Kass Moore (Career Services) a career and professional development specialist, presented at the 2020 NASPA Regional Conference last week.  Her event was within the Student Affairs Speaks component of the program. The description of the event was as follows: "As a young, queer professional, I often find it challenging to…

Drs. Neilmegh Varada, Matthew Warren, and Kush Modi (Internal Medicine) recently presented a case report in the American Thoracic Society virtual meeting 2020. Their case entitled “Unilateral Pulmonary Fibrosis Following Lobectomy” described an unusual presentation of unilateral pulmonary fibrosis as a sequela of lobectomy. The authors concluded…

Martha Lizabeth Phelps (Political Science) participated as a panelist in The Journal of the Plague Year: A Covid-19 Archive workshop on how to use the archive in the classroom. Educators from various backgrounds gathered to discuss the advantages, challenges, and methods of using the journal as an interactive instructional tool. …

Marla Royne Stafford's (Hospitality) article entitled "Connecting and Communicating with the Customer: Advertising Research for the Hospitality Industry" was published in the October-December 2020 printed edition of the Journal of Advertising. This article, which was available digitally in September 2020, appears in the journal's…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) presented his work, Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention, at the virtual Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling ENGAGE conference. His talk focused on using mindfulness-based relapse prevention for the treatment of gambling disorder in United States veterans.

Jennifer Culley, Annette Day, Cory Tucker, and Andrea Wirth (all Libraries) recently presented at the virtual Charleston Library Conference 2020. They presented the paper, "Change is Constant: Managing and Evolving Acquisitions Environment". Cully also presented a poster, "Overview of the Future of Academic Library Acquisitions: Things to Think…

Peter Michel (Libraries) has published an article, "Reporting the Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Nevada" on the Nevada Digital Newspaper Project's blog.  https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/blog/. The Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918-19 is the only modern precedent for the current COVID-19 pandemic. The article describes how that pandemic, which…

Marla Royne Stafford (Hospitality) is the co-author of an article, “Determining Uses and Gratifications for the Internet,” that ranks as the #4 most downloaded paper in the 50-year history of the Decision Science Journal — a top journal in the decision sciences field. Originally published in 2004, the article looks at consumer…

Kevin Wright (Student Diversity & Social Justice), Sonja Ardoin of Appalachian State University, Gabe Marenco-Garcia of the University of Pennsylvania, and Nik Mabry of Volunteer State Community College presented a workshop as part of ACPA—College Student Educators International's professional development initiative. The workshop also was…