Angela Amar (Nursing) recently presented to the Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International. Her topic was entitled, "Graduating Socially Responsible Nurses." To view the presentation through that link, use the passcode: y*=iY6H&      

Xiangxue Xiao and Qing Wu (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published an article on "The Utility of Genetic Risk Score to Improve Performance of FRAX for Fracture Prediction in US Postmenopausal Women" in the journal Calcified Tissue International. The ability of the fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX) in discriminating fracture and non-…

Shekinah Hoffman and Itzel Alanis (both International Gaming Institute) published a review article, "COVID-19 and its Implications for Women In Gaming: Move Towards Regulation, Policies, and Culture Changes in the United States," in UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal. In this piece, the duo argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has made…

Angela Silvestri-Elmore (Nursing) was accepted into Sigma Nursing's new Academic Leadership Academy. The academy helps grow academy appointees on their career trajectories through leadership training. Additionally, Reimund Serafica (Nursing) passed the American Nurses Credentialing Center's psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner board…

Marketa Trimble (Law) wrote "Targeting Factors and Conflict of Laws on the Internet," which appears in The Review of Litigation. In the article she discusses questions of personal jurisdiction based on acts on the Internet and the effects of those acts on the Internet — questions that are surprisingly unsettled.

Mary Ludwig (History), delivered a paper, "Parallels, Intersections, and Divergences: The Gila River Indian Community and Japanese Americans during World War II," at the annual conference of the Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Her research examined the entwined histories of Indigenous People and…

Teresa Praus and Mary Bondmass (both Nursing), along with Drs. Jonathan Li,  Svetlana Barbarash,  and Manuel Proenza, all of the cardiology department of Southwest Medical Associates, wrote "Improving Care for Patients with Atrial Fibrillation through the Use of a Personal Electrocardiogram," which was published last month in the Journal…

Latoya Burdiss (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) has been named to the NSHE Chancellor's Task Force on Mental Health. She is a PhD student.

Dr. Lily T. Garcia (Dental) co-authored “Dentists’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Professional Behavior Toward the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multisite Survey of Dentists’ Perspectives,” which appeared as the cover story in the January issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association.

David Damore (Political Science), Robert Lang (Lincy and Brookings Mountain West), and Karen Danielsen (Public Policy and Leadership) are the authors of "In 2020, the Largest Metro Areas Made the Difference for Democrats," which was published by The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. The analysis applies the "blue metros, red…

Dr. Neamat Hassan and Dr. Hassan Ziada (both Dental) co-authored a collaborative work, “The Motivation and Confidence in Choosing Dentistry as a Career among Dental Students: A Mixed‐Methods Study,” which appeared online on Jan. 29 in the European Journal of Dental Education. The article evaluated the career choice influences, motivation, and…

Dr. Ross P. Berkeley (Medicine) presented on "Cognitive Overload: Impact on Quality & Patient Safety" at the annual Southwest Regional Emergency Medicine Conference, along with speakers from multiple other emergency medicine residencies. Berkeley discussed several cases in which cognitive overload contributed to a missed diagnosis, and…