Joe Ervin (Academic Success Center), Dave Beisecker and Jasmin Özel (both Philosophy) presented their paper, "The St. Louis Hegelians and the Institutionalization of Democratic Education," at the annual meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society. The paper urges a reappraisal of the reception of Hegelian philosophy in 19th-century America…

Nirmala Lekhak, Lori Candela (both Nursing) and Kweisi Ausar (Hospitality) co-authored a recent publication, "Nurse Spiritual Self-Care: A Scoping Review," in Nursing Outlook. The report examines the need to promote spiritual self-care of nurses.  Additionally, Lekhak recently presented her research on "Healthy Lifestyle: Impact of…

Danica G. Hays (Education), published a grounded theory study, "A Grounded Theory of Counselor Educators' Academic Leadership Development," in the Counselor Education and Supervision (CES) journal. The qualitative study provides a theoretical model of academic leadership engagement based on interviews with 20 counselor educators…

Zandra Johnson (Nursing) successfully defended her doctor of nursing practice project, “Transient Ischemic Attacks Evaluation and Treatment in Specialized Urgent Care Facilities - TIA Care Model." She will officially earn her doctor title when her classes wrap up.

Sanae El Ibrahimi (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Niema Y. Beckford, and Eddy M. Virgen (both Public Health), along with Yunyu Xiao, Purdue University Indianapolis; Caroline D. Bergeron,  Public Health Agency of Canada; and Matthew L. Smith, Texas A&M University, recently published an article, "Suicide Distribution and Trends Among Male…

Kathryn Rafferty (Life Sciences) was awarded U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen's March Women in STEM award. This prestigious award aims to highlight Nevada's women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) with the hopes of encouraging young women to pursue their STEM goals. 

Saha Salahi (Communication Studies, Brookings Mountain West, and The Lincy Institute), along with Santiago Gudino-Rosales, '20 BS Biology (Honors College), and Yanneli Llamas, '20 BA English and Criminal Justice (Honors College),, contributed their personal and family stories to the Bookings Institution podcast "Our Nation of Immigrants,"…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation on her book, Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice, to the Western Michigan University department of philosophy. The talk was organized by the WMU chapter of Minorities and Philosophy. She also presented her paper “Filosofía infantil en tiempos de pandemia: Reconsiderando,…

Heejin Mun (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Bowen Liu (Mathematics), Thu Huynh Anh Pham (Biology), and Qing Wu (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) recently published an article on "C-Reactive Protein and Fracture Risk: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies through the Use of Both Frequentist and Bayesian…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Revisiting Relational Pandemic Ethics in Light of the COVID-19 Abortion Bans in the United States" in the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.

Cae Swanger (Healthcare Administration & Policy) recently was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Healthcare IT category of the Las Vegas Top Tech Awards. She was honored for her role within HCA Healthcare and her tenure within the tech industry as a whole.

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Culturest) took part in the 6th International Conference on the Teaching of French as a Foreign Language (“Colloque FLE 2021”), which was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico last month. This conference, organized by teleconference (Zoom platform), is aimed at applied linguists and researchers in French as a…