Lung-Chang Chien and Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented their research at the 2018 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta. Their presentation was about predicting zika virus infection outbreak by using meteorological measurements and identifying where vulnerable people lived in Colombia from 2015-…

Jarret Keene (English) presented at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. His paper, "Keep Your Swords Above the Mire!: A Reconsideration of the 1975 DC Comics series Beowulf: Dragon Slayer," argues that this obscure sword-and-sorcery comic book, written by then-college professor Michael Uslan (today…

Rachell Ekroos (Nursing) and Alexis Kennedy (Criminal Justice) hosted meetings with Ukrainian leaders representing government sectors, law enforcement agencies, social service providers, and non-government organizations as part of the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Program alumni include 19 current chiefs of…

Jennifer Gray, Anne Kingsley (both Student Affairs) and Wade Noon (UNLV Dining) presented at the national conference for the National Association of College Auxiliary Services in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Their presentation was about strategies for building successful partnerships outside of the written contract.

Ranita Ray (Sociology) just published her book The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City with the University of California Press.

Beth Mehocic (Dance) had her composition for solo cello, Somewhere Between D and C# recorded by Ovidiu Marenescu for a collection of new works titled Moto Bello. Moto Bello is the third collection in the Moto series recorded by Trio Casals for Parma Recordings on their Navona label. The album is due to be released in January.…

Reimund Serafica (Nursing) presented his research during two recent conferences. He discussed “Acculturation and Changes in Anthropometric Indicators among Filipino Men with Hypertension” during the 42nd annual conference of the American Association for Men in Nursing. Next, he shared results from his study titled “Adherence and Satisfaction of…

Ashley Tovar, James Navalta, Laura Kruskall, and Jack Young (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) co-authored “The Effect of Moderate Consumption of Non-nutritive Sweeteners on Glucose Tolerance and Body Composition in Rats,” which explored whether consumption of non-nutritive sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose altered body fat…

Donald Price (Life Sciences) is one of the authors of a research paper, "Mapping Genomic Scaffolds to Chromosomes Using Laser Capture Microdissection in Application to Hawaiian Picture-Winged Drosophila," that was published in Cytogenet Genome Research. His fellow authors are Lin Kang, Phillip George, Igor Sharakhov, and Pawel Michalak, all of…