Frankie A. Colosimo. Philip Borsellino, Reese I. Krider, Raul E. Marquez, and Thomas A. Vida (all Medicine) published the study, "The Clinical Potential of Dimethyltryptamine: Breakthroughs into the Other Side of Mental Illness, Neurodegeneration, and Consciousness." About the study The human brain controls everything from thoughts to actions…
Professor Frank Rudy Cooper (Law) and University of Washington School of Law Dean Tamara Lawson had an online discussion on about Terry v. Ohio and the long-reaching effects of the court's decision. 
Professor Addie Rolnick (Law) published a new article in the Journal of School Violence titled, "Excluded and Erased: The Conspicuous Absence of Native Children in Research on School Discipline Disparities." 
Dr. Jessica Immonen (Dental) and Jason Ciccotelli (Physical Therapy) worked with a team of healthcare professionals with expertise in human anatomy to publish an article on anatomy education as a community outreach opportunity. The article titled "Anatomical Outreach is Within Reach: Contemporary and Diverse Approaches" followed a panel discussion…
Eve Hanan (Law) recently published the article "Terror and Tenderness in Criminal Law." The article critiques the emotional appeal of recent criminal justice reforms that rely on individual acts of leniency, like parole and progressive prosecution, arguing that these reforms actually legitimate the excessive harshness of criminal law. 
Katherine Howard, Karl Kingsley, Conner Belnap and Tyler Divis (all Dental) published "Differential Expression of MicroRNA MiR-145 and MiR-155 Downstream Targets in Oral Cancers Exhibiting Limited Chemotherapy Resistance" in latest edition of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 
John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Science; UNLV Sports Innovation Institute) and Andrew Craig-Jones, a UNLV alum now assistant professor at Augusta University, were the senior and lead author on the paper "The effect of compression garments on biomechanical and physiological factors" in Biomechanics. This paper also was co-authored by James…
Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy, Center for Health Disparities Research) recently co-authored a paper, "Smoking Cessation and Pancreatic Cancer Risk in Individuals With Prediabetes and Diabetes: A Nationwide Cohort Study," in Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a paper titled, "Making Nevada Schools Safer: The State of Empirical Evidence." The policy paper reviews the measures taken to improve school safety. He reports that the evidence shows that overall safety in the nation’s elementary and secondary schools has…

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