Annaliese Grant (Sociology) recently published a book chapter titled, "Caring Through It: Mothers' and Daughters' Perspectives on Disability and Interdependence in Financially Struggling White Families," in the book, Disability and the Family: Challenges, Resources, and Resilience. Co-authored…
Candace Burton (Nursing) received the Grad Academy Champion Award from the Grad Academy in recognition of her commitment to UNLV graduate and professional students. Burton regularly supports students' professional and academic development through the Grad Academy. She will receive a conference…
Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) authored a study that uses autoethnographic data obtained from the authors to examine cultural (cultural perception of care, sense of familism, care reciprocity, and gendering of care), social (use of technology), and economic factors (role of remittance) and their…
Margaret Harp's (World Languages and Cultures) modern English translation of Jacques Yver's Le Printemps d'Yver, Jacques Yver's Winter's Springtime, has been published by Amsterdam University Press.
Tara McManus (Communication Studies) and co-author Courtney Rilinger (Park University) published the paper, "The Influence of Attributions, Emotions, and Sexual Health Knowledge on Support Provision to Friends with Sexual Health Uncertainties," in the journal Health Communication. The results…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Feminist Antifascism in the Writings of Verónica Gago" as part of the panel "Philosophy of Social Movements" at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting in New York City.
Professor Nancy Lough (Intercollegiate and Professional Sport Management) was an invited panelist on the State of Women's Sport at the Sport Marketing Association conference in St. Louis, Missouri. She was joined by women from the NCAA Women's basketball committee, WNBA president, Washington…
The Jean Nidetch Care Center at UNLV receives significant federal grant from the Office on Violence Against Women. The grant, totaling approximately $400,000, will be instrumental in advancing our power-based violence prevention and response initiative, enabling the Care Center to make a profound…
Nataliyah Tahir, Sophie Ahmad, Kavita Batra, Ashok Gupta and Kenneth E Izuora (all Medicine) published an abstract "Assessing The Relationship Between Oral Health And Bone Disease Among Post-menopausal Women" in Journal of the Endocrine Society. Tahir and Ahmed are medical students.
Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) published an article "A Love Letter to Women, Femme, and Nonbinary Critical Scholars of Color: Theorizing the Four I’s of Love in SiSTARhood" with her colleagues. Rochelle Gutiérrez and Marrielle Myers in the Qualitative Inquiry journal.
Linda Lister (Music) had her song "Ariel Ambitions," from the song cycle Pleas to Famous Fairies, performed at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Soprano Hannah Winston sang the song on the concert Peabody Songbook Series: A Woman's Point of View.
Kelly Tseng, an associate professor in the School of Life Sciences with a secondary appointment at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, has been awarded one of the 2023 Rosalind Franklin Society Awards in Science from the Rosalind Franklin Society. These prestigious annual awards were started in…