Liz Carrasco, Sonaly Silva, and Christina Patterson (Counseling & Psychological Services) gave a presentation titled "White Fragility: What is it?" based on the 2018 book White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo. This presentation focused on white fragility and how white people can develop their capacity to engage more constructively…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published Latin American Immigration Ethics, which she co-edited with Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda, with University of Arizona Press. The volume uses conceptual frameworks from Latin American and Latinx philosphies to consider immigration ethics challenges in the context of the Americas. Reed-Sandoval contributed three…

Brittany Paloma Fiedler, Maggie Bukowski, Chelsea Heinbach, Eduardo Martinez-Flores, and Rosan Mitola (all Libraries) published a chapter, "Engaging Student Employee Expertise To Improve Wikipedia Edit-A-Thons" in the book, Wikipedia and Academic Libraries. Martinez-Flores is a former Flora & Stuart Mason Undergraduate Peer Research Coach…

Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) presented an invited talk, "Taking Feline Well-Being Seriously," at the University of Redlands, as part of the university's Human-Animal Studies Speakers Series. This talk explored the moral duty cat guardians have to promote the flourishing of the felines under their care and the derivative duty guardians have to…

Heather Dahl and Wendy Hoskins (Counselor Education, School Psychology and Human Services) presented at the Annual European Branch of the American Counseling Association Conference held Sept. 24-25. The first presentation (along with presenter and UNLV alumna Alyse Anekstein) was "Transforming sandtray supervision: COVID response…

Sunny Gittens (Student Life), Jenna-Weglarz-Ward (Education) and Claire Tredwell (UNLV/CSUN Preschool) were awarded a $460K Child Care Access Means Parents in School grant from the Department of Education. These funds for child care access are vital as they will enable UNLV to provide stipends to low-income students with young children…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently contributed to a workshop on research methodology in social sciences and humanities at the International Federation for Fitness, Health, and Physical Education and Iron Games. The overarching goal of this workshop was to describe guidelines for designing and conducting interdisciplinary and evidence-based…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an article entitled, “A theory-based analysis of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among African Americans in the United States: A recent evidence” in co-authorship with Ravi Batra (Coforge) in the journal Healthcare. The article lends support to…

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology) and colleagues have published two articles: "Contributions and Challenges in Health Lifestyles Research" in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior Special Issue on Findings, Challenges, and Future Directions in Medical Sociology and "Postsecondary Educational Attainment and Health among Younger U.S…

Jason Flatt and Jennifer Pharr (both Environmental & Occupational Health) have been building the UNLV School of Public Health's visibility in the LGBTQIA+ community who are house insecure or experiencing homelessness. An article in Las Vegas Pride Magazine this month features Building H.O.U.S.E. Las Vegas - Bring LGBTQIA+ Housing to Las…

  Kristen Herlosky (Anthropology), a doctoral student, published, along with one of her advisers, Alyssa Crittenden, a chapter in the new edited volume, Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction, a chapter entitled "Alloparenting: Evolutionary origins and contemporary significance of cooperative childrearing as a key feature of…

Christian Ison, Janet Dufek (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Mohamed Trabia (Mechanical Engineering) published a paper, "Use of Pressure-Measuring Insoles to Characterize Gait Parameters in Simulated Reduced Gravity Conditions" in the journal Sensors. Ison is a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary health sciences…