Russell Argenal (Student Wellness) presented the poster presentation “Exploring Health Risk Behaviors among Asian and Pacific Islander Sexual and Gender Minorities" at the virtual American Public Health Association 2020 Annual Meeting and Expo. This work was co-authored by Dr. Jason Flatt and Dr. Francisco Sy (both Environmental and…

Aldo Barrita, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt, Marvin Fuentes, and Lianelys Cabrera-Martinez (all Psychology) presented a poster summarizing a systematic review of the literature on microaggressions impacting Latinx communities at the 2020 conference for the National Latinx Psychological Association.

Dr. Neamat Hassan and Dr. Hassan Ziada (both Dental) co-authored "The Impact of Impression Coping Geometrical Design on Accuracy of Implant Impressions: An Experimental Study," which appeared this month in the International Journal of Implant Dentistry. The study evaluated the effect of implant impression coping geometrical designs on the accuracy…

Sol Martinez (Music) was featured in a National Urban Indian Family Coalition national campaign ad urging Indigenous people to vote. A sophomore, she is a member of the UNLV Native American Student Association and has roots in several Indigenous groups: Las Vegas Paiute, Moapa Paiute, Cheyenne, Pawnee, Creek, as well as Durango, Mexico.

Melva Thompson-Robinson, Johanna E. Andrews, Tristesse Burton (all Center for Health Disparities Research) and Kristina Ricker-Boles (Public Health), along with colleagues at other institutions, have a book chapter published in Researching in the Age of COVID-19, Volume III: Creativity and Ethics. This book explores dimensions of…

John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) gave a keynote presentation as part of the virtual Norseman Endurance Science Seminar 2020. The title of the presentation was "Swimming in Warm Water: The Consequences of Wearing a Wetsuit." Norseman is an iconic extreme triathlon and the purpose of this seminar was to share research on endurance…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published the co-authored article "Influencing Overseas Chinese by Tweets: Text-images as the Key Tactic of Chinese Propaganda" in the Journal of Computational Social Science. The article traced and analyzed thousands of tweets with #USAVirus hashtag and Twitter's decisions to suspend the accounts. The…

Dr. Richard Baynosa (Medicine) has been selected as visiting professor for the Plastic Surgery Foundation. He specializes in breast reconstruction. As a Plastic Surgery Foundation visiting professor, he provides clinical, technical, and educational expertise in training plastic surgery residents.

Kimberly James, Timothy Jones (both Music), Louis McDonald (Art History), Olga Townsend (BFA student), Francisco Menendez (Film), Adam Paul (Theatre), Joshua Vermillion (Architecture), Phil Zawarus (Landscape Architecture), Sean Slattery, Michael Fong (both Art), Gil Kaupp (Music Technology), Julian Kilker (Journalism & Media Studies), and…