Rachel Torres (Political Science) and her coauthors Joseph Coll from Texas Tech University and Caroline Tolbert from the University of Iowa recently published "The unqualified voter: racial animus in support for voter qualifications" in Politics, Groups, and Identities. Their article examines the extent to which racial animus influences…

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) participated in the "PUBLIC CONFERENCE | Violent Intimacies: The Intimate Lives of Violence in Greece and Mexico," organized by Harvard University's Department of Anthropology, where he presented his paper on human-animal relationships in Mexico entitled: "Witnessing, Suffering, and Inter-Species Intimacy in…

The Jean Nidetch Care Center at UNLV receives significant federal grant from the Office on Violence Against Women. The grant, totaling approximately $400,000, will be instrumental in advancing our power-based violence prevention and response initiative, enabling the Care Center to make a profound difference on those impacted by sexual violence,…

Amanda Koziura (Libraries) is the co-author of a chapter "Disrupting Vocational Awe: Strategies for Supervisors to Identify, Counter, and Prevent Unsustainable Workloads and Unreasonable Expectations," published in the book "Person-Centered Management in Academic Libraries." This chapter gives practical advice for supervisors on how to reduce…

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) has been named Director of the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity. The foundation organizes conferences, conference sessions, and public lectures on the topic of creativity, and sponsors a pre- and post-doc fellowship program for scholars.

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) presented an oral pathology webinar for the Nevada Dental Hygienist Association titled "A Rainbow of Colorful Lesions and Diseases of the Oral Cavity.” Dr. Shah discussed how the color of an oral lesion can help guide diagnosis, noting, for example, most common white lesions can indicate keratosis or leukoplakia; red can be…

The Da Kine Lab (DKL) under the direction of H. Jeremy Cho (Mechanical Engineering) has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Members of the DKL have developed a new, faster way to capture water from the air. The students in the DKL include: Yiwei Gao, Areianna Eason, Santiago Ricoy, Addison Cobb, Ryan Phung, Amir…

Scott Jackson and Truman Rowley (both Accounting) recently presented research papers at the 2024 Accounting Behavior and Organizations Research Conference, held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Jackson presented two papers, the first entitled, "CEO Speech Rate Effects during Conference Calls" and the second entitled, “Nonprofit CEO Compensation and…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with researchers from Italy, published a study titled "The Work-Related Well-Being of Social Service Workers Post COVID-19 Pandemic: The Psychosocial Impact of Remote vs. In-Person Work" in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. The results offer valuable insights into managing relationships with users and…