanca Rincón (both Educational Psychology and Higher Education) co-authored a manuscript on how alliance-based STEM enrichment programs broker graduate-related opportunities for students of color. Using a single case study of a Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation  alliance, they found that these…