Katherine Marcal (Social Work) published an article, "Demographic and Socioeconomic Predictors of Behavioral Trajectories from Age 3 to 15: A Longitudinal Mixed Effects Approach," in the Journal of Child and Family Studies. This study used a large, nationally representative sample of at-risk families to investigate the effects of a range of…

David Damore (Political Science), Robert Lang (Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute), and Karen Danielsen (Public Policy and Leadership) published Blue Metros, Red States: The Shifting Urban-Rural Divide in America's Swing States (Brookings Institution Press). The book, which includes contributions from William Brown (Brookings Mountain…

Five School of Nursing undergraduate students, Vanessa Baragan, Kyle Soto, Alexandria Fuzzard, Iris Martinez, and Karen Nava, and one alumna, Heather Shawcross, ('20 BSN) were recognized as Rising Stars at the Nevada Nurses Foundation's Shining Stars of Nursing in Nevada gala. The students were honored for their nursing accomplishments in the…

Peter Michel (Libraries) has been awarded a City of Las Vegas Historic Preservation Commission Annual Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation. He was selected for the award for his "tireless efforts to curate and preserve historical collections of manuscripts, architectural renderings, maps, and other materials that document the…

Jefferson Kinney (Brain Health) and James Hyman (Psychology) received a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Aging to continue the research examining the link between Type II diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. The grant will support them as they continue to investigate the mechanisms underlying Type II diabetes…

Dr. Richard Baynosa and Dr. Joshua Goldman (Medicine) are featured speakers during the Nevada Cancer Coalition's Cancer Survivorship Series in October. The plastic surgeons' presentations include "Addressing the Needs of Breast Cancer Survivors Post Mastectomy" and "Solving the 'Unsolvable' Problems Post Mastectomy — Treating Lymphedema…

Su Kim Chung (Libraries) was interviewed for the recent Vegas PBS documentary "The Showgirl: A Las Vegas Icon." She will be giving a presentation, "History and Legacy of the Las Vegas Showgirl," for the Rebel Recharge Webinar series. Also, her work as a "showgirl archivist" was the subject of a recent episode of the podcast series "…

Sutirtha Chatterjee, Andrew Hardin, and Greg Moody (all Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) co-authored a paper, "The Nonlinear Influence of Harmonious Information Technology Affordance on Organizational Innovation," that has been accepted by the Information Systems Journal (ISJ). ISJ is an A journal on the LEE SARS journal list.…

Tiffany Lin (Art) has a solo exhibit at Spring Valley Library until Dec. 20. Her project, "24 VIEWS, " is a drawing series and social practice project that investigates the United States Census and its impact on American identity. Through drawings based on publicly available Census data, the project demonstrates how shifting definitions of race,…