Notable: Spring 2023 BUS 103 Students
A spring 2023 BUS103 class, taught by John Starkey (Business), achieved remarkable success by raising a total of $5,001 to support six deserving local non-profits across the Las Vegas Valley. The following organizations were supported through this first-year seminar service learning project: Rubies LV, Nevada SPCA, Healing Hearts, Nevada…
Presentation: Levent Atici
Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research) co-organized and co-chaired a workshop for the Virtual Summit of the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU) on May 15, 2023. The session, titled The HSRU Potential for Increasing the Impact of Undergraduate Research on Hispanic Students’ Readiness for Success in Graduate School, was one…
Presentation: Daniella Etel Courban
Daniella Etel Courban (Fine Arts), part-time instructor, participated in a robust round-table discussion on the state of art in downtown Las Vegas and beyond. This aired live on KNPR's State of Nevada on May 15, 2023.
Grant: Jingchun Chen
An Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) Foundation grant for $100,000 was awarded to Jingchun Chen and her lab in the Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine on March 1, 2023, to study the impact of COVID-19 on Alzheimer's Disease, focusing on sharing genes and pathways in immune cells.
This will help with the investigation of the…
Published: Boran Kim, Jungsun (Sunny) Kim, Ashok Singh, Mehmet Erdem, Andrew Hardin
Boran Kim, Jungsun (Sunny) Kim, Ashok Singh, Mehmet Erdem (all Hospitality) and Andrew Hardin (Business) have published their study titled, "Factors Predicting Hotel Recommendations: A Comparison of Guest Feedback Before and After the Hotel Closures During the COVID-19 Pandemic," in the International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism…
Honors: LeAnne Salazar Montoya
Alpha Chi Omega national has selected LeAnne Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) for their inaugural Social Justice Institute. This institute is a national initiative to support, empower and educate alumni to assist them in preparing serve their communities.
Published: Manoj Sharma
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors associated with opioid addiction helping behaviour in tri-state Appalachian counties: Application of the PRECEDE–PROCEED model–cross-sectional analysis,” in the journal, BMJ Open (Impact Factor: 3.007), in…
Published: Arpita Basu; Lung-Chang Chien; Leigh Ann Richardson
Arpita Basu, Ph.D., MPH, RD/LD (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Lung-Chang Chien, Ph.D., (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Leigh Ann Richardson (Public Health), along with colleagues recently published, "Longitudinal associations of healthy dietary pattern scores with coronary artery calcification and pericardial adiposity in US adults…
Presentation: Gregory S Brown
Gregory Brown (History) delivered a paper titled, "The Transatlantic Beaumarchais Correspondence Network: Textual Corpus, Metadata, Social Network Analysis," as part of an interdisciplinary workshop on "Rethinking the Long Eighteenth Century" hosted by the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford University.
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