Barb Brents (Sociology) was quoted in Marketplace from American Public Radio in an online article "Sex Workers Say Anti-Trafficking Law Fuels Inequality" by Rose Conlon.
Guogen Shan and Carolee Dodge Francis (both Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored an article in Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science titled "Exact Unconditional Tests for Dichotomous Data When Comparing Multiple Treatments With a Single Control."
Margarita Huerta (Early Childhood, Multilingual & Special Education) and Tiberio Garza (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) published "Writing in Science: Why, How, and for Whom? A Systematic Literature Review of 20 Years of Intervention Research (1996–2016)" in Educational…
Tiffiany Howard (Political Science) recently published the "State of Black Entrepreneurship in America." The report evaluates the economic and entrepreneurial outcomes for African Americans in comparison to Black African and Afro-Caribbean immigrants, in order to provide a deeper…
Gwen Marchand (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) and co-editors Matthew T. McCrudden (Pennsylvania State University) and Paul Schutz (University of Texas-San Antonio) published Mixed Methods in Educational Psychology, a special issue of Contemporary Educational…
Katherine Howard, Karl Kingsley, Matthew Hunsaker, and Greta Barba (all Dental) published the manuscript "Differential MicroRNA Expression of miR-21 and miR-155 within Oral Cancer Extracellular Vesicles in Response to Melatonin" in the May issue of Dentistry Journal. Hunsaker and Barba are seniors…
Kathryn Houk (Libraries) is a lead author on a chapter about graphic medicine called "Comics in the Clinic" in the book, Comics and Critical Librarianship: Reframing the Narrative in Academic Libraries.
Jennifer J. Reed (Sociology) was featured in a story about her dissertation research in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "At UNLV, about 15 Take Vows in Marriage to the Earth." Reed was invited by the UNLV Student Sustainability Council to officiate a symbolic wedding to the earth ceremony,…
Clarissa Otoo (Hospitality), Zulma Arceo (Public Health), Caroline Farah (Teaching and Learning), Cambria Del Castillo (Theatre), and Camisha Fagan (Sociology and English) successfully completed their involvement in UNLV’s Grad Rebel Advantage Program. All five are undergraduates. The Grad Rebel…
Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) has published a book on how to have better climate conversations at the intersection of environmental attitudes and religious beliefs. Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics: Religion and the Environment is currently under…
Georgiann Davis (Sociology) is the author of the award-winning book Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis. The book was linked this week in a New York Times editorial titled "The Thin Line Between Surgery and Mutilation."
Kara Radzak and Graham McGinnis (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) received funding from the Far West Athletic Trainers' Association research grants program for their study, “Relationship Between Chronotype and Injury While Undergoing Time Mandated Physical Training.” The year-long project…