Jared Lau (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) has been elected as the 2023-2026 secretary of Counselors for Social Justice (CSJ), an official national division of the American Counseling Association. CSJ works to promote social justice in our society through confronting oppressive systems of power and privilege that…
Candace Burton (Nursing) has received a research grant from the International Association of Forensic Nurses. The funded project, titled "Improving Strangulation Case Finding: A qualitative natural language study," will collect data from survivors of strangulation assaults to better understand how patients describe these experiences. Strangulation…
Richard R. Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues at Kansas State University, published "Differences in physical activity behaviors between university women from metropolitan, micropolitan, and rural areas" in the Journal of American College Health.
Tim Gauthier (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) contributed a chapter, "Circumventing the Condemnation Imperative: The Figure of the Female Suicide Bomber in Akin and El Akkad," to The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature and Visual Culture (Edinburgh University Press).
David Tanenhaus (Law) is delivering a plenary address on Juvenile and Family Case Law since Dobbs at the 86th Annual Conference of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges on July 19.
Published: Jaimi Garlington, Cass Shum, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt, Laura Book
Jaimi Garlington (Hospitality), Cass Shum (Hospitality), Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (Psychology), and Laura Book (Hospitality) recently published their paper, “'What it do?' The effects of racial code-switching on industry turnover intention," in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. The paper questions the practice…
Lydia Nussbuam (Law) published a book review, co-authored with Jennifer Reynolds (University Oregon School of Law), in the Negotiation Journal: "Activist Mediators, Mediator Activists: The Neutrality Trap."
David Tanenhaus (Law), James E. Rogers professor of history and law, is teaching an intensive one-week seminar in July for judges on the history and theory of jurisprudence for the Judicial Studies Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) and colleagues at University of Kentucky (led by Matthew Southward, Ph.D.) and the Ohio State University recently published in Journal of Affective Disorders, "Protective factors in borderline personality disorder: A multi-study analysis of conscientiousness, distress tolerance, and self-compassion."
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.