UNLV American Marketing Association Student Chapter (Marketing and International Business) recently competed in the American Marketing Association's annual collegiate international case competition and tied for second place alongside University of Pennsylvania and British Columbia…
Andrew Thomas Reyes, Judzia Bombard, and William Gangozo (all Nursing), Tirth Bhatta (Sociology), and Venkatesan Muthukumar (Electrical & Computer Engineering), published an article, “Promoting Resilience Among College Student Veterans Through an Acceptance-and-Commitment-Therapy App: An…
Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) has a chapter in the forthcoming volume, Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity. Her chapter, "The Reworking of Evangelical Christian Ecocultural Identity in the Creation Care Movement," explores how creation care members refigure…
Chelsea Heinbach and Rosan Mitola (both Libraries) received a $2,000 Library Census Equity Fund mini-grant from the the American Library Association and Capital One to bolster University Libraries' effort to support census efforts in hard-to-count communities and help…
Qing Wu and Xiangxue Xiao (both Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article, "Association Between a Literature-based Genetic Risk Score and Bone Mineral Density of African American Women in Women Health Initiative Study," in the journal Osteoporosis International.…
Zantana Ephrem (Honors) has been selected for the 2020 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Summer Enrichment Program following a highly competitive nationwide selection process. Funded by the U.S. Department of State and managed by Howard University, the program supports extraordinary…
Angela Amar (Nursing) recently was appointed by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) to serve on its Government Affairs Committee. The committee works toward advancing the AACN's federal policy agenda. The AACN is the national voice for academic nursing. It works to establish…
Aidy Weeks (Libraries) had an article, "I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means: How COVID-19 Systematic Reviews Don’t Fit the Mold," published in MLAConnect from the Medical Library Association. The article discusses how the rush of systematic reviews, normally a lengthy process…
Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) published an invited commentary in the Journal of Nutrition on the role of culinary spices in reducing inflammation associated with cardiovascular disease. The commentary involved a recent article published in the same journal that showed a high…
Blanca Rincon (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) recently published an article, "Anchoring Comunidad: How First- and Continuing-Generation Latinx Students in STEM Engage Community Cultural Wealth," in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
Beth Hock, Jocelyn Allen, Kaylie Humphreys, Mary Nara, and Teresa Praus (all Nursing) recently earned their doctor of nursing practice (DNP) degrees.
Hock's DNP project was "Creating a Structural Empowerment Culture: A Professional Development Module for the Novice Nurse Leader."
Allen's…
Karen E. Callahan (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article, "Cancer Mortality Among US Blacks: Variability between African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and Africans" in the journal Cancer Epidemiology.
Aggregation of all black populations in U.S. cancer mortality…