Dieu-My Tran (Nursing) published “Validation of the Knowledge and Perception of Cardiovascular Risk Factors Questionnaires for College Students” in the Journal of Nursing Measurement. The study, which tested the psychometric properties of two measures of knowledge and perception of cardiovascular risk factors, appeared in the journal’s August…

Jingchun Chen and Xiangning Chen (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine), along with peers at other institutions, recently published their research findings in the article “Genetic Relationship Between Schizophrenia and Nicotine Dependence” in Nature Publishing Group’s Scientific Reports. Supported in part by separate…

Doris Watson, Kim Nehls (both Educational Psychology & Higher Education) and Shaoan Zhang (Teaching and Learning) have recently been published in Storey & Hesbol (Eds.) (2016) Contemporary Approaches to Dissertation Development and Research Methods (New York: IGI-Global Publishers).  Watson and Nehls contributed chapter 4,  "…

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) co-authored an essay that appears in Everyday Feminism magazine on the controversy surrounding intersex Olympic athletes. The essay engages misconceptions about intersex traits and discrimination against athletes competing in this summer's games. 

Martin Schiller (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) and the Schiller Laboratory of Applied Bioinformatics, along with peers at other institutions, recently published research findings about “The Functional Human C-Terminome” in PLoS ONE. Schiller’s publication announces a new “-ome” (or part) of a protein region called the C-terminal…

UNLV's Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education project (TILT Higher Ed) (Provost's Office) is the focus of the current issue of the journal Peer Review, published by the Association of American Colleges & Universities. A research article by UNLV's Mary-Ann Winkelmes (Provost's Office), Matthew Bernacki (Educational Psychology…

Bing Zhang (Physics & Astronomy) and Xuefeng Wu, former UNLV postdoctoral research associate now with Purple Mountain Observatory, China, and He Gao, a UNLV Ph.D. graduate now at Beijing Normal University, China, recently published a paper in Physical Review D to test Einstein’s weak equivalent principle using gravitational…

Hyunhwa "Henna" Lee (Nursing) is a co-author of "Genome-Wide Changes in Peripheral Gene Expression following Sports-Related Concussion," which examines and analyzes peripheral blood gene expression to identify genome-wide changes before and after sports-related concussions among collegiate contact athletes. The Journal of Neurotrauma…

Peter Balle, Michel Daccache, Edward Herschaft, William Leavitt, Ronald Lemon, Robert Lockhart, George McAlpine, Jeff Moxley, Daniel Orr, Michael Sanders, Michael Saxe, Steven Saxe, and Rick Thiriot (all Dental) have been named by Desert Companion magazine as being among Southern Nevada’s Top Dentists for 2016. Winners are nominated by their…