Leah Chan Grinvald (Law) served as a breakout session facilitator for "Helpful Navigation Strategies for External Deans" at the 2026 ABA-AALS Deans' Week.

Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored a new meta-analysis in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled "Divergent trait controls on soluble sugars and starch underlie global strategies of tree carbohydrate storage." This study showed that phylogeny and functional traits—especially stomatal regulation, photosynthetic…

Bradley Marianno and Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education and the Center for Research, Evaluation, and Assessment) received a $1 million dollar federal grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (Department of Education) to continue their study of Nevada's Pupil-Centered Funding Plan, the state's formula for…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy), Lauren Freeman (University of Louisville), and Avery Kolers (University of Tennessee) published "Double Binds of Reproductive Injustice: A Response to Kuczewski et al." in The American Journal of Bioethics.

Arpita Basu and Brian Schilling (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) together with Gabriela Buccini (Public Health), Anne Linsday (UNR Extension) and Ph.D. candidate Macy Helm (Integrated Health Sciences) published a comprehensive systematic review on the role of dietary polyphenols as bioactive compounds in the glycemic control of…

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) accepted an invitation to present "Red White and Urgent: The Clinical Warning Signs of Oral Cancer" during the national Academy of General Dentistry annual meeting last month. She discussed the steps of performing a comprehensive oral examination, identified risk factors, highlighted clinical features of oral cancers and…

Jeff Schauer (History) presented work at the European Congress of Conservation Biology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Based on archival research in the National Archives of Zambia and the Natural History Museum (London), Schauer argued that critical qualitative historical analysis of the processes by which conservationists…

Lori Johnson’s (Law) article, Redefining Roles and Duties of the Transactional Lawyer: A Narrative Approach, was included in the 15th volume of the Legal Writing Institute’s Monograph Series. The new volume explores the intersections of ethics, professional responsibility, social justice, storytelling, and generative artificial intelligence…

Alanna Bitzel (Writing Center) appears in "Publishing Your Advising Expertise," the newest episode of the Adventures in Academic Advising podcast. She and co-authors Sarah Bechtel and Melissa Cumbia of Virginia Tech explore how academic advisors can transform their expertise into meaningful scholarship through publishing and…