Iesha Jackson (Teaching and Learning), Doris L. Watson (Educational Psychology and Higher Education), Marcie Gallo (History), and Claytee White (Oral History Center) gave their second of two peer review presentations on their collaborative project, Digging Deep and Branching Out: Using Oral History and Collaborative Inquiry to Explore Candidate…

Lidio Lima de Albuquerque, Milan Pantovic, Katherine Fischer, Sharon Jalene, and Brach Poston (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Science), Mitchel Clingo (Medicine), and Merrill Landers (Physical Therapy), along with Zoltan Mari of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center, wrote "An Acute Application of Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current…

Mary Whitehead (Student Diversity and Social Justice) recently presented on "Navigating Microaggression, Racist Incidents & Racial Trauma in the Workplace" at the Women in Leadership Symposium - Telling HERstory.  In honor of the Women's Bureau Centennial, the bureau is encouraging leaders to tell their story by participating in…

Allyson Hindle (School of Life Sciences) received a grant, "Epigenetic pathways to regulate homeostatic resilience: Model-based discovery of rules across diverse mammals," from the National Science Foundation and its Rules of Life Mechanism. The total collaborative grant is for five years and $3 million with UNLV receiving $884,080…

Cyndi Shein, Sarah Jones, Tammi Kim, and Karla Irwin (all Libraries) had an article, "Perspectives and Practices: Archival Processing Metrics Survey Findings," published in The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies.

Katrina Liu (Teaching and Learning) recently published a book, "Critical Reflection for Transformative Learning," at Springer.  The book provides a research-based guide to using ePortfolios to develop critically reflective teachers capable of transformative learning for educational equity. It begins with a conceptualization of critical…

Patricia Heisser Metoyer (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies and Psychology) has been selected to participate in the Television and Motion Picture Academy's Faculty Seminar this month. She will be participating in the virtual Connecting the Classroom with the Television Industry conference along with media educators and…

Yvonne Houy (Fine Arts) will lead College of Fine Arts faculty in presenting an online design charette at the a2ru 2020 National Conference this month. The presentation, Transforming Online Learning Tools through the Arts: A Transdisciplinary Charette, also has been accepted for the Association of American Colleges & Universities  annual…

June Cho (Nursing) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published the article " Prenatal Glucocorticoid Treatment Completeness and Steroid Hormonal Levels as Related to Infant and Maternal Health" in The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing.

Jason Flatt, Francisco Sy, Chad Cross (all Environmental and Occupational Health), Timothy Bungum, and Sheniz Moonie (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics), along with Jennifer Keeley, '19 Master of Public Health, and Karen S. Gutierrez, '17 BS Biology,  recently published an article on "Mental Health Disparities among Sexual Minorities"…

Aidy Weeks, Kathryn Houk, Ruby Nugent, Mayra Corn, and Mellanye Lackey (all Libraries) had an article, "UNLV Health Sciences Library’s Initial Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: How a Versatile Environment, Online Technologies, and Liaison Expertise Prepared Library Faculty in Supporting Its User Communities," published in the journal Medical…

Dustin Davis and Arpita Basu (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently collaborated with Jeannette Crew, Dr. Petar Planinic, and Dr. James Alexander (all Medicine) to publish a comprehensive review in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Their review examined the last 20 years of observational and…