Marketa Trimble (Law) published a chapter, "TRIPS in the Field of Copyright," in a new edited volume, 25 Years of the TRIPS Agreement: Past, Present, Future.

Laurence Reese (Art), a graduate student, recently published in Southwest Contemporary a review of "Ah-wah-nee," an exhibition at the Donna Beam Gallery at UNLV.  

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) has co-authored a chapter, “Using humor as a pedagogical tool in public health” in the book, Teach Public Health with a Sense of Humor: Why (and how to) be a funnier and more effective public health professor and laugh all the way to your classroom edited by Kishor Vaidya (University of Canberra).…

Tim Grigsby (Social & Behavioral Health) published an article on "Combined alcohol use and weight status effects on mortality risk among adults: Analysis of the National Household Interview Survey linked mortality files 2001-2015" in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Both alcohol use and weight status have been linked to increased…

John Curry (History) published a chapter, "Sufi Spaces and Practices" in A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul, a volume edited by Shirine Hamadeh and Cigdem Kafescioglu. The chapter, which was dedicated to the urban history of Istanbul, it detailed the function of mystical organizations and religious institutions in the development of the…

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) has published a chapter, "Click to Disable: Infantilizing Trends in Terminal Interactions at Work," in the edited volume: Like a Child Would Do: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Childlikeness in Past and Current Societies (Universitas Press). This chapter examines the infantilizing dispositions prompted by…

Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) presented his work "Kū KiaʻI Kahuku: Indigenizing Social Media and Sociospatial Symmetry" with Tēvita O. Kaʻili at the "Vā Moana: Space And Relationality In Pacific Thought And Identity" conference held Nov. 23-24.

Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) presented at the 11th Brazilian Congress of Epidemiology Nov. 25.  Her presentation was part of the panel to discuss the 2030 Agenda for Child Health and Nutrition challenges. Buccini's session was titled "Monitoring the indicators of the Nurturing Care Framework (WHO/UNICEF)."

Hal Berghel, (Computer Science) has published an article, "The Online Disinformation Opera" in the December issue of IEEE Computer. This article looks at how the Internet and social media feed disinformation and fake news to nonreality-based communities.