Chris Ditzler, Amber Ford, and Michelle Chan (all Office of Online Education) recently presented a session at the Online Learning Consortium’s 2023 Innovate Conference. OLC Innovate 2023 provided an opportunity for online learning practitioners to share best practices, test new ideas, and collaborate on supporting, enhancing, innovating, and…

Norma A. Marrun, Christine Clark, Kendra Beach, Maryssa Morgan, Claudia Chiang-López, Cecélia González, and Omi McCadney (all Education) published a new article in Race Ethnicity and Education: Indifferent, (Un)critical, and anti-intellectual: framing how teachers grapple with bans on teaching truth about race and racism, and critical race theory…

Cameron Jensen (Mechanical Engineering) presented his research titled, “Linear No-threshold Model: A Collection of Studies on The Highly Debated Radiation Protection Standard,” during the International Nuclear Law Association’s (INLA) Radiological Protection Working Group’s Technical Meeting on April 21, 2023. Jensen shared a collection of studies…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Overturning Birthright Citizenship in a Post-Roe v. Wade United States: A Specter of Dehumanization" at the symposium "The Ethics of Birthright Citizenship: Latinx Perspectives," which was hosted by the department of philosophy and College of Liberal Arts at Penn State University.

On April 21, professor Roberto Lovato (English) delivered the keynote speech at Ithaca College's Distinguished Speaker in the Humanities Series. Past speakers include Salman Rushdie, Tony Kushner, Martha Nussbaum and Robert Pinsky.

An-Pyng Sun's (Social Work) article, "Gaming Disorder among Adolescents and its Treatment: Five Strategies," recently appeared in the National Association of Social Workers' ATOD (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs) newsletter, 2023 Spring/Summer issue. The strategies highlighted in the article include: 1. Consider gaming disorder a bona fide…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Why does Taiwan Identity Decline?" in Journal of Asian and African Studies. This article exploits 53 waves of survey in Taiwan to examine four competing theories on the decline of Taiwan identity. Empirical evidence supports the hypothesis of issue…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's ombuds office, discussing the recent release of the office's first quarter 2023 report.  For more information about the ombuds office, please visit its website.

Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a paper titled, “Community-based participatory evaluation of public health initiatives: a strategic gap analysis using the RQFSM (reach, quality, fidelity, satisfaction, management) framework,” at the 7th International Conference…