Brittani Sterling, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies Librarian, (Libraries) was the invited keynote speaker of The Innovative Library Conference (TILC) 2023. Her address discussed the importance of academic librarians utilizing their unique positions as third space facilitators, scholar practitioners, and community…

Linda Dam (Journalism and Media Studies) and Natalie Pennington (CSU Fort Collins) have published an article titled, "Social interaction, support preferences, and the use of wearable health trackers," in Frontiers in Communication. The study assessed how social factors relate to reported weekly use and behavioral intentions toward the use of…

Richard R. Rosenkranz and Sara K. Rosenkranz (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues at Kansas State University, recently published "Recovery Phase Nutrition and Insulin Strategies for a Collegiate Distance Runner with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: A Case Study" in the journal Sports.

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's Ombuds Office. The post titled "Why I’m Not the Ombudsman" explains the adoption of the non-gendered term "Ombuds" to describe those in the profession. For more information about the Ombuds Office, please visit their website.  

Justin Iverson (Law) presented this week at the Nevada Library Association's 2023 Annual Conference on "Jailhouse Librarian: Services to Incarcerated Individuals" and "Legal Books & Materials Required in Every County Under NAC 380.010: Are These Requirements Still Necessary?". 

Shashi Nambisan (Transportation Research Center and Civil Engineering) presented "A Preliminary Analysis of the Electric Vehicles Charging Infrastructure in Nevada" during the 2023 Fall Transportation Conference held on Nov. 1-2 at the Tuscany Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The presentation summarized the state of the charging infrastructure…

Barbara Lewis, (Public Health) co-wrote an article, "Nothing About Patients, Without Patients: More Than Just a Catchy Phrase!" which was published in The Permanente Journal.

Whitney Elks, Declan Feery, Brisa Escobedo, Kavita Batra, Charles St. Hill, Ovunc Bardakcioglu (all Medicine) presented their study "Socioeconomic Status and Race Remain Predictors of Surgical Management of Stage I-III Invasive Rectal Adenocarcinoma Across US Regions" in a Scientific session at the Western Surgical Association Annual Meeting.…

Last week, Publishers Weekly ran online (and in print) Jarret Keene's (English) "soapbox" column, "Make Humanities Fun Again," on expanding the canon in English departments and reintroducing a sense of bright wonder to the humanities. Jarret's dystopian adventure novel Hammer of the Dogs is set in post-apocalyptic Las Vegas and is available at…