Emir Malikov (Economics), together with his former doctoral advisee, Jingfang Zhang who is currently at the University of Kentucky, co-authored an article, "Off-Balance Sheet Activities and Scope Economies in U.S. Banking," that has been accepted at the Journal of Banking & Finance, an A-level journal on the Lee Business School journal list.…

Katherine Walker (English) published the article "'Palpable to Thinking': Othello and Gross Conceits" in English Literary Renaissance. The article looks at the mathematical and magical understandings of the term "gross" during the Renaissance to argue that Shakespeare's play juggles with these concepts in its consideration of the…

Katrina Liu (Teaching and Learning) has been elected to serve as secretary of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division K, Teaching & Teacher Education. Division K is the largest division in AERA, representing more than 5,000 members. It focuses on teaching and teacher education as fields of research, studying…

Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health) received a $20,000 pilot grant from the National Cancer Institute/Huntsman Comprehensive Cancer Center's Geographical Management of Cancer Health Disparities Program (GMaP) for a one-year project, "Acculturation and its Association with Highly Microbiota-accessible Food Sources (HMAFS): An…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored a chapter, “People with Intellectual Disabilities, Drug Misuse, and Addiction,” in the book, Handbook of Substance Misuse and Addictions, in association with Ram Lakhan of Berea College. The book has been published by Springer. The chapter covers various facets of substance use among persons…

Yaa Obeng (Public Policy and Leadership, and Nursing) was named Best Master of Public Administration Graduate Student for the School of Public Policy and Leadership at the 2022 College Scholarship and Awards Ceremony. She also is the School of Nursing’s graduate engagement and retention coordinator.

Dr. Moni Ahmadian (Dental) authored and presented "An Unusually Expansile Nasopalatine Duct Cyst Mimicking a Nasolabial Cyst" as a poster during the 2022 American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology annual meeting.   

Lindsay Buczek (Medicine) presented a poster, "The Data Error Criteria (DEC) for Retrospective Studies: Development and Preliminary Application," that was created by Buczek, Fadi Azar, Justin Bauzon, Kavita Batra, Caleb Murphy, and Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (all Medicine). The presentation was made at the American College of Physicians Internal…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) served as a guest editor and organizer of an online forum, Black Las Vegas, published by the award-winning blog Black Perspectives. The forum will run through May 6 and feature five essays on different aspects of Black history in Las Vegas from various scholars based in Southern Nevada…