Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) published an article in the Washington Post on July 14 that examines the current debates over critical race theory and Confederate monuments, showing how the suppression of Black history deliberately misrepresents how we understand the past and civil rights activists throughout the U.S…

Natalie Pennington (Communication Studies) published a peer-reviewed journal article, "Communication Outside of the Home through Social Media during COVID-19," in the academic journal Computers in Human Behavior Reports. This article was published with support from the UNLV Open Article Fund. The study combines qualitative and…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) has published the fourth edition of his popular book, Theoretical Foundations of Health Education and Health Promotion, from the publishing house, Jones and Bartlett Learning. The book is endorsed by SHAPE America, the Society of Health and Physical Educators as a recommended resource. It is…

Amanda Haboush-Deloye, Helena Berlin (both Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy), Erika Marquez (Environmental & Occupational Health), and Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published an article on "Obesity in Early Childhood: Examining the Relationship among Demographic, Behavioral, Nutritional, and…

Rochelle Hines and Dustin Hines (both Psychology) were awarded an NIH R15 grant through the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) for a project, Early Mechanisms Mediating the Organization of the Axon Initial Segment Impact the Formation of Axo-axonic Synapses. The $431,046 grant will fund research to advance our…

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) co-authored a paper on the clinical utility of serum uric acid in predicting cardiovascular events in adults with type 1 diabetes in a 13-year follow-up study. The findings do not support uric acid as a biomarker for cardiovascular events refuting the findings of other trials of…

Sharolyn Pollard-Durodola (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), Jorge Gonzalez (University of Houston), Laura Saenz (University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley), Denise Soares (University of Mississippi), Nora Resendez (University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley), and Leina Zhu (University of Houston) published an article in…

Euiseong Ko and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) are a co-author and a corresponding author on a new conference paper, "PathCNN: Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks for Survival Prediction and Pathway Analysis Applied to Glioblastoma," in International Society for Computational Biology (ISMB), which is a #1 ranked bioinformatics…

Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) is a co-author of a newly published article, "Household Food Insecurity and Early Childhood Development in Brazil: An Analysis of Children under 2 Years of Age," in the Public Health and Nutrition Journal. This study found that household food insecurity was strongly associated with the…