Christina Hall (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave a presentation entitled "Using Spanish Moss as a Bio-indicator for Air Pollution in the Low Country of Savannah River Basin "at the 66th Annual Conference of Health Physics Society in Phoenix. The study indicated the correlations between the concentration of heavy metals in Spanish…

Dr. Jeff Cummings (Brain Health) published "Trial of Pimavanserin in Dementia-Related Psychosis" in the New England Journal of Medicine.       

Mayra Corn, Ruby Nugent, and Aidy Weeks (Libraries), along with colleagues Melanie Dixson and Niki Kirkpatrick at the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries, presented "POC in LIS Cohorts" at the 2021 People of Color in Library & Information Sciences Summit.     

Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning & Leadership) presented on the UNLV HOPE Scholars program at the Coalition of Urban & Metropolitan Universities summit titled, "Addressing Homelessness & Housing Insecurity." The summit brought together researchers and practitioners from many urban institutions in the United States to…

Michael Green (History) contributed the chapter, "A Mob Museum Matters" to Reckoning With History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom, a collection in honor of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner by his graduate students. The book was published by Columbia University Press.

Emily Lapworth and Su Kim Chung (Libraries) had an article, "The Archives at the Tip of Their Fingers: Exploring User Reactions to Large-Scale Digitization," published in the Journal of Archival Organization. 

Mahdi Hajiali (Computer Science) will have a new study appear in the Proceedings of the 2021 Computing Conference, a highly ranked conference in the areas of computer science and computing. Collaborators included Mahdi Hajiali, Jorge Ramón Fonseca Cacho, and Kazem Taghva (all Computer Science). The study, “Generating Correction…

Mehmet Erdem (Hospitality) and alumnus Sungsik Yoon published a study in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology that provides proof that offering virtual reality features in the hotel search process improves the likelihood of booking. 

Dr. Kenneth Izuora (Medicine) was invited to the editorial board of the journal Endocrine Practice, the official journal of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.