Boo Shan Tseng (Life Sciences) received a prestigious early career research grant sponsored by the international Human Frontier Science Program, in collaboration with William Durham (University of Sheffield), John Whitney (McMaster University), and Julien Bergeron (King’s College London). The project is "The bacterial biofilm as a multicellular…

Anthony King, Aldo Barrita, Ting Tong, Danielle Cheung, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) presented three research posters at the American Psychological Association's Division 50 conference for Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction. The posters that were: "The Role of Relative Deprivation in Video Gaming Disorders of US Emerging…

Dan Lee and Sean Goff (both Political Science) published an article, "A Sum of Its Parts: Party Fit and Party Change in the U.S. House" in American Politics Research. Using social network analysis on bill cosponsorship networks, they track the transformation of the parties in the U.S. House of Representatives since the 1970s. Party centrality…

Barbara J. Roth (Anthropology), along with coauthor and E. Charles Adams of the University of Arizona, had their book Agent of Change, the Deposition and Meaning of Ash in the Past published by Berghann Books, 2021.  Roth is lead editor and published two chapters in the volume.  It explores how prehistoric groups in North…

Ann M. Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) recently co-published an article on "Maternal Urinary Organophosphate Esters and Alterations in Maternal and Neonatal Thyroid Hormones" in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Production of organophosphate esters (OPEs), which represent a major flame retardant class present in consumer…

Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) was presented the 2021 SSM Lifetime Achievement award last month. The SPIE Lifetime Achievement Awards recognize senior researchers who have made significant contributions to the field of Smart Structures and Materials (SSM) or Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) and who have been…

Dr. Oriaku Kas-Osoka (Medicine) has been selected as a fellow for the WEL Leadership Initiative. The WEL project is an 18-month curriculum focused on women’s wellness through equity and leadership. The WEL Alliance is a collaborative effort whose partners include 10 U.S. medical associations: the American Academy of Family Physicians, American…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) provided testimony in front of the Nevada Legislature during the Assembly Committee on Judiciary earlier this week. He expressed his strong support for AB395, a bill that would abolish the death penalty in Nevada. Parry shared information on the historical links between capital…

Mehmet Erdem (Hospitality), along with Ata Atadil and Alison Green of University of West Florida, recently co-authored "Digital Natives in the Hospitality Workforce: An Exploratory Study on Mobile Dependency" in the Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management. It is one of the first studies that developed and tested a mobile…