Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) was an invited speaker at the 2019 Inclusive Sport Summit hosted by the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her talk was titled "Awareness Leading to Action: The Impact of Women on the Evolution of Sport." She also moderated the panel "Beyond the Surface, Beyond Policies: The Underlying…

Nicole D. Jenkins (Sociology) published "Contested Identities: African Diaspora and Identity Making in a Hair Braiding Salon." in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. She is a doctoral student.

Kevin Wright and Zainub Cementwala (both Student Diversity and Social Justice) served as panelists during a webinar that was co-sponsored by the Coalition for Multicultural Affairs and the Coalition for (Dis)Ability under the American College Personnel Association.  The topic was "Finding Community: Narratives of Disability and Race."

Mary Whitehead (Student Diversity and Social Justice) and Eli Williams (Service Learning and Leadership) hosted a leadership lunch on the topic of Black Womxn and Leadership.

Drs. Ahmed Mohamed and Edward Lynch, along with pediatric resident Dr. Alice Trieu (all Dental) co-authored an article, "Silver Diamine Fluoride Versus Sodium Fluoride for Arresting Dentine Caries in Children: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," which appears in the current issue of Scientific Reports, Nature. The article systematically…

Arya Udry and Chris DeFelice (both Geoscience), along with Zoe Wilbur, '18 BS Geology; Rachel Rahib, '15 BS Geology and '18 MS Geoscience; and Logan Combs, '18 MS Geoscience, co-authored the manuscript "Reclassification of Four Aubrites as Enstatite Chondrite Impact Melts: Potential Geochemical Analogs for Mercury" in the Meteoritics and…

Drs. Neamat Hassan and Hassan Ziada (both Dental) co-authored an article, "Implant impression Accuracy of Parallel and Non-parallel Implants: A Comparative In-vitro Analysis of Open and Closed Tray Techniques," which appeared in the International Journal of Implant Dentistry’s online version. The study concluded there were generally no significant…

Erika G. Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) earlier this month presented a paper, "Same Country, Different World: Making the Case for the “Intranational” Sexile," at the international Sites Queer Conference, which was hosted by the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras School of Architecture.

Kevin Wright (Student Diversity and Social Justice), Beth Gersten (Lee Business School), Emily Shreve (Academic Success Center), Rosan Mitola (Libraries), and Ross Bryant (Military and Veterans Services) presented at the 28th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience.  The topic was "The Color of Success: First-Year Experience…

Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored an "Analysis of Self-Reported Walking for Transit in a Sprawling Urban Metropolitan Area in the Western U.S." that was published in a special issue of Sustainability, focused on urban sprawl and sustainability. The design of the Las Vegas community is so…

Drs. John Brosious, Shawna Kleban, Joshua Goldman, John Menezes, Wei Wang and Richard Baynosa, along with Adnan Mohsin and Shelley Williams (all Medicine) are authors of an article, "Ahead of the Curve: Tracking Progress in Novice Microsurgeons," which has been published in the Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. The…

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology) wrote a blog post about the "Educational Differences in Health" session she organized for the annual meeting for Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science.