Shih-Chun "Steven" Chien (Law) and his co-authors, Justice Goodwin Liu and Ajay K. Mehrotra, have published their article, "The 'Bamboo Ceiling' in Law: Asian American Perspectives of Inequality in the Legal Profession," in the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

Amy Mathis-Leonard (Undergraduate Education and High-Impact Practices) presented with Tammi Perez-Rice (University of Texas, Austin) in a session during the 2026 Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics on June 17 to discuss Nevada’s Journey to a Statistics Pathway. The presentation was a summary of collaborative work between…

Emily Janes (Couple and Family Therapy) and co-authors at Texas Tech and Fairfield University recently published a manuscript titled "Maintaining Family Relationships After Religious Disaffiliation: A Grounded Theory" in Family Process. This article explores, from the perspective of disaffiliated individuals, how families are able to…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “TyG Index and Frailty as Composite Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Risk and Mortality Across CKM Stages 0–3” in the journal Metabolites (Impact factor 4.5) in collaboration with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University and Qatar University. The study…

Aya Shata represented her research team, including Arthur Soto-Vasquez and Dave Nourse (all Journalism and Media Studies), in presenting their paper titled "Generative AI in the Eyes of PR Practitioners: A Longitudinal Study of Evolving Perceptions, Practices, and Concerns" at the International Communication Association Conference in…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) has been selected as a 2026 Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI) Scholar, a highly competitive national program sponsored by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Selected based on her accomplishments, commitment to health disparities…

Alexandra Nur and Kaylee Faria (both Criminal Justice) along with their co-author Ian Silver (RTI International) recently published a manuscript titled "Seasonal Mental Health Symptoms Amongst Former Criminal Legal System-Involved Adolescents" in the Journal of Adolescence. The article examines whether the season in which respondents are…

Tom Romero (Law) presented a continuing legal education (CLE) webinar for the Colorado Bar Association’s Water Law Section. His presentation was titled, "Re-Imagining the Legal History of Water Law in 'Colorful' Colorado (and Its Implications for the Present and Future Practice of Water Law)."

Recognized for her work in international children's rights, Maryam Ahranjani (Law) was recently invited to deliver a series of lectures in Japan. She presented "The Past, Present and Future of the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project" at Meiji and Waseda Universities. Additionally, at Fukuoka University, she analyzed the United…