David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's Ombuds Office.  Called, "What Does an Ombuds Do (And How Do You Say It)?," the post provides a serious but not-too-serious explanation of what an ombuds does, and how the word is pronounced.  For more information about the Ombuds Office…

Bowen Liu (Mathematical Sciences) published an article titled, "Impact of COVID-19 on college students at one of the most diverse campuses in the USA: a factor analysis of survey data," in BMJ Open. He and his team conducted a university-level survey study on UNLV students, which is the first study that assessed the perceived stress of university…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Public support for the use of force in non-Western and non-major powers: The case of a China–Taiwan war," in the International Political Science Review. This article argues that the calculation in the willingness to fight and war tolerance are different for people…

Gregory Brown, M.D., (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health) was elevated to Fellow status at the American College of Psychiatrists' 2022 Annual Meeting, which was held in August.

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored an article on "Maternal urinary OPE metabolite concentrations and blood pressure during pregnancy: The HOME study" in the journal, Environmental Research. The study found that maternal urinary bis(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (BCEP) and diphenyl phosphate (DPHP) concentrations were…

Norma A. Marrun (Teaching and Learning) and Constancio R. Arnaldo Jr. (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) recently published a book chapter titled, "Taking Up Space: Reflections from a Latina and a Filipino American Faculty Teaching for Racial Justice," in the edited book, First-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) was a senior author on a recently published paper, "Divergent patterns of cognitive deficits and structural brain alterations between older adults in mixed-sex and same-sex relationships," in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Jocy-Anna Chevalier (Public Health), Chad Cross (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Rebecca Scherr (Pediatrics), and Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published an article on "The Impact of COVID-19 on Pediatric Obesity in Southern Nevada" in the Journal of Childhood Obesity. In March 2020, schools in Nevada were issued a lockdown…

Caren Yap (Business), an undergraduate student, has been accepted to the 22nd annual Public Policy Leadership Conference at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is one of 68 students in a cohort selected nationwide to attend the conference this fall. The conference will be hosted on the Harvard Kennedy School campus…