Students in John Starkey’s Fall BUS 103 Classes (Business) raised nearly $9,000 for local charities during the fall semester. The charities receiving funds were: The Poppy Foundation ($1,000) JAG Nevada ($1,144) The Cupcake Girls ($1,005) Helping Hands of Vegas Valley ($1,014) Trauma Intervention Program (TIP) of Southern Nevada, Inc. ($1,…

Dharini Bhammar (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) co-authored two articles in Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology. The first, “Dyspnea on Exertion Provokes Unpleasantness and Negative Emotions in Women with Obesity,” demonstrated that 42 percent of otherwise healthy women with obesity experience dyspnea on exercise. Results also indicated…

Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute), Sally Gainsbury (University of Sydney), Kahlil Philander (Washington State University), and Jeff Butler (University of California, Merced) published a paper, "Customized Responsible Gambling Messaging as a Tool to Encourage Help-Seeking,” in BMC Public Health. The paper analyzes how…

Numerous UNLV Students won awards at the Media Innovation Hackathon sponsored by the Beasley Media Group in collaboration with UNLV at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month. Student teams aimed to generate potential commercial products. Winners include: First Place: Converting Radio Waves to Energy. Matias Allieti (Mechanical…

Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute), along with Mark Johnson (University of Alberta), recently published a paper, "Esports Consumer Perspectives on Match Fixing: Implications for Gambling Awareness and Game Integrity,” in International Gambling Studies. The paper examines esports consumers’ awareness of and…

Rachel Kelly and Abebe Muraga  (both Medicine) were selected to present their abstract, "Comparison of Nutritional Content of Prescription vs Nonprescription Prenatal Vitamins" at the upcoming 2019 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting in Nashville. The students conducted their…

Rachell A. Ekroos (Nursing) and colleague Sarah E. Shannon (Montana State University) are authors of a paper,  "Forensic Medical Examinations: Imagining Justice," accepted for publication in the Journal of Forensic Nursing. The paper explores underlying assumptions that may contribute to disparate practices and inequalities regarding forensic…

David F. Damore and Michelle Keunzi (both Political Science) are the authors of a paper, "Executive Turnovers in sub-Saharan Africa," that has been accepted for publication in International Area Studies Review. The paper applies competing risks duration analysis to data collected from 47 sub-Saharan African countries between 1960 and 2008, to…

Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) authored a chapter in the newest edition of An Introduction to Young Children with Special Needs edited by Richard Gargulio and Jennifer Kilgo (both from the University of Alabama Birmingham). This chapter describes intervention and instructional strategies to support young…

Hilla Sang (Libraries) was selected to present a study, "The Relationships Among Enrollment Characteristics and Charter School Closure: A Longitudinal Analysis of Ohio's Urban Counties Between 1998-2015", that she co-authored with Elizabeth Gilblom from the College of Southern Nevada, later this month during the third annual Conference on…

Jennifer L. Rennels and Stephanie A. Verba (both Psychology) recently published, "Gender Typicality of Faces Affects Children's Categorization and Judgments of Women More than of Men" in Sex Roles. Their research shows U.S. children aged 5 to 9 years manifest a better sense of what typifies female than male faces, which subsequently affects…

Erika Engstrom (Communication Studies) has just published her fifth book, Religion Across Television Genres: Community, Orange Is the New Black, The Walking Dead, and Supernatural. In analyses of contemporary television programming, she and co-author Joseph Valenzano III (University of Dayton) explain how the NBC comedy…