Dr. Paul Chestovich (Medicine) and Erin Breen (Engineering) sat down with the Review Journal recently to comment on the alarming trend of underreported pedestrian crashes near CCSD schools. Data tracking and reporting on these crashes leave gaps that the community would like to see addressed.

Angela Amar (Nursing) was re-elected to a second term for the American Academy of Nursing Board of Directors.

Jennifer Vanderlaan (Nursing), Jay Shen (Public Health), and Tricia Gatlin (Nursing) published a new article, "Outcomes of Childbirth Education in PRAMS, Phase 8" in the Maternal and Child Health Journal. The research explores childbirth education and better outcomes for maternal child health throughout the United States.  

Amanda Belarmino and coauthor Toni Repetti's (both Hospitality) recent article, published in the Journal of Foodservice Business Research, explores how adherence to COVID-19 government requirements and recommendations impacted restaurant customers' willingness-to-pay.    

On October 5-7, the National Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents held their annual summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Assistant professor Salazar Montoya (Education, LION) presented during a general session: "The National Committee Report for Professional Learning Growth and Development (PLGD)." She also presented with UNLV…

UNLV researchers add an important computational capability to a widely-used, open source software. Specifically, a summer undergraduate researcher working with Jason Steffen (all Physics and Astronomy), along with a graduate student and an outside collaborator, added the Yarkovsky effect to the REBOUND software. This is a force that affects…

June Cho (Nursing) recently published the paper titled, "Sociodemographic and Biological Factors of Health Disparities of Mothers and Their Very Low Birth-Weight Infants," with Lung-Chang Chien (Environmental and Occupational Health) in Advances in Neonatal Care, 22(5), pp. E169-181. 

Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has been invited to join the 2023 Emerging Education Policy Scholar (EEPS) cohort, a program run by the American Enterprise Institute and Thomas B. Fordham Institute. The EEPS program "brings newly minted Ph.D. scholars and Ph.D. candidates who have a keen research eye,…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Media literacy and partisan convergence across social network sites" in the Social Science Journal. This article argues that people with different partisanship tend to rely on different social media; this tendency, therefore, influences the spread of…