Austin Horng-En Wang and Nadia Eldemerdash (both Political Science) published an article, "National identity, willingness to fight, and collective action," in the Journal of Peace Research. This article challenges the theory of mobilization, arguing that the calculation of the collective action will be salient among citizens without a…

John Starkey's (Business) BUS 103 - 1010 students (First-Year Seminar) from Lee Business School raised $4,164 this past semester for the following local nonprofits: SafeNest, Urban Underdogs, Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth, and Pet Partners of Las Vegas.  The following students spent the fall 2022 semester fundraising on-campus…

David R. Gruber (Communication Studies) has published an interview with Christof Koch in the Journal of Consciousness Studies. The interview examines recent developments in and challenges to the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness (IIT).

Graduate student Angelika Bazarnik (Hospitality) won the Nevada Hotel and Lodging Association’s Shark Pool competition on Nov. 30 at the association's annual technology conference. In a Shark Tank-style presentation, Bazarnik pitched her mobile application EVENT-IT. The app eliminates the challenges of onsite event management by removing…

Undergraduate students Mark DeWeese and Elizabeth Linstruth (Hospitality) represented the college at the Restaurant, Finance, and Development Conference in November. The students each received a $1,425 scholarship for participating in a panel discussion on how restaurants can attract and retain workers.     

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored a paper titled "Associations of gestational exposure to organophosphate esters with gestational age and neonatal anthropometric measures: The HOME study" in the journal Environmental Pollution. Organophosphate esters (OPEs) are developmental toxicants in experimental studies of animals, but…

Junggab Son (Computer Science), a corresponding-authored paper titled "Defensive Adversarial Training for Enhancing Robustness of ECG based User Identification" was accepted for presentation in IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). 

Brett Abarbanel (Hospitality, IGI) is speaking at the esports awards event LVL UP LAS VEGAS on Monday, December 12 at Resorts World. In a session titled, "The great esports monetisation challenge," Abarbanel will be talking about the role of betting in the growth of the esports industry.

A paper by An-Pyng Sun (Social Work), Hilarie Cash (reSTART Life), Lawrence Mullen (Public Policy and Leadership), and Cosette Rae (reSTART Life), "Factors Related to the Occurrence of and Recovery from Gaming Disorder: A Qualitative Study," was recently accepted to Technology, Mind, and Behavior (an American Psychological Association journal) for…