Marcela Rodriguez-Campo (Teaching & Learning) recently published a commentary article in Latinx Talk titled "Social Distancing While Brown." Latinx Talk is an online, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, and moderated forum for the circulation and discussion of original …
Dr. John Fildes, Dr. Michael Gardner, and Dr. Deborah Kuhls (all Medicine) have been recognized by Nevada Business Magazine as Healthcare Heroes for 2020. The awards are:
Fildes in the Lifetime Achievement category
Gardner in the Humanitarian category
Kuhls in the Physician category
They…
Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) was a panelist on the latest Tucker Center Talks podcast, a co-production with Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota. In this episode, Nicole M. LaVoi talks to three…
Qing Wu, Jongyun Jung (both Public Health), and Mira V. Han (Life Sciences) recently published an article on “Machine Learning Approaches for Fracture Risk Assessment: A Comparative Analysis of Genomic and Phenotypic Data in 5130 Older Men” in the journal Calcified Tissue International. The study…
Susan McLennon (Nursing) co-authored “Personal Road Map for Recovery: Examining the Therapeutic Use of Weblogs by Stroke Survivors with Aphasia," which was published in Disability and Rehabilitation.
Aidy Weeks (Libraries) been added to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Library Board, which provides input and feedback from academic and hospital librarians in the health sciences. She is the graduate medical education liaison library and collections manager at the…
Amanda Belarmino (Hospitality) wrote a chapter, "The Sharing Economy in Tourism Cities," which appears in The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities.
Philip Hyunbae Son, Ah Reum Yoo, Fiona Britton, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental) published their research, "Differential Effects of Methylisothiazolinone (MIT) on Dental Pulp Stem Cells (DSPC)" in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Medical Discovery. Son and Yoo both are students who plan to…
Helen Wing (Life Sciences) received her fourth consecutive R15 award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The $444,540 award is for the project titled, "Understanding Transcriptional Silencing & Anti-silencing Mechanisms in Shigella." Wing now has received a total of $1.6…
Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) and Michael Easter (Journalism and Media Studies) are the founders of the Public Communication Initiative, which has designed and launched a survey of Nevadans' climate attitudes. The survey was created in partnership with Gov. Steve Sisolak's climate…
Karyn Holt and Paul Clements (both Nursing) published a book chapter "Constructing Online Equity for Adjunct Faculty who Teach Across Geography" in the text Handbook of Research on Inclusive Development for Remote Adjunct Faculty in Higher Education. With growing national online enrollments in…
Dr. Joshua J. Goldman (Medicine) has worked with residents in the department of plastic & reconstructive surgery as contributing authors to the StatPearls initiative, providing high quality, PubMed-indexed review articles and board-style questions on aesthetic and reconstructive surgery topics…