The Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy (NICRP) was mentioned in the article, "Leaving No Stone Unturned: Southern Nevada Health District" that is featured on CDC's "Stories from the Field" page. The Southern Nevada Health District's (SNHD) Office of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion is a CDC partner doing heroic…
Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) and Nick Paliewicz (University of Louisville) published a paper, "Of Markets, Masks, and (White) Men: Mimetic Performances of Parasitic Publicity During the COVID-19 Pandemic," in Women's Studies in Communication. The paper argues that the anti-masking and anti-vaccination subreddit community known…
Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) co-authored an article in Review of Education, titled, “A review of the methodological characteristics of vocabulary interventions for emergent bilinguals in preschool to sixth grade.“
Brittani Sterling's (Libraries) article, "Can't We All Just Cathect Along? ," was published in the WeHere publication UpRoot: a publishing collective that exists to center the works, knowledge, and experiences of BIPOC within the context of the library and archives community. It encourages interdisciplinary and intersectional…
Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published a multi-method study, "School‐based mental health supports COVID‐19:School professional perspectives," on how school mental health professionals' adapted service delivery to students during remote…
Patricia A. Heisser-Metoyer, Ph.D., (Psychology; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies; African America and African Diaspora program), was selected to participate in The White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans events in 2023. The initiative was created to strengthen…
John Haberstroh (History) has published an interview titled, "Making Monsters Beautiful: An Interview with Karen Dee Carpenter," in the Council for European Studies' online journal, EuropeNow. The interview explores Carpenter's (CSU Northridge) virtual reality opera project called "Beautiful Monsters," which retells the stories of famous ancient…
Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) recently published an article in The Journal of Mathematical Behavior titled, "The stories we tell: Why unpacking narratives of mathematics is important for teacher conocimiento," with her collaborators Rochelle Gutiérrez and Marrielle Myers, as part of their work on their Spencer Large Research Grant on…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has coauthored an article titled, “Diabetes Type 2 Risk Score for African Americans based on Jackson Heart Study data: A cross-sectional study,” in association with colleagues from Jackson State University in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. The article discusses the…

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