Rebecca Gill (Political Science), with co-editors Nuno Garoupa and Lydia Tiede, have published High Courts in Global Perspective: Evidence, Methodologies, and Findings in the University of Virginia Press "Constitutionalism and Democracy" series.  High Courts in Global Perspective pulls back the curtain on the interlocutors of…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published Ética, Política, y Migración (UACJ Press), which she co-edited with Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda and Roberto Sánchez Benítez. This open access book is one of the first Spanish-language texts to deal with immigration ethics as a central topic, and it foregrounds ethical issues of particular concern…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published an op-ed, "The Texas Ban and Migration Injustice," in Ms. Magazine.

Dr. Christina Demopoulos, Melissa Argueta and Elyana Smith (all Dental) hosted information tables during five back-to-school community events between July 23 and August 21. The events, sponsored by several organizations including City of Las Vegas and UNR Extension, were held at the Windmill Library, Iglesia Evangelica Nueva Jerusalem Church…

Anne Savage (Art) and Lauren Paljusaj (English) have installed their planned photographic research exhibition in the display cases outside Special Collections entrance on the Library's third floor. "Intimate Nevada" reflects on the hisotry of Southern Nevada through photographs of early settlers and architecture. Accompanying content to the…

Kathryn Houk (School of Medicine Library) has earned the Level 2 Consumer Health Information Specialization from the Medical Library Association. The credential demonstrates a commitment to offering quality consumer health information services and to staying current with developments in consumer health information resources,…

Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) co-authored a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with collaborators from New York University, Princeton University, and Oxford Nanopore Technologies.  Their paper, "Ancestral polymorphisms shape the adaptive radiation of Metrosideros across the Hawaiian Islands" presents the…

Melissa Argueta (Dental) received a 2021 Mars Wrigley Foundation’s Healthier Smiles Grant of $5,000 from the American Dental Hygienists’ Association Institute for Oral Health. She will use the funds to expand the local Early Childhood Caries Prevention Project, which aims to reduce the number of cavities among children by the time they enroll in…

Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business) published her paper entitled "Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way: Synthesizing Creativity, Contagious Motivation, and Unique Projects Into the Course Experience" in the Journal of Marketing Education. The goal of this study is to examine relationships between creative divergent…

  Brittani Sterling (Libraries) presented at the 11th Annual National African American Librarians Conference hosted by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. First, the panel, "Identity Politics: The Weightiness of Black Womanhood in LIS" used the lens of Kimberle Crenshaw's 1989 definition of the term…

Ryan Wirt, Lauren Crew Andrew Ortiz, and Emmanuel Flores (all Neuroscience), Jefferson Kinney (Brain Health), and James Hyman (Psychology) published an article in Communications Biology entitled "Altered theta rhythm and hippocampal-cortical interactions underlie working memory deficits in a hyperglycemia risk factor model of Alzheimer’s…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) presented two of her research projects, "Exposure to a mixture of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) during pregnancy and maternal cardiometabolic health: the HOME Study" and "Associations of neonicotinoids with insulin and glucose homeostasis parameters in US adults: NHANES 2015-2016" at the…