Carlos Tkacz (English, PhD student) published an article in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. '“Not the End of the Trail:” Violence, MMIW, and Environment in Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians" examines how Jones engages with the conventions of the horror genre and mobilizes Native slipstream…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) was elected to serve as the president-elect on the Nevada Public Health Association's Executive Board. The mission of NPHA is to serve as the voice for public health in Nevada in order to improve health and achieve equity in health status. Batra's work related to the COVID-19 surveillance (during her role as the…

Jungnam Kim (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published the manuscript “Black males and school counselors: Do they experience the culture in counseling programs and departments differently from Black females?” in the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. She worked alongside colleagues (Julia Bryan and…

Jungsun (Sunny) Kim, Mehmet Erdem, and Boran Kim (Hospitality) published their study titled, "Adoption of in-room voice assistants: a cross-cultural study," in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights. The research team collected data from U.S. and Singapore to examine cultural differences in customer acceptance of in-room virtual…

Neamat Hassan (Dental) was recently appointed as guest editor for a special issue titled, "3D Printing and Restorative Dentistry," in the Dentistry Journal. This special issue aims to publish innovative studies exploring recent 3D printing technology to improve dental restorations’ quality by fabricating restorations with…

William Donati (English) recently published a new edition of his book Ida Lupino: A Biography (University Press of Kentucky 2023). The new edition celebrates the 27th anniversary of the book's publication. There is a new cover, new photographs, and a preface. Donati knew Lupino and had the opportunity to interview the famous actress and…

Roberto Lovato (English) appeared on the popular Bitchuation Room podcast, where he talked about, among other things, the role of trauma and forgetting in enabling fascism, writing a memoir about "unforgetting," and U.S. foreign and immigration policy

Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) has been awarded the Early Career Award by the Rhetoric and Community Theory Division of the National Communication Association. The award honors a current member of the division who has established an innovative and robust research project within eight years of having earned the Ph.D. degree…

LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Kristin Kew published an article that focuses on the testimonies of accomplished Latina school leaders, shedding light on their upbringing, familial responsibilities, generational poverty, and commitment to challenge the prevailing narrative and break…