The College of Education's department of early childhood, multilingual, and special education attended the Council for Exceptional Children's 2023 Convention March 1-3 in Louisville, Kentucky. Across faculty and graduate students, they presented eight sessions about supporting students with disabilities and their families. Presenters included…

Asma Awan, Siddharth Raich, Miklo Alcala, Priyambda Kumra,  Anita Chatterjee, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented a  paper titled, "Mixed methods process evaluation for RQFSM Model for assessing disparity-related efforts in Nevada," at the 2023 Society of Public Health Education Annual Conference held in…

Sidath Kapukotuwa, Anita Chatterjee, Laurencia Bonsu, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented two papers titled, "Explaining the correlates of problem gambling behavior based on the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change among college students: A cross-sectional study," and, "A phenomenological study based on…

Anthony King, Shane Kraus, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) recently presented their research, "Examining the role of responsible gambling in associations between symptoms of trauma, gambling disorder, and gambling motivations: Results from a nationwide U.S. sample," at the 16th Annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling. This…

Kyaw Min Tun, Zahra Dossaji, Blaine Massey, Kavita Batra, Chun-Han Lo, Yassin Naga, Salman Mohammed, Abebe Muraga, Ahmad Gill, Dwaipayan Mukhopadhhyay, Ashok Singh, Daisy Lankarani, Jose Aponte Pieras, Gordon Ohning (all Medicine) published a study "A Comparative Study of Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis vs. Non-Alcoholic Hepatitis Patients from a Cohort…

Carrieann Cahall, Rosan Mitola, Chelsea Heinbach, and Amber Sewell (all Libraries) presented the paper, "Inclusive or Harmful? A critical content analysis of tutorial offerings from R1 academic libraries," at the 2023 Association of College and Research Libraries Conference.  

Senior student Caren Yap (Marketing and International Business) has been awarded the prestigious David Bohnett Public Service Fellowship to pursue a Master's in Public Administration for Public Policy and Nonprofit Management at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, one of NYU's premiere fellowship awards. Two…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) gave a talk about the history of the Sands casino, the subject of his most recent book, At the Sands, to a community group at the Spanish Oaks Historic District. The talk summed up the story of the famous Strip hotel, with a special emphasis on the important role of the Rat Pack. During and after his talk, residents…

Katherine Walker (English) published the article, "The Witch as Epistemic Spectacle," in Cahiers de Recherches Medievales et Humanistes — Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies. The article argues that Ben Jonson's witches are both possess embodied, occult knowledge and also teach audiences how to read the magical, the uncanny,…