Rajiv Kishore (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) had a paper, “Theorizing About the Early Stage Diffusion of Co-dependent IT Innovations,” accepted for publication by the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), which is listed as a top-tier “A+” journal in the Lee Business School’s SARS journal list. This paper was…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) is a recipient of a 2022 Springer Nature Editorial Contributions Award for her editorial service to the Malaria Journal. Through their assessment of new submissions and rigorous management of the peer review process, Springer Nature's editors and editorial board members safeguard the…

Paul La Plante (Computer Science) was awarded a three-year, $707,955 grant from the National Science Foundation titled, "Collaborative Research: Exploring Reionization and the Cosmic Dawn through Cross-Correlations." The goal of this grant is to improve our understanding of the first stars and galaxies in the universe, and combine data from…

Chad L. Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an extension outreach publication with Estelle Martin and Lucas Brendel from University of Florida's Department of Entomology and Nematology on the human flea (Pulex irritans). This flea often lives in close association with humans and has been implicated as a potentially important…

Junggab Son (Computer Science) was a senior author on a recently accepted paper titled, "Improving Fashion Attribute Classification Accuracy With Limited Labeled Data Using Transfer Learning," in the 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (IEEE ICMLA'22). 

Kara Christensen (Psychology) and colleagues at the University of Kansas, led by Kelsie Forbush, recently published an article, "Generalized network psychometrics of eating-disorder psychopathology," in the International Journal of Eating Disorders that compares different models for understanding eating disorder psychopathology…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries," in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. Wang collaborates with a group of psychologists around the world and examines the make-up usage across the countries. This article shows…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's Ombuds Office.  Called, "What Does an Ombuds Do (And How Do You Say It)?," the post provides a serious but not-too-serious explanation of what an ombuds does, and how the word is pronounced.  For more information about the Ombuds Office…

Bowen Liu (Mathematical Sciences) published an article titled, "Impact of COVID-19 on college students at one of the most diverse campuses in the USA: a factor analysis of survey data," in BMJ Open. He and his team conducted a university-level survey study on UNLV students, which is the first study that assessed the perceived stress of university…