Yaa Obeng (Public Policy and Leadership, and Nursing) was named Best Master of Public Administration Graduate Student for the School of Public Policy and Leadership at the 2022 College Scholarship and Awards Ceremony. She also is the School of Nursing’s graduate engagement and retention coordinator.

Valarie Burke (Graduate College) and Annie Weisman (Medicine) recently presented at the 2022 NASPA Annual Conference.   In the interactive session — titled Best Practices in Crisis/Suicide Prevention: Perspectives from Graduate, Law, Medical, and Post-Graduate Programs — presenters introduced Early Alert, a theoretically grounded,…

Elizabeth D. Kahane (Graduate College), Lung-Chang Chien, Brian Labus, and Sheniz Moonie (all Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Dharini M. Bhammar (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), and Jocy-Anna Chevalier (Public Health) published an article on "Depression and Factors Impacting Quality of Life among Adults with Asthma Presence in Nevada" in…

Aldo Barrita (Psychology) was one of the two UNLV graduate students accepted at the Crossing Latinidades Summer Institute in Latino Humanities Studies Methodologies and Theories to take place at the University of Illinois at Chicago this summer. The institute’s goal is to equip participants who are already thinking of dissertation ideas with…

Kamali'ilani Wetherell (Criminal Justice) was selected as UNLV’s nominee for the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) & ProQuest 2021-22 Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award in humanities, social sciences, education, and business disciplines. Wetherell's advisor is professor Hong Lu.  Bryson Carrier (Kinesiology) is UNLV’s…

Jayme Haynes (Nursing) successfully defended her dissertation, "Effects of a Discourse Intervention on End of Life Knowledge and Attitude in BSN Nursing Students”. She will earn her doctorate title once her courses finish this semester

Euiseong Ko and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) are a co-author and a corresponding author on a new conference paper, "PathCNN: Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks for Survival Prediction and Pathway Analysis Applied to Glioblastoma," in International Society for Computational Biology (ISMB), which is a #1 ranked bioinformatics…

Billy Bai and Huiying Zhang (both Hospitality), together with Xi Yu Leung, ’12 PhD in Hospitality Administration, and Yunpeng Li, are authors of "Uncovering Crowdsourcing in Tourism Apps: A Grounded Theory Approach" published in Tourism Management. Applying the grounded theory, researchers propose a framework that identifies the drive of…

Bonnie Stolzman (Nursing) successfully defended her doctor of nursing practice project, "New Nurse Reality Shock & Early Burnout; Can Role Transition Education Received During New Nurse Residency Positively Affect Satisfaction?" She will officially earn her doctor status upon completing her semester coursework.

Dustin W. Davis (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences) recently published a manuscript, "A Literature Review on the Physiological and Psychological Effects of Labyrinth Walking" in the International Journal of Yogic, Human Movement and Sports Sciences. Labrynth walking entails walking a path that curves to create a circular, square, or…

Hyelin Kim, Sung-Eun Kim, and Samuel Lee (all Hospitality) recently co-authored an article that appeared in the Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing. The article explores the gratification factors of event-focused social media content that affect information sharing and information trust and ultimately the intention to attend an event. …

Meena Ejjada (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was selected for the 2021 Dave Caldwell Scholarship awarded by the American Water Works Association. The nationwide scholarship established in memory of Brown and Caldwell recognizes a graduate student whose work advances engineering and technology in the drinking water…