Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a policy paper titled, "Making Nevada Schools Safer: The State of Empirical Evidence" in Policy Issues in Nevada Education, Volume 5, Issue 1. In the paper, Skousen reviews the state of the empirical literature on school safety and argues that while…

Buddha Dawn (Medicine) delivered the James Willerson Excellence in Science lecture at the North American meeting of the International Society for Heart Research and the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences in Winnipeg, Canada. His talk, “Regenerative potential of discarded materials,” was focused on potential therapeutic benefits of…

Jungnam Kim (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published the manuscript “The Role of School Connectedness in Mitigating the Impact of Victimization on Life Satisfaction” in the Professional School Counseling Journal. She worked alongside colleagues to examine whether school connectedness serve as a mediator in the…

Craig Schwartz and colleagues (Nevada Extreme Conditions Lab) were recently awarded two grants from the Department of Energy: 1.) Next generation solar cells probed at the interface with exceptional precision (PIE): Towards new device design – Summary: Generating solar energy via photovoltaic (PV) devices is one of the most promising routes…

Aaron Saiewitz (Accounting) has been named the inaugural recipient of the UNLV Accounting Alumni Fellowship. This new fellowship represents another significant sign of support, recognizing the importance of attracting, retaining, and supporting outstanding faculty who serve Lee Business School students and prepare them for their professional…

Arpine Mkrtchyan’s (World Languages and Cultures) abstract proposal titled, ‘’Les particularités des signes poétiques dans les textes littéraires,’’ was accepted by and presented at the 15th World Congress of Semiotics, an event organized by University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece in August 2022.  

Eve Hanan (Law) presented her research on Remorse and Restorative Justice at a national conference of the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys.

In the latest edition of The Community Psychologist (p. 26), the official newsletter of the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA, Division 27 of the American Psychological Association, Community Psychology), an announcement was made that featured the appointment of Renato "Rainier" M. Liboro (Psychology) as one of the six SCRA Research…

Stephen M. Miller (Business and Economic Research) and Heni Boubaker, Institute of High Commercial Studies (IHEC) of Sousse, Giorgio Canarella, (emeritus) University of California, Los Angeles, and Rangan Gupta, University of Pretoria, published: "A Hybrid ARFIMA Wavelet Artificial Neural Network Model for DJIA Index Forecasting" in Computational…