Honors: Kelsey Lupo
Kelsey Lupo (Libraries) has been selected as the spring 2018 University Libraries Inspirational Customer Service Award winner. She was selected based on her work assisting with the library's CONTENTdm system migration, along with managing multiple projects.
Published: Lung-Chang Chien
Lung-Chang Chien (Environmental and Occupational Health) authored "Lagged Influence of Fine Particulate Matter and Geographic Disparities on Clinic Visits for Children’s Asthma in Taiwan" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health to investigate the documented diagnosis of children’s asthma in clinic visits for…
Notable: Samantha Coogan
Samantha Coogan (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) has been named president-elect for the Nevada Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Coogan’s many responsibilities will include organizing and leading quarterly and annual meetings, providing guidance about legislative policies, fundraising, advocating that dieticians receive order-writing…
Published: Lung-Chang Chien and Francisco Sy
Lung-Chang Chien and Francisco Sy (Department of Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored "Surveillance on the endemic of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection by meteorological factors in Colombia: a population-based spatial and temporal study" in BMC Infectious Diseases to propose an early warning surveillance system for ZIKV infection by…
Published: Cass Shum
Cass Shum (Hospitality) and her coauthors' paper "Breaking the cycle: The effects of role model performance and ideal leadership self-concepts on abusive supervision spillover" was published in Journal of Applied Psychology. The paper investigates factors that can break the trickle-down effect of abusive supervision. We propose and test…
Appointment/Election: Jichun Li
In January, Jichun Li, (Mathematics), was appointed as one of the managing editors for the journal Computers & Mathematics with Applications, one of the important international journals on computational mathematics. He has been serving on the editorial board since January 2012.
Notable: Jessica Doolen, Lisa Nicholas, and Jennifer Phannes
School of Nursing answered an invitation from the National League for Nursing to test new simulation education scenarios focused on pediatrics patients. Assistant professor Jessica Doolen, lecturer Lisa Nicholas, graduate assistant Jennifer Pfannes, and three nursing students piloted, provided suggestions for enhancing content, and evaluated the…
Published: Marcia Ditmyer
Marcia Ditmyer (Dental) accepted an invitation to author an editorial from the American Journal of Public Health. Her article titled “Can Tobacco Cessation Quitlines Improve the Use of Dental Health Care” appeared in the May issue and concludes that while cessation quitlines can improve dental health care. Sufficient resources and innovative…
Presentation: Francisco Sy and Nora Caberoy
Nora Caberoy (Life Sciences) and Francisco Sy (Community Health Sciences) gave their research presentations at the 38th Philippine American Academy of Science and Engineering Annual Meeting and Symposium public health session at the University of Arizona earlier this month. Caberoy presented her research "Lessons from the Eye: Can We Redirect the…
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