The Department of Political Science hosted the conference "A Season of Elections, New (or Renewed) Leadership, and Policy Impacts" on campus on April 26, 2024. The conference is sponsored by Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. Scholars and students from Japan, South Korea, India, Taiwan, UNLV, and other parts of the U.S. attended and presented their…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published a paper titled, "Gestational PBDE concentrations, persistent externalizing, and emerging internalizing behaviors in adolescents: The HOME study" in the journal Environmental Research. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are ubiquitous environmental chemicals used as flame retardants in…

Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) was interviewed by Channel 13 about the petition she wrote (with fellow Mount Charleston residents) in an effort to protect the wild horses in Mount Charleston. 

Professor Benjamin Edwards (Law) presented on “Real World Ethical Scenarios in Trusts and Estates Practice” at the 2024 Nevada Trust Conference.  

Karly Van Holten (Service Learning and Leadership; First-Year Higher Ed. Ph.D. student) and Brooklyn Cruz (Nevada Treasurer's Office) presented "I Ain’t One of Your Little Friends…But I Am," an interactive workshop on empowering students through leadership opportunities at the Southern Nevada Black Educators Initiative's "Educators Conference…

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) accepted an invitation to serve as a seminar speaker during the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology annual meeting where she presented two challenging patient cases of oral manifestations of genetic and systemic diseases. Shah also co-presented an abstract as a poster during the American Academy of Oral…

Drs. Hannah Fraley, Clariana Ramos de Oliveira, and Candace Burton (all Nursing) published their article titled, "Trauma-Informed Research with Emerging Adult Survivors of Sexual Violence," in Clinical Nursing Research. 

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) presented on "Cannabis-specific experiences related to depression and anxiety among an adult sample of cannabis users" during the 2024 Nevada Public Health Association Annual Conference. The presentation described a study examining features of cannabis use (expectancies, positive and negative…

Daniel Wright (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published "Normrank Correlations for Testing Associations and for Use in Latent Variable Models" describing the normrank correlation. Through several simulations he shows some advantages it has over traditional measures in structural equation models and elsewhere.