John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Science; UNLV Sports Innovation Institute) and Andrew Craig-Jones, a UNLV alum now assistant professor at Augusta University, were the senior and lead author on the paper "The effect of compression garments on biomechanical and physiological factors" in Biomechanics. This paper also was co-authored by James…

Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy, Center for Health Disparities Research) recently co-authored a paper, "Smoking Cessation and Pancreatic Cancer Risk in Individuals With Prediabetes and Diabetes: A Nationwide Cohort Study," in Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a paper titled, "Making Nevada Schools Safer: The State of Empirical Evidence." The policy paper reviews the measures taken to improve school safety. He reports that the evidence shows that overall safety in the nation’s elementary and secondary schools has…

Laurencia Bonsu (Social and Behavioral Health), Priyambda Kumra (Environmental and Occupational Health), Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published a manuscript titled, “A Systematic Review of Binge Drinking Interventions and Bias Assessment among College Students and…

Fatima Suarez (Sociology) was interviewed about her latest book project on Latino Fathers in the February 16 episode of the Cultural Studies Podcast. 

Josh Hawkins (Photo) published in the University Photographers' Association of America "Thingamajig Thursday: Apple Watch Transcribe App" on the use of the Apple Watch and iPhone to improve efficiency and details in photo captions.   

Katherine Betts, Kushanie Heenkenda, Bryan Jacome, Sohyo Kim, Michael Tover, and Zhange Feng (all Chemistry and Biochemistry) published a study, "Refractive Laser Beam Measuring Diffusion Coefficient of Concentrated Battery Electrolytes," that offers a universal optical method to measure diffusion coefficient, a key transport property in battery…

Students Oscar Toro and Deanna Chea (both Medicine) won first place for their poster, “Digital Determinants: How Internet Access Connects Nevada,” at the Nevada Psychiatric Association business meeting held at the Paris Hotel and Casino on Feb. 16, 2024.

Robert Rakosi, Lexi Davis, Kavita Batra, Henry Krasner, Jordon Miller, Sukanta Maitra, Douglas Fraser, and Allison McNickle (all Medicine) presented their study "CT vs. MRI C-Spine Imaging for C-spine clearance in obtunded patients with low-energy trauma mechanisms," at the 19th Annual Academic Surgical Congress held in Washington, D.C. The…