Danica G. Hays (Education) has been elected to serve on the Governing Council of the American Counseling Association. Hays, interim dean and professor of the College of Education, will represent the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling on the governing board, beginning her three-year term on July 1. The association…

April Ursula Fox (Graduate College), Graduate College curriculum manager, has been invited to present to an audience of curriculum specialists in universities and other organizations across the country and abroad during the Digarc U professional conference in March.  Centered around the use of technology and innovative processes,…

Shubhra Bansal (Mechanical Engineering) has received the prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop novel Pb-free and stable mixed halide-chalcogenide perovskite materials for high-efficiency solar cells. Pb-based organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells (HPSCs) have shown tremendous promise with a big…

Erika G. Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was featured on "The Art People Podcast." Learn about her passion for teaching, writing, social justice, and art. She discusses the importance of murals as public art for the Latinx community, the complexities of representation in media, and so much more.

Elizabeth Johnson (Anthropology) and Shelly Volsche, '13 BA Psychology, '15 MA Anthropology, and '17 PhD Anthropology, now of Boise State University, are authors of an article, "COVID-19: Companion Animals Help People Cope during Government-Imposed Social Isolation." The article was published in the journal Society and Animals…

Michael Wong, Dharini Bhammar (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), along with Nicholas Ross, '20 MS Exercise Physiology,  published a paper, “Respiratory and Perceptual Responses to High-Intensity Interval Exercise in Obese Adults” in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports…

Rebecca Benfield (Nursing) and coauthors Huaxin Song, Jan Salstrom, Melydia Edge, Denise Brigham and Edward Newton have published an article "Intrauterine Contraction Parameters at Baseline and Following Epidural and Combined Spinal-Epidural Analgesia: A Repeated Measures Comparison" in Midwifery. 

Ann M. Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) recently published an article, "Prenatal Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Neurobehavior in US Children through 8 Years of Age: The HOME Study" in the journal Environmental Research.  The objective of the study was to examine associations between maternal serum…

Angela Amar (Nursing) recently presented to the Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International. Her topic was entitled, "Graduating Socially Responsible Nurses." To view the presentation through that link, use the passcode: y*=iY6H&      

Xiangxue Xiao and Qing Wu (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published an article on "The Utility of Genetic Risk Score to Improve Performance of FRAX for Fracture Prediction in US Postmenopausal Women" in the journal Calcified Tissue International. The ability of the fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX) in discriminating fracture and non-…

Shekinah Hoffman and Itzel Alanis (both International Gaming Institute) published a review article, "COVID-19 and its Implications for Women In Gaming: Move Towards Regulation, Policies, and Culture Changes in the United States," in UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal. In this piece, the duo argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has made…

Angela Silvestri-Elmore (Nursing) was accepted into Sigma Nursing's new Academic Leadership Academy. The academy helps grow academy appointees on their career trajectories through leadership training. Additionally, Reimund Serafica (Nursing) passed the American Nurses Credentialing Center's psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner board…