Manoj Sharma, Jason Flatt (both Environmental & Occupational Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine), published an article, “Testing the Multi-theory Model (MTM) to Predict the Use of New Technology for Social Connectedness in the COVID-19 Pandemic” in the journal, Healthcare. The article tackles the public health issue of social isolation that…

Dan Wright (Educational Psychology & Higher Education), along with colleagues from City University, London, has published the partner version of the City Birth Trauma Scale in Frontiers of Psychology. The maternal version was published a couple of years ago in Frontiers of Psychiatry and has been translated into about 10 other languages.

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) have published an article on "Lagged Meteorological Impacts on COVID-19 Incidence among High-risk Counties in the United States—a Spatiotemporal Analysis" in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. This study…

Dr. Jingchun Chen (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) has published an article, "Artificial Image Objects for Classification of Schizophrenia with GWAS-selected SNVs and Convolutional Neural Network," in Patterns, a Cell Press journal. Additional contributing authors are Xiangning Chen, Daniel G. Chen, Zhongming Zhao, Justin Zhan, and…

Ann M. Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) recently presented research on “Exposure to a Mixture of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) During Pregnancy and Maternal Cardiometabolic Health: The HOME Study" at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research last month. 

Dr. Kavita Batra (Medicine) was invited as a lead speaker to present "Nuts and Bolts of the Research and Statistical Analysis" in an International E-Conference on Innovation and Practices of Modern Sports Science and Traditional Yoga (endorsed by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India) organized by the Physical…

Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies) and co-authors published a forum essay titled "Revisiting Ethnography in Organizational Communication Studies" in the journal Management Communication Quarterly. The essay brings scholars who have used ethnographic observation in organizational settings into a conversation about the future of the…

The Office of Admissions and Division of Integrated Marketing & Branding received a Gold Award in the Circle of Excellence program by the national Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for the new UNLV Undergraduate Viewbook. The viewbook is the flagship digital and print piece for the new…

Eduardo A. Robleto (Life Sciences) and Josh Baker of the pharmacology department at UNR have been awarded an INBRE (IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence) grant from the National Institutes of Health (Institute of General Medical Sciences). This award is for five years and $19.8 million. This is a programmatic and collaborative award.…