Qing Wu, Xiangxue Xiao, and Yingke Xu (all Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published two studies together in the Journal of Clinical Medicine: "Evaluating the Performance of the WHO International Reference Standard for Osteoporosis Diagnosis in Postmenopausal Women of Varied Polygenic Score and Race"   "Performance of FRAX…

The Growth, Inclusivity, Voice, and Excellence (GIVE) Award (Women's Council) winners in this inaugural year are Cristina Hernandez  (Nidetch Women's Center) and the Libraries' Inclusion and Equity Committee. These award decisions were made based on the nominees' evidence of commitment to the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion…

Ann M. Vuong (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article on "Maternal Cadmium Exposure and Neurobehavior in Children: The HOME Study" in the journal Environmental Research. The objective of the study was to examine the potential associations between Cd exposure during pregnancy and neurobehavior among children.

Chelsea Heinbach, Mark Lenker, Francesca Marineo, and Rosan Mitola (all Libraries) presented at the LOEX 2020 virtual conference, "We Can Do It: Building The Best In Library Instruction,"earlier this month. LOEX is a self-supporting, non-profit educational clearinghouse for library instruction and information literacy information. Marineo,…

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology) and colleagues published an article, "Power, Hegemony, and World Society Theory: A Critical Evaluation," in Socius.

Colleen Hall-Patton (Sociology) had an article, "Modern Quilting in the 1950s," published in Make Modern magazine, a digital Australian magazine, which used content analysis of 1950s magazine articles to tie together current and historic quilting trends.

Xan Goodman and Aidy Weeks (Libraries), along with members of the African American Medical Library Alliance (AAMLA) Virtual Engagement Committee, recently published, "Caucus News: We Did It, You Can Too! Webinar Best Practices and Lessons Learned by the AAMLA Virtual Engagement Committee" in the Medical Library Association's…

Marta Soligo and Josiah Kidwell (both Sociology) published insightful essays exploring the pandemic's influences on social life in Northern Notes, produced by the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds in the UK. Soligo discusses the changing character of leisure during the COVID-19 crisis. Kidwell…

Lateka Grays and Cory Tucker (both Libraries) had an article, "Reimagining Career Collections to Increase Usage and Engagement" (ACE account login required) published in Collection & Curation. The scholarly journal provides well researched and authoritative information on the rapidly changing conceptions of what collection…

Hyelin Kim (Hospitality) and her co-authors recently published their research paper "Why Hotel Employees Care about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Using Need Satisfaction Theory" in the International Journal of Hospitality Management. The article investigates hotel employees’ perception of CSR practices of their firms, within the…

Lauren Paljusaj (English), along with Anne Savage and Susanna Newbury (both Art) wrote an essay that was published in Nevada Humanities' inaugural Double Down post on distance — part of its COVID-response series on human connection. The essay considers how to interpret photographs as meaningful points of time-lapsed contact. Using UNLV Special…

Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (Psychology) published "Individual Variations in Stress Response to Racial Microaggressions Among Asian Americans" in the Asian American Journal of Psychology. The study examined gender and rejection sensitivity as moderators for microaggressions on stress. Findings revealed that white perpetrators…