Tara McManus (Communication Studies) and her co-author Jackson Scott (MA, Communication Studies, now a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) published a paper in Communication Reports titled, "The effects of support providers' sex on the association between friendship standards and support provision."  The study examines how…

An internationally collaborative and interdisciplinary research paper by Mingon Kang (Computer Science), titled "Explainable Integrative Bipartite Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Predicting Ejection Fraction in Echocardiography," has been accepted in 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer…

Francisco Sy, Jay Shen, and Joseph Guerrero Lopez (all Public Health), Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental Medicine) and Reimund Serafica (Nursing) and their co-authors at University of Montana, University of Wyoming, and University of California, Irvine published an article, "Lessons Learned from Ten Years of the Mountain West Clinical and Translational…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) has a new post to share about a team that did everything right. They prioritized well-being and the creative process over crunch. Read it and you'll learn a bit about them, as well as the one thing that's keeping him from 112%ing Hollow Knight. There are some takeaways for balancing creativity and productivity with…

Barbara Lewis, Erika Marquez, Chris Cochran, Neeraj Bhandari, Soumya Upadhyay (all Public Health), and Stowe Shoemaker (Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement), co-authored an article, "Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Council Accelerators and Barriers: A Qualitative Study," published in the Journal of Patient Experience.

Colette LaBouff and Charlotte Wyatt (both Black Mountain Institute) presented the workshop, "Becoming Arts Leaders: Exploring Mentorship in Arts Administration," at the Third Annual Las Vegas Arts and Culture Summit, on Aug. 21 at the Historic Fifth Street School, Downtown Las Vegas.  The workshop was for arts organizations, and…

Cheryl Abbate's (Philosophy) paper, "'Higher' and 'Lower' Political Animals: A Critical Analysis of Aristotle’s Account of the Political Animal," was re-published in Animal History: History as If Animals Mattered, edited by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey.

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) accepted an invitation to present “Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer: Screening and Early Detection" during the Nevada Cancer Coalition Annual Cancer Control Summit. She spoke to an audience of physicians, nurses, healthcare professionals, and advocates involved with cancer control efforts in Nevada to raise awareness about…

Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published an article, "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Food Insecurity Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 2017–2021," in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.