Michael J Alarid (History) was named as a winner of this years College of Liberal Arts’ Diversity Award. This award is given in recognition for outstanding scholarly work. 

Alyssa Crittenden (Anthropology), vice provost for Graduate Education and dean of the Graduate College, presented at an international workshop on hunter-gatherer education at the University of Tromso in Norway. She was one of only two U.S. participants and joined colleagues from around the world, including Botswana, Cameroon, Namibia, Tanzania,…

Jay Shen, Betty Burston, Soumya Upadhyay (Healthcare Administration and Policy), with their collaborating researchers in China, recently published a paper, "Epidemiological/Disease and Economic Burdens of Cervical Cancer in 2010–2014: Are Younger Women at Risk?," on Healthcare. 

Buddha Dawn and Guangming Cheng (both Medicine) wrote an invited editorial in the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. In this article titled, “Myocardial regeneration and the enigma of the immune cells,” Drs. Dawn and Cheng discuss the complex and poorly understood roles played by various subsets of immune cells in cell therapy-induced…

Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing), Tirth Bhatta (Sociology), and Joel Snyder (Psychology) published an article, "The Primacy of Compassionate Love: Loneliness and Psychological Well-being in Later Life", in the Journal of Gerontological Nursing. The study provides evidence of the beneficial role of compassionate…

Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) received funding from the World Health Organization to develop a case study of the multisectoral actions of the Brazilian National Strategy to Prevent and Care for Childhood Obesity (PROTEJA). This case study will be part of the WHO Collection of Case Studies on Experiences of Multisectoral…

Jared Oestman (Political Science) published "Burden sharing in UN peacekeeping operations: Who deploys to violent locations?" in International Interactions. The article identifies which countries voluntarily deploy their service members to the most violent  locations within United Nations peacekeeping operations. The research…

Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) represented UNLV at Campus Compact’s Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN) meeting at the University of Minnesota. This is the first time UNLV has been involved with TRUCEN — a network of community engagement professionals from R1 universities across the country — after…

Via an interdisciplinary collaboration between UNLV's International Gaming Institute, department of computer science, department of psychology, and William F. Harrah College of Hospitality, Kasra Ghaharian published "Payments transaction data from online casino players and online sports bettors" in Data in Brief with co-authors…