Jayce Farmer (Public Policy and Leadership) published a research essay, “Water Utility Districts as Facilitators of Regional Climate Change Partnerships,” on the peer-reviewed Urban Affairs Forum. This essay centers water utility districts as a key factor for the development of regional climate change partnerships between local governments. Here,…

Stephen M. Miller (Center for Business and Economic Research, Economics) published an article, “Does real interest rate parity really work? Historical evidence from a discrete wavelet perspective,’ with Mahdi Ghaemi Asl, Kharazmi University; Giorgio Canarella, California State University Los Angeles; and Hamid Reza Tavakkoli, Imam Sadiq University…

Daniel Cheng, Jennifer Baynosa, Daniel Kirgan, Charles St Hill (Medicine), Chad Cross (Public Health), and Shelley Williams (Dental Medicine) published the paper, "Comparing the effect of distance to treatment facility on reconstruction and breast conservation therapy for early-stage invasive ductal carcinoma between the nation and the mountain…

Krishnakumar Nangeelil, Christina Hall, and Zaijing Sun (all Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) and their collaborator, Wesley Frey at the McClellan Nuclear Research Center of the University of California Davis, published an article titled, "Biomarker response of Spanish moss to heavy metal air pollution in the low country of the Savannah…

Assistant professor Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published his book, Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration (University of Texas Press). This book is the result of almost two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico (Oaxaca and Mexico City) and in the United States (California, Oregon, and…

Professor Doris L. Watson (Higher Education) has accepted a two-year appointment to serve on the editorial board for the Higher Ed section of the Education Sciences journal. Watson currently serves as a co-editor for a special edition of "Sustainable Higher Education: Centering Equity-minded Practices" for Education Sciences.

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's Ombuds Office. This post explores the importance of Ombuds Day, which is celebrated on October 13 this year.  For more information about the Ombuds Office, please visit its website, the Ombuds Week schedule of events, or learn "Why Ombuds Day…

Anthony King, Ting Tong, Danielle Le, Donna Sim, Aldo Barrita, Richard Chang, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) presented a research poster at the 23rd Annual International Center for Responsible Gambling Conference on gambling and addiction. The title of their poster was, "Cumulative Childhood Adversity Predicts Disordered Gambling and…

UNLV College of Fine Arts Dean Nancy J. Uscher has begun her term as president of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD). ICFAD is a vehicle through which members share information and ideas that enhance the leadership of deans and associate deans, provosts and associate provosts, university presidents and other arts…