Dr. Jeffrey Cummings (Integrated Health Sciences), research professor in the Department of Brain Health and director of the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience, will serve as a keynote speaker during the Clinical Trials in Alzheimer's Disease conference in Boston, Massachusetts, on Oct. 24. Cummings has also been a co-…

Professor Mary LaFrance (Law) presented at the State Bar of Nevada Intellectual Property Law Section's Intellectual Property Law Conference. Her presentation was titled "Recent Developments in Trademarks and the First Amendment."

Professor Joe Regalia (Law) presented at the State Bar of Nevada Intellectual Property Law Section's Intellectual Property Law Conference. He participated in a panel discussion titled "Artificial Intelligence Use of AI in the Legal Profession: Professional, Ethical and Security Concerns."

Professor Nachman Gutowski (Law) presented at the Association of Academic Support Educators, Diversity Conference, at the American University Washington College of Law. His talk was on “Leveraging Partnerships and Relationships to Maximize Support for Students."

Yong Li (Management, Entrepreneurship, Technology), Lee Business School professor and research director of the Troesh Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, published the paper, "Entrepreneur Weirdness as a Double-Edged Sword," in Personnel Psychology, an "A+" journal on Lee Business School's SARS list. The paper is co-authored with Jun-…

Colleen Hall-Patton (Sociology) presented a paper at the American Quilt Study group titled, "My 'Christopher Columbus' Eleanor Beard Quilt," tracing the design elements of a 1930s quilt to a 1600s quilt. Eleanor Beard Studios employed as many as 1000 rural Kentucky women during the Great Depression while marketing to very high end clientele.

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues published a paper, "The development and validation of the experiential avoidance rating scale (EARS): A self-report questionnaire that might actually measure experiential avoidance," in Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science. 

Hikmet Loe (Art) was published twice in the international, peer-reviewed journal, Weber: The Contemporary West (Fall 2023, vol. 40, no.1). Both appear in the journal's subfocus, Art of the American West. The first, "A Conversation in Water and in Ochre: Where Hope Lies," is multi-authored with Nan Seymour and Elpitha Tsoutsounakis. The second…

Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies Program; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared in a documentary that examines the use of attack dogs in U.S. prisons, produced by the news site Insider.com. Parry provided historical context for the racist roots of canine-to-human violence, including the violent use of…