Cory Lampert (Libraries) and Alexis Young from the City of Las Vegas recently presented during the webinar, "Partners In Promoting Community Data Use: Collaborations with Libraries," hosted by the Civic Switchboard Project and National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership. Their presentation highlighted the decade-long partnership between the…

Adrianna Munson (Sociology) published “As Independent as Possible”: Competing Autonomies and the Quest for Adulthood in Theory and Social Inquiry. The article explores how staff and parents at an independent living program for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities navigate their competing definitions of independence.

Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) published an article with co-author Leah Ceccarelli (Unversity of Washington) titled, "Bad Arguments, Bad Science, and Bad Consequences: A Response to an Anti-Trans Keynote" in Argumentation. In response to an anti-trans keynote address given at the International Society for the Study of…

Alanna Bitzel (Writing Center) co-authored "How Region 9's Talk Stories Series Supports Professional Growth" with two advising colleagues, Michael Cersosimo of Loyola Marymount University and Maria Elisa Grandoné of the University of California, Irvine. The article was recently published, appearing in the March 2026 edition of…

Kristen Keach (Art) presented the paper, "From Fresco to Storyboard: Creative Adaptation and Experiential Learning in Renaissance Art History" at the 2026 American Association of Teachers of Italian in Rome, Italy.

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Development and validation of the Persian childbearing intention questionnaire based on the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) among women with only one child” in the Journal of Research Development in Nursing and Midwifery (Impact factor 0.29) in association with…

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Caregiver concerns about preschoolers’ overweight/obesity and undereating and their associations with feeding practices in China” in the journal Archives of Public Health (Impact factor 3.4) in association with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University…

Keith Shulman, Sharmistha Roy, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented three papers at the II. Çukurova International Congress on Social and Human Sciences held in Adana, Türkiye, between July 3-5, 2026, in co-authorship with Zain Akbar of Roseman University of Health Sciences and one in co-authorship with Daryl Traylor of…

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with GBD 2023 TB HIV Collaborators, coauthored “Global, regional, and national burden of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023” published in The Lancet.…