Noah Romero (Education, NV-EPIC) presented two lectures: Decolonizing pedagogies: Unschooling and Indigenous education and Unsettling teacher preparation through critical race theory, post-humanism, and subcultural learning to the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College in Amherst, MA.

In their article, "The Impacts of Employee Reviews and Employer Awards on Job Seekers’ Application Intentions," authors Yunxuan Zhang (Ph.D. student) and Cass Shum and Amanda Belarmino (both Hospitality) explored the effect of online reviews and best employer awards on organizational prestige and application intentions. The article can be…

Amanda Belarmino (Hospitality) examines the application of theory to two groups of literary tourists: members of literary societies and the general public in her article, Application of theory to literary tourism: A comparison of parasocial interaction theory and co-creation theory. Published in the Journal of Heritage Tourism…

Sidath Kapukotuwa, Anita Chatterjee, and Laurencia Bonsu (all Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a grant of $3,000 each for their proposal 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,” by the UNLV's…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) was recently invited to serve as an editorial board member with the journal Psychiatry Research Case Reports. The mission of this journal is to disseminate cutting edge knowledge in order to improve patient care and advance the understanding of mental illness. Batra has published several peer-reviewed articles related…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored an article titled, “Application of the multi-theory model to explain veterinarians’ intentions to use telehealth/telemedicine,” in the journal Veterinary Record, with authors from Lincoln Memorial University; University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; and University of Mississippi Medical Center.…

Siddharth Raich (Social and Behavioral Health) received the American Public Health Association (APHA) Cancer Forum's Inaugural Cancer Public Health Student Award at this year's APHA national conference. This award recognizes student achievement and passion in addressing cancer screening disparities and engagement with research and leadership…

Professor emeritus Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) co-authored an article, "National Testing: Academic Achievement of Career and Technical Education and Non-Career and Technical Education Graduates," in The CTE Journal.   

Jennifer Pharr and Emylia Terry (both Public Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) presented "Protective and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women in the United States" at the American Public Health Association Conferences in Boston.