Andrew Lugg (Political Science) and co-authors Manfred Elsig, Kirthana Ganeson, and Marine Roux have published an article, "Trade Agreements and the design of democracy-related provisions (TRADEM): The creation of a new data set," in The Review of International Organizations. The article combines manual coding and machine learning to measure…

Mary LaFrance's (Law) article, "Copyright, eBooks, and the Future of Digital Lending," was selected for inclusion in the 2026 edition of the Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts Handbook. The anthology is published annually by Thomson Reuters (West).

Simon Gottschalk (Emeritus, Sociology) presented the keynote address at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The title of his address was: "Mind, Self, and Algorithms: Symbolic Interaction with Bots."

Eve Hanan (Law) presented at the Nevada Judges of Limited Jurisdiction 2026 Summer Seminar in Carson City. Her session, titled "New Research, Best Practices, and Promising Initiatives in Misdemeanor Sentencing," reviewed the current landscape of sentencing conditions. The presentation focused on aligning constitutional limits and judicial options…

Shih-Chun "Steven" Chien (Law) and his co-authors, Justice Goodwin Liu and Ajay K. Mehrotra, have published their article, "The 'Bamboo Ceiling' in Law: Asian American Perspectives of Inequality in the Legal Profession," in the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

Amy Mathis-Leonard (Undergraduate Education and High-Impact Practices) presented with Tammi Perez-Rice (University of Texas, Austin) in a session during the 2026 Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics on June 17 to discuss Nevada’s Journey to a Statistics Pathway. The presentation was a summary of collaborative work between…

Emily Janes (Couple and Family Therapy) and co-authors at Texas Tech and Fairfield University recently published a manuscript titled "Maintaining Family Relationships After Religious Disaffiliation: A Grounded Theory" in Family Process. This article explores, from the perspective of disaffiliated individuals, how families are able to…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “TyG Index and Frailty as Composite Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Risk and Mortality Across CKM Stages 0–3” in the journal Metabolites (Impact factor 4.5) in collaboration with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University and Qatar University. The study…

Aya Shata represented her research team, including Arthur Soto-Vasquez and Dave Nourse (all Journalism and Media Studies), in presenting their paper titled "Generative AI in the Eyes of PR Practitioners: A Longitudinal Study of Evolving Perceptions, Practices, and Concerns" at the International Communication Association Conference in…