Mary Blankenship (Chemistry and Economics) recently co-authored "From the George Floyd Moment to a Black Lives Matter Movement, in Tweets" with Richard Reeves of the Brookings Institution. They analyzed protest-related tweets between May 27 and June 4 to display the development of the Black Lives Matter movement. Blankenship is pursuing…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) joined a panel discussion, "Every Voice: Race, Protest, and Power in Las Vegas," organized by Desert Companion and Nevada Public Radio earlier this month. The panel included activists, artists, scholars, ministers, and politicians in Clark County, each discussing police brutality, race…

Ashley Doughty (Art) is participating in the #100DaysofDemocracy challenge @100daysofdemocracy. Her posts will use graphic design to make complicated voting details hopefully more comprehensible, and visually appealing. Follow @100daysofdemocracy so you don’t miss the posts, and also see the work of many other great designers.

Jennifer R. Pharr (Environmental & Occupational Health), Nancy L. Lough (Educational Psychology and Higher Education), and Angela M. Terencio (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently published an article on "Sociodemographic Determinants of Physical Activity and Sport Participation Among Women in the United States" in the journal …

Jennifer Culley (Libraries) gave a virtual presentation for the Association of College & Research Libraries titled "Merging all Acquisitions Functions into One Cohesive Unit: A Case Study at University of Nevada, Las Vegas."

Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) recently had five photographs included in the World Health Organization (WHO) Art Gallery exhibit in Geneva, Switzerland. Contributors to the exhibit were the organization's worldwide staff, past and present. (Prior to joining UNLV, Kilker developed early field prototypes for WHO'S Health for the…

Tarryn McGhie (Nursing) and UNLV alum Rebekah Piper, '07 BS Education, '09 Master of Education, '15 PhD Education, now of Texas A&M University-San Antonio, have published a chapter titled "Family Discussions of Race Impacting Children's PK-12 Schooling." This chapter was the result of a dual study in which discussions of race and literacy were…

Emily Budd (Art) is included in Stone Fruit Magazine: Issue 3, a zine on queerness and religion, centered on the theme of sanctuary. Stone Fruit is a submission-based zine centered on queer people's experiences with organized religion, faith, and spirituality. The goal of the publication is to present works that address issues with nuance, and…

Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently was awarded a 2020 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Sexual & Gender Minority (SGM) Early Stage Investigator Award for his research contributions to improving the health of sexual and gender minorities or individuals who identify as LGBTQI+. His NIH-funded research…