On October 5-7, the National Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents held their annual summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Assistant professor Salazar Montoya (Education, LION) presented during a general session: "The National Committee Report for Professional Learning Growth and Development (PLGD)." She also presented with UNLV…

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a policy paper titled, "Making Nevada Schools Safer: The State of Empirical Evidence" in Policy Issues in Nevada Education, Volume 5, Issue 1. In the paper, Skousen reviews the state of the empirical literature on school safety and argues that while…

Federick Ngo (Higher Education) and Jaekeun Cho (Engineering, Higher Education), published a study titled, "The Effect of In-State Tuition on International Student Enrollment: Evidence from the Heartland," in the Journal of Student Financial Aid. The study examined a unique policy in Minnesota that allowed colleges and universities to offer…

Valarie Burke (Graduate College) spoke at the 12th annual conference of the United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association on September 21. Titled "Did You Hear That? That's Graduate Students Sharing Their Research!," the presentation focused on the many resources offered by the UNLV Graduate College to assist students in…

LeAnne Salazar-Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented a guest lecture for the New Mexico State University College of Education doctoral program in leadership. She presented on qualitative methods of research and highlighted photo voice and her past research utilizing qualitative research.

Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored an editorial, "Omicron variants of the SARS-CoV-2: A potentially significant threat in a new wave of infections," in the Disaster and Emergency Medicine journal. Batra has published several peer-reviewed articles related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its trajectory. 

Harry Jang (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has been awarded a prize in the Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, office of nuclear fuel and supply chain. Jang's award is in the Competition for Students at Universities with Less than $600 Million in 2020 R&D Expenditures. His award-winning…

Erika Marquez, Courtney Coughenour, Maxim Gakh, Tiana Tu, Pashtana Usufzy, and Shawn Gerstenberger (all Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article, "A Mixed-Methods Assessment of Residential Housing Tenants' Concerns about Property Habitability and the Implementation of Habitability Laws in Southern Nevada" in the International…

Art Gelis, Dan Koury, and Kelly Seeley (all Chemistry and Biochemistry) recently were published in JACS, the Journal of the American Chemical Society for their work, "Transuranium Sulfide via the Boron Chalcogen Mixture Method and Reversible Water Uptake in the NaCuTS3 Family." This research, in collaboration with University of Columbia…

Kavita Batra, Anne Weisman (both Medicine), Ravi Batra, and Manoj Sharma (both Public Health) along with researchers from the CDC Foundation, Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, and other countries, including India, Italy, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, co-authored an article, "Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Variants: A Rapid Literature…

Mary Blankenship (The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West, Economics, Chemistry) recently had her research on Twitter posts featured in a Las Vegas Review-Journal story and on a City Cast Las Vegas podcast episode. She collects and studies varying public responses on Twitter that occur after a mass shooting. After reviewing tweets…

Benjamin Burroughs, Benjamin J. Morse, Travis Carmona (all Journalism and Media Studies), and Travis Snow (Sociology) have published an article, "The Masks We Wear: Watchmen, Infrastructural Racism, and Anonymity" in the journal Television & New Media. As COVID-19 has led to the politicization of masks and the donning of masks, the…