On Sept. 5 the Academic Success Center (ASC) celebrated its 10-year anniversary and as part of its celebration recognized former students, faculty, departments, and community leaders that have made the ASC such an exemplary center. They are: Dean’s Award - Carl Reiber (formerly of the provost's office) Dean’s Award - Regent…

Amanda Belarmino (Hospitality) and her co-author's paper "How E-WOM Motivations Vary by Hotel Review Website" recently was published in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. The paper investigated the internal motivation of guests writing on review websites and examined the moderating effect of service experience.

Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) published an op-ed in the Las Vegas Sun calling for the Nevada Legislature to fund a database to track payday lending activity. The op-ed highlights Nevada's struggles with consumer financial literacy and the need for effective oversight.

Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) was an invited speaker at the American Genetics Association’s Annual President’s Symposium in Kamuela, Hawaii, in July.  The theme of this year's symposium was "Origins of Adaptive Radiation." She spoke on evolution in a sea of trees: adaptive radiation where populations are continuous, gene flow…

Charlotta E. Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) and her husband, Mark Callis Sanders, are co-authors of a paper, "A World's Dilemma ‘Upon Which the Sun Never Sets’:  The Nuclear Waste Management Strategy (part II): Russia, Asia and the Southern Hemisphere,” which has been accepted for publication in the journal Progress in Nuclear Energy. Part…

Jay Shen, Sungyoun Chun (both Community Health Sciences); Pearl Kim (Healthcare Administration), Seong-min Park (Criminal Justice), Haneul Choi (Honors), and Ji Won Yoo (Medicine) recently published an article, “Relationship Between Acute Hepatitis C and the Opioid Epidemic” in the American Journal of Medicine. This paper was a collaboration…

Le Chen (Math) and Jingyu Huang of the math department at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom are co-authors of a paper, " Comparison Principle for Stochastic Heat Equation on Rd, which has been accepted for publication in the Annals of Probability, one of the top journals in probability. 

Soumya Upadhyay (Healthcare Administration) presented a professional development workshop (PDW) session on the topic "Everything You Wanted to Know about Reviewing but Were Afraid to Ask" at the 78th Academy of Management annual conference in Chicago. This PDW discussed best practices in reviewing journal articles and recommendations for reviewers…

David Orentlicher (Law) recently published “Politics and the Supreme Court: The Need for Ideological Balance,” in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. The divisive battle over the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court reflects a disturbing reality — the justices’ personal ideologies exert undue influence on the court’s…