Rachel Torres and Elizabeth Maltby (both Political Science) had a peer-reviewed article published in Journal of Public Policy.  Abstract: "Previous scholarship has shown that experience with public policies can affect citizens’ willingness to participate in politics. However, few studies have examined whether the effect of experience with…

Bryan Bledsoe (Medicine) was invited to give presentations about trauma resuscitation science at the 2023 Annual International McSwain Symposium, Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, and International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) in Houston, Texas.

Merika Charupoom (Medicine), Nicole Bacani (Medicine), Emily Strickler, Laura K. Gryder (Academic Affairs), Kavita Batra (Medicine), and Deborah A. Kuhls (Medicine), presented their study titled, "Non-Adjudicated Speeding Citations In Nevada: A descriptive analysis of speeding violations in Nevada from 2018-2020," at the 151st Annual Meeting of…

Merika Charupoom (Medicine), Nicole Bacani (Medicine), Emily Carter (Medicine), Emily Strickler, Laura K. Gryder (Academic Affairs), Kavita Batra (Medicine), and Deborah A. Kuhls (Medicine), presented their study titled, "Injury Inequity Among Nevada Pedestrians: Assessment Using Measurements of Community Needs," during the American Public Health…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) participated in a panel discussion for the seminar on "Theories of Decoloniality and Mobility in Central America and the Caribbean" at Toronto Metropolitan University. The event was part of the Rights of Children and Youth Partnership: Fortalecimiento de la Colaboración en las Américas. 

The Philosophy Department of the University of Bucharest (Romania) hosted a four-day workshop that consisted of a guided discussion of Russ Hurlburt’s (Psychology) book Describing Inner Experience? (MIT, 2007, with UC Riverside professor Eric Schwitzgebel). Hurlburt made a meet-the-author Q&A appearance via Zoom during the final hour of the…

Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine) and other leaders of the Committee on Trauma provided an update on firearm injury prevention efforts at the American College of Surgeons' (ACS) annual Clinical Congress in Boston, Massachusetts. The ACS considers firearm injuries a public health issue and since 2018, when firearm deaths — including both suicides and…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) gave an oral presentation titled, "Comparing the social vulnerability index for COVID-19: Adopting a novel approach and analyzing spatial associations," on Nov. 14 at the 2023 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a poster titled, "Assessing COVID-19 vaccination accessibility in Clark County, Nevada," on Nov. 12 at the 2023 American Public Health Association Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.