Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) published a chapter titled "Animal Ethics" in the Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare. This chapter discusses competing accounts of moral status and ethical theory as they relate to nonhuman animals.

Sunny Kim and Mehmet Erdem (both Hospitality) along with doctoral program alumnus, SungJun Joe, published a research article titled "The bright and dark sides of hotel kiosks: an empirical study" in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights. The study introduces a check-in/out kiosk acceptance model using a multi-theoretical approach…

Zachary Frank, a UNLV alumnus, and Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) published "On the mechanism of performance improvement of electroactive polyvinyl chloride (PVC) gel actuators via conductive fillers" in Scientific Reports.

Bowen Liu and Malwane M.A. Ananda (both Mathematical Sciences) published an article titled, "A Generalized Family of Exponentiated Composite Distributions" in Mathematics. This paper proposed a new family of distributions. Two special models within this family were introduced, and both models demonstrated great performance when fitting…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled, “Psychological help-seeking among college students: Applying the multi-theory model of health behavior change in assessing telehealth use for psychological help-seeking” in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine in association with coauthors from the University of…

Jared Oestman (Political Science) and Songying Fang from Rice University published "The Limit of American Public Support for Military Intervention" in Armed Forces & Society. They conducted a survey experiment on a sample of American citizens to understand what determines public support for different forms of U.S.-led military…

Several colleagues from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV published "Clinical Characteristics and Implications of Bradycardia in COVID‑19 Patients Treated with Remdesivir: A Single‑Center Retrospective Cohort Study" in the journal Clinical Drug Investigation. The results of the study highlight the need to evaluate the…

The UNLV Division of Acute Care Surgery worked with the UNLV Office of Traffic Safety to publish "Higher risk of auto versus pedestrian crashes in school-age children on school days" in the ​​​​​​Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. The study evaluated children who were hit by cars in Las Vegas and found that the risk of crash…

Shane Kraus, Kaelyn Griffin, Bailey Way, Todd Jennings (all Psychology) and colleagues published six papers this summer.  The first paper (Predictors of compulsive sexual behavior among treatment-seeking women) was published in Sexual Medicine. The second paper (The Holistic Recovery Capital in Gambling Disorder Index: A pilot study) was…