Andrew Lugg (Political Science) recently presented his co-authored paper, "Connecting Regimes: Preferential Trade Agreements and the Management of the Intellectual Property Rights Regime," at the plenary session of the 16th Annual Political Economy of International Organizations (PEIO) conference in Stockholm, Sweden. The paper develops a theory…

Forth year student Gemma Lagasca (Medicine) will work with the Las Vegas Raiders, performing a one-month clinical rotation focused on primary care sports medicine. For the second year in a row, the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine is participating in the NFL's Diversity in Sports Medicine Pipeline initiative. These rotations…

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) published an article on "Prescription Painkiller Misuse in Hispanic and non-Hispanic Adults Ages 50 and Older: Trends and Correlates in a National Sample, 2015-2019…

Cass Shum (Hospitality) and coauthors recently published their paper "Kicking the Robots: The Roles of Transformational Leadership and Fear on Service Robot Risk Awareness and Robot Abuse Relationship" in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology. The paper examines the emotional mechanism through which employees' service robot risk…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by the Academia Sinica in Taiwan to have a talk on June 21, titled "How the Large Language Model (LLM) may help advance quantitative studies" In this talk, Wang shared the recent development of ChatGPT and Copilot and explained the advantage and limitation of their advanced data analysis…

LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented a session on diversifying the leadership pipeline for minority leaders at the 2nd Annual Voices for Equity Conference. Montoya's presentation focused on the crucial need for systemic changes within educational institutions to support and advance…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on informed informality, his blog that considers people, organizations, conflict, and culture, among other things. The post begins by considering what an installation at the Whitney Biennial can tell us about failures in communication, and ends with lessons learned from a 1948 children's book…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) was interviewed by KTNV Channel 13 about "Vets reminding pet owners about heartworm risks as more mosquitoes show up across Southern Nevada."  Messenger explains that in the last few years, Las Vegas has seen a massive uptick in mosquitoes, partially due to the weather.  The…

Joshua Coleman (History), Ph.D. candidate, presented a paper titled "Jicarilla Apache, Project Gasbuggy, and the Early Years of Fracking in Indian Country" at the annual conference of the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States at the University of Southampton, in Southampton, England. Coleman's research examined the connections between…