Karyn Holt and Paul Clements (both Nursing) and Susan Aldridge of Drexel University have once again published an article in the online education arena, this time tackling the topic of mental health trends and issues in online educational environments. Their article, published in the Journal…
Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) recently published an article, "Episodic Memory in Later Life: Benefits of Prayer and Meditation" in the Journal of Holistic Nursing. The article examines the effects of prayer and meditation on the episodic memory or older adults.
Michelle Tusan (History) published a piece, "Impeachment, Executive Power and Genocide" in the Los Angeles Review of Books about the impeachment crisis.
Jennifer Jaimes, Mehmet Erdem, ChihChien Chen (all Hospitality), and William Doyle (Honors) recently published their paper "An Assessment of Generation Z’s Preferences for Guest-Facing Hotel Technologies" in the Journal of Hospitality. The exploratory study found that guest-facing technologies are…
Krystal Ramirez (Art) is exhibiting at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts through Feb. The exhibit, Whose Diversity, draws upon histories of the Latinx community in Minneapolis. She was inspired by Whose Diversity?, a collective of undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Minnesota…
Ashley Doughty (Art) is included in the College Book Arts Association Members' Juried Exhibition, Intersections: Book Arts as Convergence, at the Carroll Gallery at Tulane University through Feb. 6. It celebrates the crossroads, overlaps, conversations, and potential for shared experience and…
Jennifer Vanderlaan (Nursing) recently was appointed to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee for Nevada. This committee, which was established during the 80th legislative session, examines the state's mortality and morbidity rates among pregnant women and presents recommendations to the…
Jennifer Jaimes (Hospitality) received two separate Best Paper Awards from the Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium and UNLV’s Honors College for her thesis paper on “Influence of Guest Room Technologies on Generation Z’s Booking Decision.”
Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) was an invited speaker at the 2019 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Anaheim, California. Her talk, "A Lot of Nerve! Evolutionary Mechanisms of Neural Regeneration," presented her laboratory group's recent research studies on vertebrate…
Soumya Upadhyay and Kimberly Tomas (both Public Health) together presented the following papers at the 2019 American Public Health Association annual meeting:
Hospital cultural competence and financial performance.
Impact of perceived patient provider communication quality and perceived…
Kate Korgan (Graduate College) has accepted a two-year term on the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) Advancement Advisory Committee. This committee — comprised of deans from around the country — advises on the development of advancement priorities and strategies for meeting its goals, facilitates…
Yasmina Chavez (Art) will be exhibiting at the East Las Vegas Library until April 21. Her exhibit, "The Suchness of Light," is a presentation of abstract images that are self-referential and non-representational. As opposed to the photography we are most familiar with, which is light bouncing…