Dr. Gregory Brown (Medicine) was awarded the "Science Award" from the International Association of Hypnosis Professionals at their 2023 Annual Symposium in October 2023.  

Jennifer M. Clark and Allen Gibbs (both Life Sciences) published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology titled, "Starvation selection reduces and delays larval ecdysone production and signaling." This research shows that changing steroid hormone production in larval fruit flies causes them to develop into obese adults. This work was part…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with Dr. Jagdish Khubchandani from the New Mexico State University presented "An overview of methodology and reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analysis" at an international event organized by the Global Center of Evidence Synthesis (India). This educational activity benefitted nearly 170 early career…

Claire Chen Xinning, Paul Cabugao, Max Nguyen, Daniel Villegas, Kavita Batra, Aditi Singh, and Mutsumi Kioka (all Medicine) published a study "Comparing demographics, clinical characteristics, and hospital outcomes by vaccine uptake status: A single-institution cross-sectional study" in the Medicine journal. Chen and Nguyen are the medical…

William Sipe (Honors College) recently published an article in the peer-reviewed journal Critical Studies in Media Communication. The article examines interracial dynamics within the Netflix series, Bridgerton, and argues that those dynamics reflect contemporary economic structures of authority and desire.

Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) delivered the Sixth Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture at Harvard Law School. In her talk, "The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Way of Life or Religion?," she argued that the Philosophy of Animal Rights counts as a religion for all legal purposes (e.g., First Amendment and Title VII purposes) because it satisfies the most…

Jichun Li (Mathematical Sciences) and his Ph.D. student, Li Zhu, published a paper, "Analysis and Application of Two Novel Finite Element Methods for Solving Ziolkowski’s PML Model in the Integro-Differential Form," in SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (the top journal in Computational Mathematics). They also published "A new time-domain finite…

In the Desert Companion article, "Doctors Disbelieve, Patients (and Care) Suffer," by Stephanie Forté, Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was quoted on the history of racial bias in medical education. In the article, Willoughby discusses the deep history of how gender bias in medicine became…

Bradley Wimmer (Economics) recently published an infrastructure policy brief with The Lincy Institute titled, "Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment in Nevada." His report explores how Nevada can benefit the most from the 2021 Infrastructure Investment Bill and American Jobs Act's Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program…