David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently launched a new blog, informed informality, which discusses conflict resolution, people, history, and culture. The first post, which was published earlier this week, explains his rationale for starting the blog and explores the meaning of its name.
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning & Leadership) was interviewed about the work of the Office of Service Learning & Leadership on the latest episode of Let's Talk UNLV, hosted by Tanya Crabb (Medicine) and Sammie Scales (Student Diversity Programs). "From fostering leadership development to providing vital support for students facing basic…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) served as a philosophical consultant for an episode of Alma's Way titled, "Alma's Payday," which aired recently on PBS Kids.
Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies) and Elodie Edwards-Grossi (Associate Professor, American Studies and Sociology, Université Paris Dauphine) published their Research and Analysis article, "Slavery and Its Afterlives in US Psychiatry," in a special issue of the American Journal of Public Health on…
Kasra Ghaharian (International Gaming Institute) participated in two panels at Discovery 2024 in Toronto, Canada. Discovery is a conference dedicated to responsible gambling organized by the RGC (Responsible Gambling Council). The first panel explored how technology and AI can be used to support player protection. During the second panel,…
Master's student Jae (Alex) Ko (Intercollegiate Sport Management Program; Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) together with his advisor, Minkyo Lee, assistant professor (Intercollegiate Sport Management Program), presented a research paper titled, “Sponsoring eSports to Facilitate Positive and Prevent Negative Image…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) was among the GBD 2021 Fertility and Forecasting Collaborators in authoring the article titled, “Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: A comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021,” in The Lancet (…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Effect of dietary selenium intake on cardiovascular disease: A retrospective cohort study based on China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data,” in the journal Public Health Nutrition (Impact factor 3.2) in collaboration with colleagues from Chongqing…
Melikabella Shenouda (Liberal Arts) published a creative writing piece titled, "flo(u)r: the in-between of autoimmunity and autonomy," in the inaugural issue of Coloring Psychoanalysis.
"Coloring Psychoanalysis is an online community periodical that centers Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) voices in psychoanalysis. We explicitly…
With a little guidance from his mother, the new director of Student Diversity Programs is ready to cheer on and empower UNLV's diverse student population.