Rajiv Kishore (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology), along with his co-authors Junjie Zhou and Ruochen Liao, received the “2024 Best Paper Award (Senior Category — Honorable Mention)” from the Special Interest Group on IT in Healthcare (SIGHealth) of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) for their paper titled “Aging…

Melva Thompson-Robinson (Nursing) co-authored "Barriers and Facilitators That Influence HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)-Prescribing Behaviors Among Primary Care Providers in the Southern United States" in Cureus, a medical journal by Springer Nature. 

Rebecca Benfield (Nursing) gave a podium presentation titled, “A Water Immersion Intervention for Symptoms of PTSD in Student Veterans: A Phenomenological Approach” at the prestigious Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science Research Conference in Washington D. C. This clinical intervention study included Co-Investigators Dr(s) Catherine…

The Department of Family and Community Medicine was awarded a three-year grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to continue the Nevada Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program (Nevada RESEP). Led by Laura Shaw MD, associate professor, Nevada RESEP provides free medical screenings, education, and…

Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning & Leadership; Student Affairs) attended the International Leadership Association's Future Forward Summit, hosted by the University of Colorado-Boulder. The event marked 25 years of the International Leadership Association and drew together leadership scholars, practitioners, and journal editors to envision…

Graduate student Simon Matin (Physics and Astronomy) was recently awarded a fellowship as part of the Nevada NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellowship program. This award recognizes Matin's accomplishments thus far and the strength of his proposed ongoing research work. The specific proposed project will simulate measurements of galaxies made with the…

Ben Farrer (Political Science) published "Assessing how energy companies negotiate with landowners when obtaining land for hydraulic fracturing" in Nature: Energy. The article shows the different tactics used by energy companies in order to get permission to begin horizontal drilling. More details are provided in some media coverage.

Dak Kopec (Architecture) published the 4th of edition of his authored work, Environmental Psychology for Design. The book explores questions with an in-depth look at psychosocial responses to the built environment. Awarded the 2006 ASID Joel Polsky Prize, the first edition served as an introduction to the discipline of environmental…

Lynn Wolfe (English Language Center) presented a virtual workshop at Faith Integration in the Academy Conference hosted by California Baptist University. The presentation was titled "Ethical Use of AI in Education." Topics discussed included potential uses of ChatGPT in an educational context, how to write an AI syllabus policy, and issues…