Mary Whitehead (Student Diversity and Social Justice) served on a panel earlier this month honoring the legacy of civil rights activist and U.S. Rep. John Lewis sponsored by United Way of Southern Nevada. The panel discussed the documentary film John Lewis: Good Trouble, which explores Lewis's life, legacy, and more than 60 years of extraordinary…

John Curry (History) was the featured guest on an inaugural podcast series launched by the Yunus Emre Institute in Washington, D.C. Hosted by Cengiz Sisman, the virtual podcast "Humans of the Ottoman Empire: Sufis," was attended by several hundred people from around the world and covered a variety of topics related to the influence of Islamic…

Asma Tahir, Samin Kamal, Mark Buttner (all Environmental & Occupational Health), and Dennis Bazylinski (Life Sciences), along with Joseph Jean, '18 BS Health Education and '20 Master of Public Health, and local allergist/immunologist Dr. Jorem Seggev, presented a virtual poster at the 2021 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma…

Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) published a peer-reviewed conference paper, "Applying Advanced Data Analytics Methods to the Baseline Data of ISD Sensor Network Testbed for System Failure Detection," in the proceeding of the Waste Management Symposia 2021. In this work, advanced data analytics methods are applied to the in-…

P. Jane Hafen (English) appeared in a PBS webinar, "Unladylike2020: Elevating the Hidden History of American Women: Indigenous Changemakers."  

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) was interviewed by The New Yorker about her recent research situated at the intersection of reproductive bioethics and immigration justice, which is discussed in the article "The Link Between the Capitol Riot and Anti-Abortion Extremism," by Jessica Winter.

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) coauthored an article, “Skin Cancer in Skin of Color. The Importance of Expanding Education and Prevention Efforts to Include This Community” in collaboration with colleagues from University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Mississippi Medical Center in the Journal of Dermatology…

Aaron Saiewitz (Accounting) published an article for The Conversation titled "Support for Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Package May Not Be as Broad as it Seems – It’s All a Matter of Perspective" with Dave Piercey from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Conversation is a website dedicated to sharing academic research with a…

Sam Leif (Summer Term) presented "Do I Have to be an “Other” to be Myself? Nonbinary Gender in Taxonomy, Data Collection, and through the Lifecycle," and "Data Consultations, Racism, and Critiquing Colonialism in Demographic Datasheets" at the annual Summit of the Research Data Access & Preservation Association examining racial, social, and…