Shaoan Zhang and Katrina Liu (both Teaching and Learning), along with Guoxiang Wang and Michael Strong (both at Texas Tech University), published an article, “Preservice Teacher Professional Commitment: A Literature Review and Conceptual Model,” in the premier teacher education journal Teaching and Teacher Education. Wang was a doctoral student in…

Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies) published an article in Communication Monographs, titled "Feminist Theory and Interorganizational Collaboration: An Ethnographic Study of Gendered Tension Management." The article considered how collaborations among multiple organizations are influenced by constructs of masculinity and femininity…

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) recently was elected president of the New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society at its annual meeting hosted this year by Baylor University (though conducted online). During the meeting, for which he served as a program chair, he commented on a paper on "John Dewey, Moral Theory, and Intellectual Disability" with…

June Cho (Nursing), Jess Li (Medicine), and Xan Goodman (Libraries) published a paper, "The Variability and Determinants of Testosterone Measurements in Children: A Critical Review,” online in Biological Research for Nursing.  

Jessica Teague (English) has published a book with Cambridge University Press, Sound Recording Technology and American Literature, from the Phonograph to the Remix. Phonographs, tapes, stereo LPs, digital remix — how did these remarkable technologies impact American writing? This book explores how 20th-century writers shaped the ways we…

Michelle Kuenzi and John Tuman (Political Science), along with Hafthor Erlingsson, '19 PhD Political Science, published an article, "The Role of International Factors in Electoral Volatility in Latin America: An Examination of Structural Adjustment," in the journal Sage Open . Focusing on 18 Latin American countries during the period of 1982 to…

Kevin Wright (Student Diversity & Social Justice) had his degree conferred on May 22. He earned a doctorate of education in organizational leadership from Northcentral University.

The Great Works Academic Certificate (GWAC) program has been awarded a grant of $150,000 from the Teagle Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities to make core texts in the humanities more widely read by UNLV students. The grant program is called Cornerstone: Learning for Living. Co-principal investigators on the project are David…

Micajah Daniels, Manoj Sharma (both Environmental and Occupational Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published a commentary, "Social Media and Substance Use among Adolescents: Implications for Research" in the Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education. The commentary examines the growing use of social media among adolescents and its impact on…