Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored a paper on "Maternal and newborn metabolomic changes associated with urinary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolite concentrations at delivery: an untargeted approach" in the journal Metabolomics. Prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) has been associated with…

Nachman Gutowski (Law) co-authored a new article in Virginia Lawyers Weekly entitled "Navigating the AI Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities in Legal Practice and Education."

Robert Futrell (Sociology) co-authored a new book, "Out of Hiding: Extremist White Supremacy and How It Can Be Stopped " (published by Routledge), with Kathleen Blee and Pete Simi. Their argument focuses on three moments between 2008 and today during which white supremacists took opportunities to move from pockets of underground activism to…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore to give a talk, titled "Taiwan's 2024 Presidential and Legislative Elections: Explanations and Implications," on Jan. 17. In this talk, Wang analyzed the result of the 2024 Taiwan Presidential election, which suggests that…

Gary Totten’s (English) edited book "A Companion to the Multiethnic Literature of the United States," has been published by Wiley-Blackwell. Totten edited the book and wrote the introduction and a chapter on travel, mobility and multiethnic US literature. Other UNLV faculty also contributed to the book, with Jessica E. Teague (English) and former…

Manoj Sharma, Christopher Johansen, Sidath Kapukotuwa (all Social and Behavioral Health), Ravi Batra (Environmental and Occupational Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Bertille Assoumou (Surgery) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an article titled, “Explaining the Correlates of Eating Outside-of-Home Behavior in a Nationally…

Annaliese Grant (Sociology) published "The classed trajectory of media habitus: Television time and socioeconomic status from adolescence to adulthood" in Poetics. The work disentangles classed differences in television time over the life course.

John Mercer (Kinesiology & Nutrition Science; UNLV Sports Innovation Institute) and Alina Swafford (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) were the senior and lead authors on the paper "Core temperature while swimming in warm water wearing a triathlon wetsuit" in Science & Sport. This paper also featured UNLV alumni co-authors Boram Lim (…

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) with co-authors Isaac Calvert, Spencer C. Weiler, Sterling Hilton (all BYU), Jason Kopanke (UNC), and Luke M. Cornelius (UNF) published "The Voice of Experience: A Multi-State Empirical Examination of Arming School District…