Eshaan Vakil (Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute) recently had his opinion piece, "Mountain West suburbs become a key battleground" published in the Las Vegas Sun. In light of the 2020 presidential election,Vakil discusses how more political attention will be paid to congressional districts within the Mountain West region…

Ally Beckwith (Political Science, Honors College) recently had a fact sheet on child food insecurity in Nevada counties published through the Data Hub. Her fact sheet focuses on food insecurity experienced by children, and the food budget shortfall in Nevada.

Drs. Neamat Hassan and Karl Kingsley (both Dental) are serving as guest editors for a special issue of the Journal of Functional Biomaterials titled "Recent Advances in Dental Implants and Biomaterials."

Kevin Wright (Student Diversity & Social Justice) presented a workshop on time management and developing healthy workplace habits for professional associations at California State University, East Bay and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Rebecca Martin (Physics and Astronomy) was awarded a NASA Exoplanets grant for $541,460 to study planet formation in binary star systems.

Sanae El Ibrahimi (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was invited to speak at the Utah Health Information Network Health Information Technology 2020 conference. The presentation discussed Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Sources and Applications in Administrative Data Sets. Specifically, the presentation addressed the importance of tracking SDoH…

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) recently presented a paper, "S or no s?  A lesson plan for integrating dialectal phonology in the beginning Medical Spanish classroom," at the Medical Spanish Summit.  

Romeo Jackson (Student Diversity & Social Justice) with Antonio Duran of Auburn University and Alex C. Lange of the University of Iowa presented a paper, "A Whitened Rainbow: The In/visibility of Race and Racism in LGBTQ+ Higher Education Scholarship" at the  2020 Association for the Study of Higher Education Virtual …

Shane Kraus (Psychology) presented his work, Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention, at the virtual Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling ENGAGE conference. His talk focused on using mindfulness-based relapse prevention for the treatment of gambling disorder in United States veterans.