Tiffany Schmier (Academic Success Center Advising Center) and Nicole Stella (Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education) recently presented at the 2022 Region 9 NACADA Conference in Orange, California. Their presentation was titled "Identity Theory 101: Using Identity Theory to Support Students." They provided an overview of pertinent…

Brenna Renn (Psychology) was awarded a Developmental Research Project grant from the Nevada INBRE, funded by the National Institutes of Health IDeA Network of Biomedical Research. This two-year project, "Task Sharing to Expand Access to Mental Health Services," will develop and test a novel treatment paradigm to expand access to…

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) with colleagues from Brigham Young University, Drs. Spencer C. Weiler and David Boren, and BYU graduate students, Jason Averett and Nate Crandall,  presented at the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology earlier this month. The presentation, "Reflections from the…

Giorgio Canarella and Stephen M. Miller (both Economics and Center for Business and Economic Research) published  "Firm Size, Corporate Debt, R&D Activity, and Agency Costs: Exploring Dynamic and Non-linear Effects" in the June issue of The Journal of Economic Asymmetries. This paper empirically investigates firm-specific determinants of…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) is the recipient of the 2022 Director’s Award given by the Ohio Commission on Minority Health for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the field of knowledge about minority health and the elimination of health disparities. The award will be conferred virtually later this month from Columbus,…

Graham McGinnis (Kinesiology and Nutrition Science) was awarded a Developmental Research Project Grant from the Nevada INBRE. This two-year grant will investigate the circadian regulation of exercise induced cardiovascular benefits including training adaptations and protection against cardiovascular disease (i.e. heart attack). Richard Tillett of…

Norma A. Marrun (Teaching and Learning) and Marcela Rodríguez-Campo (Nevada State College) have coauthored the article.

Katherine Walker (English) presented a paper titled "'Alas, she has no speech': Emilia's Trauma in Othello" at the Renaissance Conference of Southern California. 

Nerses Kopalyan (Political Science) and Anna Ohanyan's (Stonehill College) article examines the issue of democratic breakthroughs in highly geopoliticized, fractured regions in the post-Soviet space. While recognizing the political challenges of democratic transitions in such regions, it investigates specific conditions conducive to effective…