Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) published an interdisciplinary article, “Hoarding Disorder, Suicidality, and Treatment Modalities” in collaboration with Michael Kelson of Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine (New Jersey) in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. The article presents a case for a…

Erika Marquez, Courtney Coughenour, Maxim Gakh, Tiana Tu, Pashtana Usufzy, and Shawn Gerstenberger (all Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article, "A Mixed-Methods Assessment of Residential Housing Tenants' Concerns about Property Habitability and the Implementation of Habitability Laws in Southern Nevada" in the International…

Jennifer Kawi, Andrew Thomas Reyes, and Reimund Serafica (all Nursing) presented at the 33rd International Nursing Research Congress in Scotland. Their topic was about digital health care interventions in research used to evaluate clinical outcomes and how they apply to global nursing knowledge. The event’s overall theme this year was, “…

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…

Stowe Shoemaker and Amanda Belarmino (both Hospitality), along with Nasim Binseh, '22 PhD Hospitality, won third place in the annual Johnson and Wales Case Study Competition for their study, "Revenue Management and the Runnin’ Rebels: A Case Study of Willingness to Pay for College Sports." Belarmino will be presenting the study at the annual…

Christina Miskey (Libraries) and Allison Bailund (San Diego State University) recently co-authored the chapter "Virtual Spaces: Developing Experiential Learning Opportunities for Online Students" in the published ACRL book Learning in Action: Designing Successful Graduate Student Work Experiences in Academic Libraries.

Mark Buttner and Patricia Cruz (both Environmental & Occupational Health) received a 12-month, $1.26 million award through Nevada Health and Human Services to conduct molecular microbiological environmental monitoring and research. This project will support a doctoral student's dissertation research.

Kelly Tseng, (Life Sciences) is the recipient of a new sponsored research program with Provectus Biopharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biotechnology company. The project is to investigate and characterize the effects of Provectus' drug product on vertebrate tissue regeneration and repair.

Jennifer Byrnes (Anthropology) published a co-authored article, "A Child Left Behind: Malnutrition and Chronic Illness of a Child from the Erie County Poorhouse Cemetery," in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology with Jennifer Muller (University of Pittsburgh). This osteobiography describes a probable disease co-occurrence in a…

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…

Jenna Heath (Liberal Arts), Sam Leif (Summer Term) and alumna Kass Moore recently published "The Power and Perseverance of Liberal Arts Internships During COVID-19" in the International Journal of Smart Education and Urban Study. This study aims to show the early mixed-methods survey results from shifting an internship program within a…

Janson Trieu, Mark Chang, Vanessa Rojas, Neilmegh Varada, Yen Cao, Michael Anderson, and Nicholas Vogelzang (all Medicine) published "Lower Fracture Rates in Patients Treated with Radium-223, Abiraterone or Enzalutamide, When Given Concurrently with Bone Health Agents: A Real World Analysis" in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Genitourinary…