Takashi Yamashita,  Erick López, and Jennifer Keene (all Sociology) published their article, "Predictors of Adult Education Program Satisfaction in Urban Community-Dwelling Older Adults" in the journal Educational Gerontology.  

Takashi Yamashita (Sociology) was one of the authors of a recently published study, "An International Comparison of the Ohio Department of Aging-Resident Satisfaction Survey: Applicability in a U.S. And Canadian Sample." Coauthors were Heather Cooke of the Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, J. Scott Brown and Jane…

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) is doing work on the effects of computer-mediated communication that is being recognized increasingly both nationally and internationally. He has been interviewed by Channel 8, FOX National News, Las Vegas Review Journal, Las Vegas Weekly, and CNet, and cited in the New York Times and the Pew Internet and American Life…

Simon Gottschalk and Jennifer Whitmer (both Sociology) have published a coauthored chapter in the edited volume, The Drama of Social Life: A Dramaturgical Handbook (Ashgate). Additionally, two of Gottschalk's articles have been reprinted in the edited volume, Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsociology (Oxford…

Denise Cook (Sociology) has an article, "The Cultural Life of the Living Dead," appearing in Contexts, a publication of the American Sociological Association. The article explores how zombies have become an explosive cultural phenomena that producers, retailers, and governmental agencies utilize to target consumers. The zombie myth pervades…

Dan Bubb (Academic Assessment), Gregory Schraw (Education), David James (Academic Programs), Barbara Brents (Sociology), Kyle Kaalberg (Teaching and Learning), Gwen Marchand (Educational Psychology), Penny Amy (Biology), and Ann Cammett (Law) recently published an article in Assessment Update, a publication that is widely read by assessment…

Shannon Monnat (Sociology) recently co-authored a paper with a colleague at Georgetown University Medical Center that will be published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, the fourth highest ranked journal in the field of public health. The paper, "Is There an Association between Maternal Pap Test Use and Adolescent Human Papillomavirus?"…

Shannon Monnat (Sociology) coauthored an article, "Trends in the Family Income Distribution by Race/Ethnicity and Income Source, 1988-2009," with a colleague at the University at Albany - State University of New York. The article was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal, Population Review. The paper examines changes in overall family…

An-Pyng Sun (Social Work), Chih-Hsiang Ho (Math), and Larry Ashley (Educational and Clinical Studies) wrote an article, "Addiction and Substance Abuse among Nevada Youth," which appeared in The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State (2012, Edited by Dmitri N. Shalin of Sociology). Sun and Ashley also…

Shannon Monnat (Sociology) won a poster session award at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America (PPA) for her poster "Do Contextual Conditions Moderate the Relationship between Race/Ethnicity and Mammogram Utilization." The PPA is the official international professional organization of demographers.