With colleagues from the UK (Imperial College, Bath University, Brighton University), Dan Wright (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published "Psychological influences on COVID-19 preventive behaviours and vaccination engagement in the United Kingdom and the United States: the significance of ethnicity" in Journal of the…

Darnelle Melvin (Libraries) received the 2023 Search Industry "Best Open-Source Project" for Wikiframe Visual Graph, which provides a search capability for Special Collections & Archives data stored on Wikidata.  

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's Ombuds Office, considering the difficult process of returning to regular operations after the December 6 shooting. The post includes links to UNLV Strong resources.  For more information about the Ombuds Office, please visit its website.…

Christina Perez and Lance A. Nelson (both Health Sciences) are presenting at the NACADA Region 9 Conference. Their recent research dives into the techniques for advising difficult students while maintaining personal health and well-being. Their presentation titled “Working Through the Pain: An advisor’s guide to breaking bad news” is a compilation…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) co-authored the article "Exploring Attitudes Toward “Sugar Relationships” Across 87 Countries: A Global Perspective on Exchanges of Resources for Sex and Companionship" in Archives of Sexual Behavior. This article collects survey from 87 countries and 110,000 respondents to examine…

Aldo Barrita (Psychology), and colleagues recently published in the top journal American Psychologist a methodological paper titled "A decolonial and liberation lens to social justice research: Upholding promises for diverse, inclusive, and equitable psychological science," proposing a lens rooted in decolonial and liberatory principles…

The Nevada Tobacco Control & Smoke-Free Coalition (NTCSC) members selected David Orentlicher (Law) as our Tobacco Control Elected Official Champion for 2023. 

The seventh edition of Disability Law: Cases, Materials, Problems was recently published with Ann McGinley (Law) as a co-author of this edition along with Laura Rothstein and D'Andra Millsap Shu.

The UNLV School of Public Health and University of Nevada, Reno's School of Public Health have partnered in committing $10,000 to support joint grant submissions, publications, community-engaged projects, contracts, professional presentations and training sessions. Dean Shawn Gerstenberger (Public Health) and UNR SPH Dean Muge Akpinar-Elci have…