David G. Schwartz (Ombuds Office) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the office's blog. "A Matter of Perspective" begins with a personal observation that leads to some thoughts on how we present ourselves — and how what we see of others is not always the complete picture.

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) accepted a postdoctoral fellow position at the Center for Law & History at Stanford Law School for 2022-24. 

Asma Tahir (Environmental & Occupational Health) presented a poster on "Comparison of the Airborne Fungal Spore Concentrations in the Mojave Desert and Las Vegas 2016-2020" at the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology annual meeting in Phoenix last month. The poster also has been published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical…

David Forman (Philosophy) published "Kant on the Moral Law as the Causal Law for Freedom" in the journal Kant-Studien.

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) served as the chair of the Planning Committee for the seventh annual conference of the African American Intellectual History Society, which took place virtually earlier this month and was hosted and supported by UNLV. The annual conference brings together the most innovative…

Steven T. Landis (Political Science) was interviewed by the Reno Gazette Journal to discuss the risks of Nevada being a target for a possible Russian nuclear strike. 

Tiffiany Howard (Political Science), Brach Poston (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and April Lopez (University of Texas, Austin) recently published the paper, "Extremist Radicalization in the Virtual Era: Analyzing the Neurocognitive Process of Online Radicalization." Their article appears in the latest issue of the journal, Studies in…

Amanda Belarmino (Hospitality) is coauthor of an article, "Risk Mitigation through Source Credibility in Online Travel Communities," which has been published in the hospitality research journal, Anatolia. Using "uncertainty reduction theory" the researchers explore the impacts of risk perceptions in online travel communities on source…

Janice M. Pluth (Health Physics & Diagnostic Sciences) and Chad L. Cross (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), along with colleagues at UC Berkley, recently published the article "Cellular DNA Effects of Radiation and Cancer Risk Assessment in Cells with Mitochondrial Defects" in the Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences. The…