Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) contributed to the report Minneapolis May Become Ground Zero in the Criminal Justice Debate, written by journalist Glenn Daigon regarding the current debates about "defunding the police" throughout the United States, specifically the Public Safety Charter Amendment under…

Aldo M. Barrita (Psychology) received the 2021 Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. The award provides assistance to a graduate student from an underrepresented background with the cost of conducting research in personality and/or social psychology up to $1,000.

Samantha Slinkard-Barnum (University of South Carolina College of Nursing), Laura K. Gryder-Culver, Kavita Batra, Paul J. Chestovich, and Deborah A. Kuhls (all Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine) published the study "Skilled Maneuvering: Evaluation of a Young Driver Advanced Training Program" in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. The…

Brookings Mountain West recently published, "The Great Student Swap," a higher education policy brief authored by Brookings Institution Economic Studies colleagues Aaron Klein and Ariel Gelrud Shiro. This policy brief explores trends in student body compositions, tuition costs, and appropriations for state schools across the country, focusing…

Christopher Johanen (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article "Exploring Potential Mediation Pathways on the Relationship Between Acculturation and Body Mass Index (BMI) Among Latino Adolescents" in Hispanic Health Care International. Nearly four out of 10 Latino adolescents are overweight or obese in the United States. Prior…

Anthony Waddle (M.S. Biology 2017, now at the University of Melbourne), and Rebeca Rivera and Jef Jaeger (both Biology), along with a group of former UNLV undergraduate students (Emma Keenan, Ghazal Rezaei, Joshua Levy, Yesenia Vasquez, Marlai Sai, Jessica Hill, Alexandra Zmuda, all Biology; and Hannah Rice, Kinesiology) and an Australian…

Norma A. Marrun (Teaching and Learning), Marcela Rodríguez-Campo (Nevada State College), Tara J. Plachowski (Teaching and Learning), and Christine Clark (Teaching and Learning) coauthored an article, Divergent Values: A Family Critical Race Theory Analysis of Families of Color and Their Perceptions of Teachers and Teaching as a…

Won-Yong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) and Jinsuh Tark, who is in MBA/MS Hotel Administration dual program, published a business case study "Green Car Inc.: Strategic Direction in the Car-Sharing Service Industry" with Ivey Publishing. Ivey Publishing is a leading business case study publisher with a global perspective. The…

Zakai Olsen (Mechanical Engineering) just had the paper titled "A hyperelastic porous media framework for ionic polymer-metal composite actuators and sensors: thermodynamically consistent formulation and nondimensionalization of the field equations" published in Smart Material and Structures journal.  Olsen just completed his PhD…