Mark Lenker (Educational Initiatives Department, UNLV Libraries) had an essay published in the journal Communications in Information Literacy. "Dwindling Trust in Experts: A Starting Point for Information Literacy" makes a case for centering library instruction on the public’s declining trust in experts. The recommended guided discussion…

LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has authored the CEDER Yearbook, a peer-reviewed book of educational research published by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's College of Education and Human Development. It is indexed in Books in Print, EBSCO's Education Research Complete, and EBSCO's…

Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) is a recipient of the Service Member Patriot Award, a recognition earned through the nomination of her doctoral student, Keishmer Cardoso, a captain in the National Guard. This distinguished award acknowledges the support provided by individual supervisors and bosses to an employee serving in the…

Dr. Jyoti Mago (Dental) presented a poster with Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) during the American Public Health Association meeting titled "Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and Threats Analysis of ChatGPT in Oral Health Education." The authors concluded ChatGPT has the promise to augment the oral healthcare…

Dr. Maryam Tabrizi (Dental) gave a presentation about geriatric oral health during the Gerontological Society of America annual meeting in collaboration with the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV NIHAN and University of Nevada, Reno Medical School ICECAP programs. Both programs are Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funded…

Dr. Tina Brandon Abbatangelo and Dr. Christina Demopoulos (both Dental) earned the 2023 Community Service Award from the Southern Nevada Dental Society for their exceptional dedication to bettering the health and the lives of Southern Nevada, and for going beyond the call to serve and enrich the dental community and the lives of her patients.

Postdoctoral scholar of Learning Analytics Sarah M. Wolff (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and fellow members of the research advisory board of the Pablove Foundation (a U.S. pediatric cancer nonprofit organization) recently published "A case study of charitable investment impact assessment" in The Journal of Philanthropy…

Graduate students Darrell Carter, Maddison Westcott, Ruth Boitel (Political Science), and assistant professor Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published an article, "Puppet Anchors and China’s YouTube Information Operation," in the Journal ofTaiwan Politics. This article tracks and analyzes more than 2000 "puppet anchor" machine-…

Associate professor Hyelin (Lina) Kim's (Hospitality) article, "Exploring the role of flow experience and telepresence in virtual reality (VR) concerts," was recently published in the Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing. Drawing upon the flow theory, the study investigates how implementing VR technology in live music concerts impacts…