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John "Skip" Crooker, Qingmin Shi, and Celeste Calkins (all Decision Support) recently co-presented “Instructors’ Grading Practices and Student Evaluations of Teaching” at the annual virtual conference of the Rocky Mountain Association for Institutional Research. This study examines how student evaluations of teaching (SET) are related to…
Published: Emir Malikov
Emir Malikov (Economics), together with Ruiqing Miao and Jingfang Zhang, both of Auburn University, coauthored an article, "Distributional and Temporal Heterogeneity in the Climate Change Effects on U.S. Agriculture," that has been accepted at the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. The paper provides new…
Published: Katherine Marçal
Katherine Marcal (Social Work) published an article, "Demographic and Socioeconomic Predictors of Behavioral Trajectories from Age 3 to 15: A Longitudinal Mixed Effects Approach," in the Journal of Child and Family Studies. This study used a large, nationally representative sample of at-risk families to investigate the effects of a range of…
Published: David Damore, Robert Lang, and Karen Danielsen
David Damore (Political Science), Robert Lang (Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute), and Karen Danielsen (Public Policy and Leadership) published Blue Metros, Red States: The Shifting Urban-Rural Divide in America's Swing States (Brookings Institution Press). The book, which includes contributions from William Brown (Brookings Mountain…
Honors: School of Nursing Students and Faculty
Five School of Nursing undergraduate students, Vanessa Baragan, Kyle Soto, Alexandria Fuzzard, Iris Martinez, and Karen Nava, and one alumna, Heather Shawcross, ('20 BSN) were recognized as Rising Stars at the Nevada Nurses Foundation's Shining Stars of Nursing in Nevada gala. The students were honored for their nursing accomplishments in the…
Honors: Peter Michel
Peter Michel (Libraries) has been awarded a City of Las Vegas Historic Preservation Commission Annual Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation. He was selected for the award for his "tireless efforts to curate and preserve historical collections of manuscripts, architectural renderings, maps, and other materials that document the…
Grant: Jefferson Kinney and James Hyman
Jefferson Kinney (Brain Health) and James Hyman (Psychology) received a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Aging to continue the research examining the link between Type II diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. The grant will support them as they continue to investigate the mechanisms underlying Type II diabetes…
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Dr. Richard Baynosa and Dr. Joshua Goldman (Medicine) are featured speakers during the Nevada Cancer Coalition's Cancer Survivorship Series in October. The plastic surgeons' presentations include "Addressing the Needs of Breast Cancer Survivors Post Mastectomy" and "Solving the 'Unsolvable' Problems Post Mastectomy — Treating Lymphedema…
Published: Sutirtha Chatterjee, Andrew Hardin, and Greg Moody
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