Shane Kraus (Psychology) and Joshua Grubbs from the University of New Mexico recently published a paper, "Cryptocurrency and addictive behaviors in a census-matched U.S. Sample" in International Gambling Studies. 

Jared Oestmand (Political Science) and Tim Passmore from the Virginia Military Institute recently published an article, "Reliable Contributors? Leadership Turnover, Regime Type, and Commitments to Peacekeeping," in Foreign Policy Analysis. Their study examines the links between domestic politics and countries' voluntary troop contributions to…

Joshua Thomas (Music-Voice), first-year Artist Diploma candidate, was a winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition - Utah District on Nov. 4, 2023. He will next compete at the Regional level in Denver, Colorado, in February 2024. This competition was established to identify early career opera singers and provide development funding and…

Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented "Developing an understanding of women sports bettors" at the 20th Annual Sport Marketing Association conference in Tampa, Florida. The study was the first to interview women who bet on sports and explore their consumer journey.

Asma Awan, Siddharth Raich, Miklo Alcala, Priyambda Kumra, Anita Chatterjee, Laurenica Bonsu, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), presented their work, "Explaining social challenges in process evaluation for the second year of COVID-19 public health efforts in Nevada,"  at the 2023 People's Public Health Conference held…

Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) published an article, "Maintaining Tensions: Braiding as an analogy for mathematics teacher educators’ political work," with her colleagues Marrielle Myers (Kennesaw State University) and Rochelle Gutiérrez (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).  Myers, M., Kokka, K., & Gutiérrez, R. (2023).…

Gregory Moody (Business), the director of UNLV’s cybersecurity program, was interviewed by Fox 5 on the prevention of cyber attacks. Last week we learned hackers gained access to tens of thousands of students’ personal information when they attacked the Clark County School District. That information is coming from hackers, so we still don’t know…

Brittani Sterling, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies Librarian, (Libraries) was the invited keynote speaker of The Innovative Library Conference (TILC) 2023. Her address discussed the importance of academic librarians utilizing their unique positions as third space facilitators, scholar practitioners, and community…

Linda Dam (Journalism and Media Studies) and Natalie Pennington (CSU Fort Collins) have published an article titled, "Social interaction, support preferences, and the use of wearable health trackers," in Frontiers in Communication. The study assessed how social factors relate to reported weekly use and behavioral intentions toward the use of…