Gabriela Buccini (Social & Behavioral Health) has been accepted into the 2022-24 Institute for Implementation Science Scholars (IS-2) at Washington University in St. Louis. The IS-2 is a competitive mentored training program for investigators interested in applying dissemination and implementation (D&I) methods and strategies to…

Dr. Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) recently co-authored and published a research article, "Association Between Shift Rotation and 30-year Framingham Risk of Cardiovascular Disease among Male Workers in a Medium-sized Manufacturing Factory," in Industrial Health. Findings reveal that workers on weekly rotations involving 3–5…

Donald Price and Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences), along with a previous graduate student and colleagues from the USDA-ARS in Hawaii and at Eastern Mennonite University, published an article in the March issue of Scientific Reports titled "Phenotypic Disruption of Cuticular Hydrocarbon Production in Hybrids Between Sympatric Species of Hawaiian…

Dr. Syed F. Saquib, Dr. Deborah A. Kuhls, and Samantha Slinkard-Barnum (all Medicine) published an article, "Pediatric Burn Care: How Burn Camps Survived and Thrived During the Coronavirus Pandemic," in Journal of Burn Care & Research.    

John Curry (History) has worked as one of a team of translators of the first printed books in Ottoman Turkish, dating from 1732. The Cihannuma, or Cosmographia of Katip Celebi (d. 1657), later combined with the work of the Arab geographer Abu Bakr al-Dimashqi and published by the Hungarian convert Ibrahim Muteferrika, was an encyclopedic…

Jacob D. Skousen and Raymond Gonzalez (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented a workshop during the 2022 CARE Conference. The workshop, Action Research in Education, was designed to assist teachers and school-based personnel (e.g., support staff and administrators) in conducting action research. Gonzales is a…

Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute) and Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues from the Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School recently published a paper, "Examining Responsible Gambling Program Awareness and Engagement Trends and Relationships with Gambling Beliefs and Behaviors: A Three-Wave Study of Customers from a…

Nevada Beta, the UNLV chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED), sent several members, including those serving on its executive board, to the Biennial AED National Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. AED is a national health pre-professional honor society. At the conference the chapter earned awards and represented Region 5, which consists of 11…

Elizabeth Johnson and Sheetal Survase (both Academic Success Center Advising Center) recently presented at the 2022 Region 9 NACADA Conference in Orange, California. Their presentation was titled "Coping During COVID-19: Examining Advising Effectiveness in Relation to an Advisor's Work Conditions." They shared their insights on ways to…