Kavita Batra, Anne Weisman (both Medicine), Ravi Batra, and Manoj Sharma (both Public Health) along with researchers from the CDC Foundation, Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, and other countries, including India, Italy, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, co-authored an article, "Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Variants: A Rapid Literature…

Mary Blankenship (The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West, Economics, Chemistry) recently had her research on Twitter posts featured in a Las Vegas Review-Journal story and on a City Cast Las Vegas podcast episode. She collects and studies varying public responses on Twitter that occur after a mass shooting. After reviewing tweets…

Benjamin Burroughs, Benjamin J. Morse, Travis Carmona (all Journalism and Media Studies), and Travis Snow (Sociology) have published an article, "The Masks We Wear: Watchmen, Infrastructural Racism, and Anonymity" in the journal Television & New Media. As COVID-19 has led to the politicization of masks and the donning of masks, the…

Yaa Obeng (Public Policy and Leadership, and Nursing) was named Best Master of Public Administration Graduate Student for the School of Public Policy and Leadership at the 2022 College Scholarship and Awards Ceremony. She also is the School of Nursing’s graduate engagement and retention coordinator.

Valarie Burke (Graduate College) and Annie Weisman (Medicine) recently presented at the 2022 NASPA Annual Conference.   In the interactive session — titled Best Practices in Crisis/Suicide Prevention: Perspectives from Graduate, Law, Medical, and Post-Graduate Programs — presenters introduced Early Alert, a theoretically grounded,…

Elizabeth D. Kahane (Graduate College), Lung-Chang Chien, Brian Labus, and Sheniz Moonie (all Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Dharini M. Bhammar (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), and Jocy-Anna Chevalier (Public Health) published an article on "Depression and Factors Impacting Quality of Life among Adults with Asthma Presence in Nevada" in…

Aldo Barrita (Psychology) was one of the two UNLV graduate students accepted at the Crossing Latinidades Summer Institute in Latino Humanities Studies Methodologies and Theories to take place at the University of Illinois at Chicago this summer. The institute’s goal is to equip participants who are already thinking of dissertation ideas with…

Kamali'ilani Wetherell (Criminal Justice) was selected as UNLV’s nominee for the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) & ProQuest 2021-22 Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award in humanities, social sciences, education, and business disciplines. Wetherell's advisor is professor Hong Lu.  Bryson Carrier (Kinesiology) is UNLV’s…

Jayme Haynes (Nursing) successfully defended her dissertation, "Effects of a Discourse Intervention on End of Life Knowledge and Attitude in BSN Nursing Students”. She will earn her doctorate title once her courses finish this semester

Euiseong Ko and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) are a co-author and a corresponding author on a new conference paper, "PathCNN: Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks for Survival Prediction and Pathway Analysis Applied to Glioblastoma," in International Society for Computational Biology (ISMB), which is a #1 ranked bioinformatics…

Billy Bai and Huiying Zhang (both Hospitality), together with Xi Yu Leung, ’12 PhD in Hospitality Administration, and Yunpeng Li, are authors of "Uncovering Crowdsourcing in Tourism Apps: A Grounded Theory Approach" published in Tourism Management. Applying the grounded theory, researchers propose a framework that identifies the drive of…

Bonnie Stolzman (Nursing) successfully defended her doctor of nursing practice project, "New Nurse Reality Shock & Early Burnout; Can Role Transition Education Received During New Nurse Residency Positively Affect Satisfaction?" She will officially earn her doctor status upon completing her semester coursework.