Kavita Batra, Amanda Elizabeth Morgan, and Manoj Sharma (all Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article, "COVID-19 and Social Isolation Endangering Psychological Health of Older Adults: Implications for Telepsychiatry" in the journal Signa Vitae.

Holly Harden-Ramella and Brenda M. Hernandez (both Jean Nidetch Women's Center) presented at the annual Nevada Coalition to End Domestic & Sexual Violence Conference. Their topic was "Healing Centered Advocacy: Looking Beyond Systems of Oppression." They educated service providers on the core concepts of healing-centered advocacy and how to…

Patrice Leverett (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) has been appointed as chair of the College of Education Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Committee. Wendy Rodgers (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) will serve as chair-elect for the current academic year. 

Toni Repetti and doctorate student Liheng Zhang (both Hospitality) article "Food and Beverage Staffing Changes in Nevada Resorts After the Great Recession" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Hospitality Financial Management. This paper evaluated how restaurants within casino resorts adjusted staffing after the…

Cyndi Shein (Libraries) has been appointed to the Publications Board of the Society of American Archivists, the preeminent source of professional and educational resources for archivists in the United States. With fellow board members, Shein is responsible for establishing the direction, goals, and priorities of the publications program,…

Jennifer R. Pharr (Environmental & Occupational Health), Mary Angela M. Terencio (Occupational Therapy), and Timothy Bungum (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published a study on "Physical Activity Guidelines Compliance and Its Relationship With Preventative Health Behaviors and Risky Health Behaviors" in the Journal of Physical…

Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) is the author of an article, "Nonculpably Ignorant Meat Eaters & Epistemically Unjust Meat Producers," that has been published in Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective.  

Tiffany Lin (Art) is featured in Issue 11 of Maake Magazine, an independent, artist-run print publication. The issue, curated by Tanya Gayer, includes 19 featured artists, each with a two-page spread. The magazine's goal is to share innovative and experimental contemporary artwork and support the expansion and reinvention of traditional…

P. Jane Hafen (English) delivered the keynote address for the John Whitmer Historical Association Conference. Additionally, her book, Essays on American Indian and Mormon History, co-edited with Brenden Rensink of Brigham Young University, won the association's award for best anthology of 2019. 

Dr. Banveet Kaur (Medicine) published her manuscript, “Artificial Intelligence Trumps TAVI2-SCORE and CoreValve Score in Predicting 1-year Mortality Post Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement” in the Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine Journal. This study of 1,055 patients utilized the Gradient Boosting Machine learning (GBM) prediction…

Erika Marquez (Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy) and Melva Thompson-Robinson (Center for Health Disparities Research) led a team that published the Environmental Scan of Region IX: An Access to Health Care Report , which takes a look at factors that promote and impede health equity. It is the first of its kind to examine issues…

Selam Ayele (Public Health) and Melva Thompson-Robinson, and Johanna Andrews (both Center for Health Disparities Research), along with Carolee Dodge Francis of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently published an article, "Factors Associated with Mental Health Service Utilization Among Ethiopian Immigrants and Refugees" in the Journal of…