Priyambda Kumra (Public Health) wrote a blog post "On Getting Vaccinated Against HPV" published on Shot@Life, an advocacy campaign of the United Nations Foundation. In the article, Kumra shares her HPV vaccination story, dispels myths about the vaccine, and calls for expanding access. Kumra is a graduate student.
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) co-authored the article, "Taiwanese Support for Self-Defense after the Russo–Ukrainian War," in Asian Survey. In this article, Wang and others analyzed the a series of representative surveys in Taiwan right before and after the 2022 Russo-Ukraininan War, and found that Taiwanese people polarized…
Scott Jackson (Accounting) and his co-authors received the Teaching Innovation Award from the Forensic Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association at this year’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The award is based on a case study the authors developed to teach students about financial statement and Fraud Triangle analyses in a real…
Clariana Ramos de Oliveira from (Nursing) presented her research titled, "Trajectories of Maternal Mental Health and Child Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic," at the Sigma International Nursing Conference 2024 in Singapore. This prestigious conference, renowned for its focus on advancing global nursing science and practice, provided a…
Clariana Ramos de Oliveira from (Nursing) has authored a chapter titled, "Social Determinants of Health in Child Maltreatment," in the book Mental Health Issues of Child Maltreatment (STM Learning, 2023). This chapter delivers a thorough examination of how social determinants influence child abuse and neglect, offering a comprehensive,…
 Madeline Clark (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published a textbook: Multicultural Social Justice Counseling: A Systemic, Person-Centered, and Ethical Approach. 
Anirudh Polagani (The Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West) recently had their op-ed, "Still overdependent on tourism after all these years," published in the Nevada Current. The piece insites a call to action for Las Vegas to continue to invest in building a robust and diverse economy and lessen its reliance on the tourism sector.
Siddharth Raich, Christopher Johansen, Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health), Neeraj Bhandari (Healthcare Administration), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an article, titled, “Developing a theory-based instrument for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake in people of color using a qualitative approach,” in the journal Healthcare (…
Neda Akhavan (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published Personalized Nutrition: Tailoring Dietary Recommendations through Genetic Insights in the journal Nutrients. 

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