Anita Chatterjee, Laurencia Bonsu, and Sidath Kapukotuwa (all Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a grant of $3,000 each for their proposal titled, “A phenomenological qualitative study based on the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change to identify factors and ways to design interventions for quitting gambling among older…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored an article titled, “Mother-daughter’s relationship with menstrual hygiene and premenstrual symptoms in Iranian teenage girls,” in the Journal of Education and Community Health with authors from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. The article highlights the crucial role of mothers to buffer…

Lisa Johnson (Anthropology) presented her work, "Ritualizing Labor and Craft at the Classic Maya City of Palenque," in an invited session, "Social Archaeology Futures," at the annual American Anthropological Association conference in Seattle, Washington.

Jared Lau (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) and colleagues from Oregon State University, Southern Oregon University, The Family Institute at Northwestern University, and Governors State University published an article, "Counselor Educators Using Self as Instrument in Antiracist Teaching," in the journal Counselor…

Noah Romero (Education, NV-EPIC) presented two lectures: Decolonizing pedagogies: Unschooling and Indigenous education and Unsettling teacher preparation through critical race theory, post-humanism, and subcultural learning to the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College in Amherst, MA.

In their article, "The Impacts of Employee Reviews and Employer Awards on Job Seekers’ Application Intentions," authors Yunxuan Zhang (Ph.D. student) and Cass Shum and Amanda Belarmino (both Hospitality) explored the effect of online reviews and best employer awards on organizational prestige and application intentions. The article can be…

Amanda Belarmino (Hospitality) examines the application of theory to two groups of literary tourists: members of literary societies and the general public in her article, Application of theory to literary tourism: A comparison of parasocial interaction theory and co-creation theory. Published in the Journal of Heritage Tourism…

Sidath Kapukotuwa, Anita Chatterjee, and Laurencia Bonsu (all Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a grant of $3,000 each for their proposal titled, “Explaining the correlates of problem gambling behavior based on the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change among college students: A cross-sectional study,” by the UNLV's…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) was recently invited to serve as an editorial board member with the journal Psychiatry Research Case Reports. The mission of this journal is to disseminate cutting edge knowledge in order to improve patient care and advance the understanding of mental illness. Batra has published several peer-reviewed articles related…