Melissa Argueta (Dental) received a 2021 Mars Wrigley Foundation’s Healthier Smiles Grant of $5,000 from the American Dental Hygienists’ Association Institute for Oral Health. She will use the funds to expand the local Early Childhood Caries Prevention Project, which aims to reduce the number of…
Kathryn Houk (School of Medicine Library) has earned the Level 2 Consumer Health Information Specialization from the Medical Library Association. The credential demonstrates a commitment to offering quality consumer health information services and to staying current with developments…
Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business) published her paper entitled "Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way: Synthesizing Creativity, Contagious Motivation, and Unique Projects Into the Course Experience" in the Journal of Marketing Education. The goal of this study is to…
Brittani Sterling (Libraries) presented at the 11th Annual National African American Librarians Conference hosted by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
First, the panel, "Identity Politics: The Weightiness of Black Womanhood in LIS" used the lens of…
Ryan Wirt, Lauren Crew Andrew Ortiz, and Emmanuel Flores (all Neuroscience), Jefferson Kinney (Brain Health), and James Hyman (Psychology) published an article in Communications Biology entitled "Altered theta rhythm and hippocampal-cortical interactions underlie working memory deficits in a…
Mingon Kang (Computer Science), Ji Yoo (Medicine), Brendan Morris (Electronic and Computer Engineering), Zhaohuam Zhu (Physics and Astronomy), Qiang Zhu (Physics and Astronomy), Mira Han (Life Sciences), Kazem Taghva (Computer Science), and Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering…
Nancy Lough (Education) published an article entitled "Pro softball fan segments: a two-step cluster analysis" in the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship.
This was the first study to determine specific market segments within professional softball. The author's…
Ann Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) presented two of her research projects, "Exposure to a mixture of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) during pregnancy and maternal cardiometabolic health: the HOME Study" and "Associations of neonicotinoids with insulin and glucose homeostasis…
Mark Buttner and Patricia Cruz (both Environmental & Occupational Health) received a 12-month, $1.25 million award through Nevada Health and Human Services to conduct molecular microbiological environmental monitoring and research.
Jennifer Vanderlaan (Nursing) co-authored a new article,"Association of Delivery Outcomes With the Number of Childbirth Education Sessions," published in The Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing.
Susan VanBeuge (Nursing) was elected as the Area 1 director to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing for a two-year term. The role of the area director is to represent a geographic area and the entire membership on the National Council State Boards of Nursing board of directors…
Cory Lampert (Libraries) lead a session, "Better Together: Creating Solutions To The Challenges Of Data Use, Reuse, And Sharing," at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institution World Library And Information Congress 2021. The session included case studies and creative…