Alissa Cooley and Melissa Corral (both Law) published an article in the Nevada Lawyer about the intersection of Nevada guardianship law with children's immigration status, specifically Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. They are the UNLV Immigration Clinic's managing attorney and deputy managing attorney, respectively.
David Orentlicher (Law) published a commentary, "Accommodating Aid-in-Dying Safeguards for Patients with Neurologic Disease," in the American Journal of Bioethics. 
Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences) had his paper titled "Sparse Estimation in Finite Mixture of Accelerated Failure Time and Mixture of Regression Models with R Package fmrs" accepted by "The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science". The paper focuses on a novel Machine and Statistical learning method for high-dimensional data…
Sherry Bell and Renato M. Liboro (Psychology) published their article, "Training To Be A Community Psychologist In The Age Of a Digital Revolution," in the Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning. This article reflects on pedagogy and curricula that have shaped the field of community psychology, and reviews the…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science)  co-authored article, "The Multiverse of Taiwan’s Future: Reconsidering the Independence–Unification (Tondu) Attitudes" in Political Studies Review. Wang and others proposed a new measurement to capture the independence-unification preference among Taiwanese people regarding the China-…
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper (Comorbid psychiatric diagnoses and gaming preferences in US armed forces veterans receiving inpatient treatment for gambling disorder) in Addictive Behaviors. 
Dean Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine), vice president of health affairs, had his sixth book published. The Business of Building and Managing a Healthcare Practice, by Springer Publishing, is co-authored by colleagues Neil Baum and Jeffery Daigrepont. The book, now available on Amazon and other online sellers, provides ethical ideas and…
Jarret Keene (English) had his dystopian-adventure novel Hammer of the Dogs (University of Nevada Press, 2023) reviewed in the September 2023 issue of Vegas Cannabis Magazine. The book is hailed as "a hero's journey that pulls you in like a tractor beam and moves like laser show. Each chapter describes a place both familiar and futuristic.…
Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), director of the Intercollegiate and Professional Sport Management program and co-director of the Sport Innovation Institute was featured by CNN on a story discussing equal pay at the U.S. Open. This year marks 50 years of equal pay at the US Open, which serves as an…

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