Zandra Johnson (Nursing) successfully defended her doctor of nursing practice project, “Transient Ischemic Attacks Evaluation and Treatment in Specialized Urgent Care Facilities - TIA Care Model." She will officially earn her doctor title when her classes wrap up.

Sanae El Ibrahimi (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Niema Y. Beckford, and Eddy M. Virgen (both Public Health), along with Yunyu Xiao, Purdue University Indianapolis; Caroline D. Bergeron,  Public Health Agency of Canada; and Matthew L. Smith, Texas A&M University, recently published an article, "Suicide Distribution and Trends Among Male…

Kathryn Rafferty (Life Sciences) was awarded U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen's March Women in STEM award. This prestigious award aims to highlight Nevada's women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) with the hopes of encouraging young women to pursue their STEM goals. 

Saha Salahi (Communication Studies, Brookings Mountain West, and The Lincy Institute), along with Santiago Gudino-Rosales, '20 BS Biology (Honors College), and Yanneli Llamas, '20 BA English and Criminal Justice (Honors College),, contributed their personal and family stories to the Bookings Institution podcast "Our Nation of Immigrants,"…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation on her book, Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice, to the Western Michigan University department of philosophy. The talk was organized by the WMU chapter of Minorities and Philosophy. She also presented her paper “Filosofía infantil en tiempos de pandemia: Reconsiderando,…

Kevin Wright (Student Diversity & Social Justice) completed the updated and revised Train-the-Trainer certified facilitator course certification offered by the organization Appreciation at Work.  This certification sustains Wright's ability to facilitate trainings and workshops about appreciation in the workplace from an…

Heejin Mun (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Bowen Liu (Mathematics), Thu Huynh Anh Pham (Biology), and Qing Wu (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) recently published an article on "C-Reactive Protein and Fracture Risk: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies through the Use of Both Frequentist and Bayesian…

John Curry (History) made a keynote presentation of his work in progress for the Mediterranean Seminar's Spring Workshop, The Global Mediterranean, this month. His paper was "Working the Global Mediterranean: Mezemorta Hüseyin Paşa as Corsair, Captive, Dey, and Admiral in the Late Seventeenth Century." He was the third of three keynote…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was selected to receive the 2021 Wilson China Fellowship from The Wilson Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank focusing on U.S.-China relationships. The $20,000 fellowship will be used to support his research project,  “Pro-Democracy or Anti-China? The Emergence and Transformation of #…