Notable: Tyler Parry
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on Channel 8 News in Las Vegas to provide historical context for the 2020 protests following the death of George Floyd, specifically comparing it to the Rodney King protests of 1992.
Published: Kavita Batra, Jennifer Pharr, John Olawepo, and Patricia Cruz
Kavita Batra, Jennifer Pharr, John O. Olawepo, and Patricia Cruz (all Public Health) published an article on "Understanding the Multidimensional Trajectory of Psychosocial Maternal Risk Factors Causing Preterm Birth: A Systematic Review" in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry.
Among all known risk factors of preterm birth, psychosocial…
Presentation: Shane Kraus
Shane Kraus (Psychology) presented his work, Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder in ICD-11: Clinical Considerations and Future Directions, as part of a symposium, Clinical Features of Behavioral Addictions, at the virtual annual International Society of Addiction Medicine and Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine conference.
Exhibition: Sapira Cheuk
Sapira Cheuk (Art) created an online exhibition on Instagram @unlvtheear, the department of art's Instagram page. Titled Here I am/Here We Are, multiple posts this week focus on first-generation experience and first-generation creatives in the UNLV community. Online, you'll see artworks and statements from students in art and design…
Published: David Schwartz
David G. Schwartz (Faculty Affairs) recently published an article about the Kefauver Committee's hearing in Las Vegas on the Mob Museum's blog as part of that institution's commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the hearing. The second-floor courtroom in which the committee, a Senate investigatory panel chaired by Tennessee Democrat Estes…
Published: Manoj Sharma
Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) has co-authored an article, "Physical Activity Among School-aged Children and Intervention Programs Using Self-determination theory (SDT): A Scoping Review" with his former doctoral student Tameka Stewart (Jackson State University School of Public Health) that has been published in the Journal…
Published: Dave Beisecker
Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) published a paper, "Regions of Force: Peirce, Frege, Carroll and Bilateral Proof Trees," in the European logic journal, Logique & Analyse. The paper shows how distinct and overlooked diagrammatic insights in the logical notations of three 19th-century logicians are brought together in a novel…
Published: Marc Kahn
Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) published a paper with his colleagues titled, "The Tulane accelerated physician training program: a novel combination of scholarship and service," in the journal Medical Teacher. The paper describes a novel program designed to allow talented undergraduates to complete a BS and an MD degree in six years.…
Presentation: Chad Cross and Brianna Rivera
Chad L. Cross (Environmental & Occupational Health) and Brianna Rivera (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) presented their research "Using hospital discharge records for characterizing patients and analyzing trends in West Nile virus cases in Nevada for 2013-2017" at the 2020 Annual Conference of the Entomological Society of America held…
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