Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute are in charge of The Data Hub, a collaborative project that now contains more than 100 Fact Sheets and interactive resources prepared by faculty, staff, and student researchers. Launched in early 2020, The Data Hub is a resource for current and historical public policy data on Las Vegas, Nevada, and…

Samantha Godbey (Libraries) has been elected vice chair/chair-elect of the Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries. With this three-year appointment, she will become chair-elect in July 2021, chair in July 2022, and past-chair in July 2023. EBSS is an organization of approximately 1,000…

John Starkey (Business), Savannah Baltera (Campus Life), Amy Carito (Business Affairs), Amber Sevart (Student Engagement and Diversity), and Liane Lee (Alumni) headed an awareness and fundraising event in April on behalf of the Administrative Faculty Committee that benefited the local nonprofit Project 150. Project 150 is an organization dedicated…

Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) is the first author of a newly published article, "Nurturing Care Indicators for the Brazilian Early Childhood Friendly Municipal Index (IMAPI)" in the Maternal and Child Nutrition journal. The Nurturing Care Framework calls for establishing a global monitoring and accountability…

Rebecca Gill (Political Science) and Daniel J. Mallinson (Penn State Harrisburg) published "Strategies for How Men Can Advance Gender Equity in Political Science," an introduction to the symposium they co-edited in PS: Political Science & Politics. This symposium includes 10 articles covering a wide range of ways that men can work to promote…

Alan Simmons (Anthropology) is co-author of an article just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The piece "No Evidence for Widespread Island Extinction after Pleistocene Hominin Arrival," takes a global perspective on the impact that humans had on endemic island faunas. He is a Distinguished Professor emeritus.  

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) in collaboration with researchers at the University of Colorado and the University of South Florida published a report on the dietary associations of food and nutrient intake with the development of coronary artery…

Seyhmus Baloglu, Tony L. Henthorne, and  Eun Joo Kim (all Hospitality) coauthored the article, "Signaling Effects of Branded Amenities on Customer-based Brand Equity." Published in the Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management, the article found that the effects of branded amenities on customer-based brand equity …

Drs. Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj, Aditi Singh (both Medicine) and Chad Cross (Environmental and Occupational Health), along with Drs. Bhavana Bhaya, Dimal Patel, Justin Jeffries, and Edward Co, all former chief internal medicine residents (Medicine), presented their research poster at the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Online 2021 meeting…