Richard M. Oxborough, Trishan Wickramasinghe, Louisa Messenger (all Environmental and Global Health), Nikita Gopakumar (Mechanical Engineering), Michael Fong (Art), Yafet Tiruha, and Seungman Park (both Mechanical Engineering), along with other researchers from the University of Ghana Anastasia Mosquito Control (Florida) and Imperial College…

Mark Buttner and Patricia Cruz (both Environmental and Global Health) received a 14-month, $1.1 million award through Nevada Health and Human Services to conduct molecular microbiological environmental monitoring and research.

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Global Health) was awarded a $138,544 grant from Texas Tech University to study population dynamics of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the American Southwest.

Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health), Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) Christopher Johansen and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) and Md Sohail Akhter (Ph.D. student) coauthored a paper titled “Exploring Recreational Cannabis Use Cessation Intentions among Adults in the United States Using the Multi-Theory Model…

Erika Marquez (Environmental and Global Health) presented collaborative research with Laurencia Bonsu, Kwame Obeng, Totimeh Totimech, Gbadago Gbadago, Louisa Messenger, and Josh Garn (all Public Health) titled “Assessment of Heavy Metals in Groundwater and Proximity to Illegal Artisanal Mining Sites in Ghana” at the International Conference on…

Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored a paper titled, “Decreasing prevalence in youth depressive episodes: Evidence from the 2021-2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health,” in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, along with researchers from Kentucky, Florida and Mississippi. The study analyzed major depressive episodes among…

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology), Erika Marquez (Environmental and Global Health), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Global Health), Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Social and Behavioral Health & Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy), and Selam Ayele (Environmental and Global Health) published "Household insecticide use and pyrethroid…

Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored a paper titled, “Suicidal Ideation and Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and Marijuana Among U.S. Adults: Findings from the 2021-2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health,” in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, along with researchers from California and Mississippi. The study…

Lung-Chang Chien, Edom Gelaw (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health), and colleagues published an article titled, “Tracking COVID-19 vaccination barriers over time: a census-tract-level barrier index approach,” in the journal Epidemiology and Infection. This study developed a dynamic, census-tract-…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored an article titled, “The effectiveness of long-lasting spatial repellent emanators against malaria in humanitarian crisis settings in northern Nigeria: a two-arm pragmatic, open-label, controlled trial,” in The Lancet’s Infectious Diseases journal, in association with researchers from…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health) and colleagues published an article on "Brown Carbon Optical Variability in US Urban Aerosols Revealed by an Enhanced Spectral/Mass Balance Approach" in the journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters. Light absorption by brown carbon (BrC) represents a major uncertainty in…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health) and colleagues published an article on "Mild Thermal Inactivation Kinetics of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli in Sugarcane Juice: Model Validation under Dilution and Acidification Conditions" in the journal Food and Bioprocess Technology. Sugarcane juice represents one of the freshly…