Arpita Basu and Brian Schilling (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) together with Gabriela Buccini (Public Health), Anne Linsday (UNR Extension) and Ph.D. candidate Macy Helm (Integrated Health Sciences) published a comprehensive systematic review on the role of dietary polyphenols as bioactive compounds in the glycemic control of…
Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) accepted an invitation to present "Red White and Urgent: The Clinical Warning Signs of Oral Cancer" during the national Academy of General Dentistry annual meeting last month. She discussed the steps of performing a comprehensive oral examination, identified risk factors, highlighted clinical features of oral cancers and…
Jeff Schauer (History) presented work at the European Congress of Conservation Biology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Based on archival research in the National Archives of Zambia and the Natural History Museum (London), Schauer argued that critical qualitative historical analysis of the processes by which conservationists…
Lori Johnson’s (Law) article, Redefining Roles and Duties of the Transactional Lawyer: A Narrative Approach, was included in the 15th volume of the Legal Writing Institute’s Monograph Series. The new volume explores the intersections of ethics, professional responsibility, social justice, storytelling, and generative artificial intelligence…
Alanna Bitzel (Writing Center) appears in "Publishing Your Advising Expertise," the newest episode of the Adventures in Academic Advising podcast. She and co-authors Sarah Bechtel and Melissa Cumbia of Virginia Tech explore how academic advisors can transform their expertise into meaningful scholarship through publishing and…
John Curry (History) presented a paper entitled "The Hagiography of Ünsi Hasan Efendi (d. 1723) as a marker of socio-cultural shifts in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire" at the 26th meeting of the CIÉPO (Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes) Symposium, held in Varna, Bulgaria. His paper was part of a panel entitled…
Melissa Bowles-Terry (Libraries) is the co-author of a chapter, "Caregiving and Academia without a Filter: When a Pandemic Made Invisible Dependents Visible", in the new book, Academic Chutes & Ladders: The Hidden Curriculum That Makes or Breaks Academic Careers, published by Bloomsbury.  
Drew Simshaw (Law) has been appointed to the Legal Writing Institute’s Artificial Intelligence Committee.
Professor Roberto Lovato (English) wrote a feature length article for the Golden Goal titled "The Soccer Wars," which explores the relationship between futbol, conflict and the politics of empire at play in the World Cup.

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