Peter Grema (Economics, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute, Honors College) was recently featured in the UNLV Libraries Special Collections & Archives Researcher Profile series discussing his research of the Clark County Economic Opportunity Board (EOB) for a History of Las Vegas class. Grema is an undergraduate.

Chad L. Cross (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an extension outreach publication with Peter DiGennaro (Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of Florida) on the sealworm nematode (Pseudoterranova decipiens). This parasitic nematode is common in marine systems, but opportunistically affects humans when ingested…

Joseph Lema (Hospitality) and co-authors recently published their article, "Classification of Senior Tourists According to Personality Traits" in the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. The purpose of the research was to understand the nature of senior tourists’ personality traits and its implications for motivation, preferences, and…

Dan Bubb (Honors), along with other former and current airline industry professionals, did an interview with the Washington Post on the emergence of new, upstart airlines during the COVID-19 pandemic.    

Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) has published "Streets for People of Las Vegas," part of the "Lockdown Aesthetics and Gentrification" dossier on Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. The essay draws on her ongoing research  on art and urban development to address zoning, urban development, and gentrification in Las Vegas before and…

Timothy J. Grigsby (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article on "Adverse Childhood Experiences and Past 30-day Cigarette and E-Cigarette Use Among Sexual and Gender Minority College Students" in the journal LGBT Health. Sexual and gender minority (SGM) young adults report disproportionately higher rates of…

Constancio R. Arnaldo Jr. (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed by Yahoo! sports reporter Henry Bushnell about the underrepresentation of Asian Americans in major U.S. sports. Arnaldo is an assistant professor in the Asian and Asian American studies program. 

Qingmin Shi (Decision Support), along with Robin Cresiski (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Sandip Thanki and Lori Navarrete (both Nevada State College), recently published an article “Undergraduate Research at a Teaching-Oriented College: Seniors’ Perspectives and Approaches to Consider” in the Journal of the Scholarship of…

Dr. Francisco S. Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) is the new principal investigator (PI) of the Mountain West Clinical and Translational Research Infrastructure Network grant. The National Institutes of Health approved his appointment as the new PI of this grant on June 7. The goal of this $20 million, five-year grant project…