Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) presented "Over the Horizon," a paper drawn from her research on the concomitant rise of Las Vegas and military surveillance technology in the 1990s and 2000s at the Center for Communication and Culture, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon). The project seeks to examine theories of vision and urban growth…
Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored "Synthesizing Best Practices to Promote Health Equity for Older Adults Through Community-Engaged Research" in the journal, Research in Gerontological Nursing. This review article highlights how community-engaged research can help to promote health equity among older adults, including an…
Ung-Sang Lee and Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) are beginning work on a grant awarded by the National Science Foundation titled, Weaving Together Supports for the Academic Success and Racial Identity Development of Low Income and First-Generation AA&NHPI Students. This project is a research-…
Sara Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published, "Interleukin-15 responses to acute and chronic exercise in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis," in the journal Frontiers in Immunology. 
Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published an article, "Trends in forgone medical care and unmet needs among Medicare beneficiaries with a history of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national, repeated cross-sectional study," in the BMJ Open. 
Kavita Batra (Medicine) has been selected as one of few members to serve on the Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Practice Based Research Networks (AHRQ-PBRN). The goal of the TEP is to obtain insight regarding approaches or strategies for supporting the research of PBRNs and guidance for the…
Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) published a new article, "Weight bias internalization is positively associated with insomnia symptom severity in young women with disordered eating," in Sleep Health. Christensen Pacella and colleagues (lead author Kelsie Forbush, Ph.D., University of Kansas) published "Integrating 'Lumpers' Versus 'Splitters…
Vladislav Zhitny (NYU Anesthesiology Resident/UNLV Medicine Graduate), Kenny Do (UNLV Medical Student), Eric Kawana (UNLV Medical Student) published a systematic review regarding the radiation exposure of interventional pain physicians in the Pain Physician journal. Millions of interventional pain procedures are performed each year to address…
Vladislav Zhitny, Eric Kawana, Edgar Lopez (all Medicine) published a study, "An assessment of program information on pediatric anesthesiology fellowship websites," on the Wiley Online Library. This study evaluates and compares information on pediatric anesthesiology fellowship websites in the United States to identify areas for improvement. With…

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