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Sherry Bell, Brandon Ranuschio, Lianne Barnes, and Renato M. Liboro (all Psychology), and the CHAMPION Mental Health research lab team, recently published their article, "Pandemic upon Pandemic: Middle-Aged and Older Men Who Have Sex with Men Living with HIV Coping and Thriving during the Peak of COVID-19," in the International Journal of…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) presented an invited paper titled, "Public Opinion on National Defense in Taiwan: One Year after the Ukraine Crisis," in the Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region 2023 Annual Conference at Hoover Institute, Stanford University on May 22-23, 2023. In this article, he analyzed…
Mehmet Erdem, Murray Mackenzie, and Jungsun (Sunny) Kim (all Hospitality) were recently recognized with the Boyd Distinguished Professor Award for their meritorious performance. The Boyd Awards are a yearly recognition of faculty achievement in the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality. Boyd awards are presented for the categories of…
Bryson Carrier (Integrated Health Sciences Ph.D. program), Macy Helm (Integrated Health Sciences Ph.D. program), Kyle Cruz (MS Kinesiology), and Brenna Barrios (MS Kinesiology) recently published an article titled, "Validation of Aerobic Capacity (VO2max) and Lactate Threshold in Wearable Technology for Athletic Populations," in the journal…
Postdoctoral research fellow Kasra Ghaharian (International Gaming Institute) and Ph.D. student Mana Azizsoltani (Hospitality) delivered a presentation on “Payments Data in Gambling Research” at Park MGM on May 25, 2023, at the 18th International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking, hosted the by the UNLV International Gaming…
Professor Benjamin Edwards led a panel on The Evolving ESG Landscape at the International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking at Park MGM on May 24, 2023, at 18th International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking, hosted the by the UNLV International Gaming Institute.
Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) in collaboration with researchers from Arizona State University, has published a paper on Foliar functional and genetic variation in a keystone Hawaiian tree species estimated through spectroscopy in the journal Oecologia. This study examined the potential for imaging spectroscopy to distinguish varieties of a…
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