David Orentlicher (Law) wrote a piece for The Conversation in which he discusses how the Supreme Court's majority voting rule excludes minority viewpoints and how a return to the Court's past norm of unanimous opinions would ensure that its decisions give voice to all of its justices and the unique perspectives that each of them brings. And when…

Marketa Trimble (Law) wrote an article, "Res Judicata and Unclaimed Foreign Copyright Infringement," which was published in the Yearbook of Private International Law, a publication of the Sellier European Law Publishers and the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law. 

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) and colleagues have published an article, "From Air Quality Sensors to Sensor Networks: Things We Need to Learn" on the Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. As low-cost air quality sensors become a new paradigm for air quality monitoring and exposure assessment, this study…

Susan Lee Johnson (History) wrote Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), which received the Robert G. Athearn Award for the best book published on the 20th century West from the Western History Association.

Chartae Witherspoon (CAEO) and 10 students from the Upward Bound Math & Science Center participated in the Good Trouble Book Club, sponsored and initiated by the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) in honor of late U.S. Rep. John Lewis. The club met twice over the course of six weeks to discuss the chapters of Lewis' Across That…

Artem Gelis (Chemistry and Biochemistry) recently published an article, "Recovery of High Specific Activity Molybdenum-99 from Accelerator-induced Fission on Low-enriched Uranium for Technetium-99m Generators," in Scientific Reports. The work is a funded collaboration with Niowave and Argonne National Laboratory and has been accessed 889 times and…

Dr. Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently was elected as a member of the Nevada System of Higher Education’s Task Force on Sexual Misconduct that was established by the Nevada Legislature pursuant to Senate Bill 347. This membership on the task force was approved by the Board of Regents. The overarching goal of this task force is to…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) presented her findings on "Associations of Neonicotinoids with Insulin and Glucose Homeostasis Parameters in US Adults: NHANES 2015-2016" during the Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome session at the American Public Health Association's 2021 annual meeting.

Christopher Kearney (Psychology) conducted a series of training workshops for educational agencies in September and October regarding supports for elementary, middle, and high school students and their attendance following pandemic-induced shutdowns.  The workshops focused on a multi-tiered approach to support student functioning with respect…