Monserrat Cristando-Romo and Caitlin Saladino (both The Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West) recently published "Child care is a daily puzzle Nevadans must put together to participate in the workforce" in the Nevada Current. Their op-ed discusses the imbalance between the need for quality child care and the supply of such facilities,…

Lincoln Johnson (Early Childhood, Multilingual and Special Education) presented at the 11th International Conference on Language, Literacy and Linguistics in Manila, Philippines on his research: "Exploring the Nexus of Language, Culture and Identity: Insights from Interdisciplinary Perspectives." He also won the Best Presenter Award at the…

Dr. Irma Corral (Medicine), interim associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, was recently elected as an advisory board member for the the Nevada Minority Health and Equity Coalition. The coalition’s advisory board is made up of academic and community partners that strive to champion…

Kara Radzak (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Shefali Christopher from Tufts University Seattle, Department of Rehabilitation Science, provided an invited talk, “Let’s hear it for the moms! A biopsychosocial approach to returning to sport postpartum,” at the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s Annual Meeting on June 26 in New…

Rian Satterwhite (Office of Service Learning & Leadership / Student Affairs) is participating in a small invited group to craft one of the next Carnegie elective classifications for the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Carnegie Foundation. Satterwhite recently participated in a working meeting in Atlanta, hosted by Morehouse College…

Kara Christensen Pacella and Nicole Short (both Psychology) with co-authors from Sanford Research, North Dakota State University, and University of Kansas published a new article, "Using Item Response Theory to Identify Key Symptoms of Insomnia in a Sample of University Students with Probable Eating Disorders" in Eating and Weight Disorders-…

Kathleen Thimsen (Nursing) published "Resilience, the 6th Vital Sign: Conceptualizing, Contextualizing, and Operationalizing All Six Vital Signs" as a co-author for Health, a Scientific Research journal. The study explores resiliency as the sixth vital sign, defined as the ability of the immune system to respond to attacks and defend…

The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) has awarded $57,000 in OUR Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program funds to 38 undergraduate researchers conducting research under an NSHE faculty research mentor.  The OUR Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program supports undergraduate students as they work on…

Professor Justin Iverson (Law) presented at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Conference on Promoting Access to Justice Initiatives in Rural Communities.