Accomplishments: Greenspun College of Urban Affairs
Erika Engstrom (Communication Studies) made two presentations at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Chicago in August. The first was a refereed paper titled "What Happens to the 'Cream of the Crop'?: The Representative Anecdote in AMC's Mad Men." The second was a panel presentation…
An-Pyng Sun (Social Work) published a peer-reviewed article, "Helping Homeless Individuals with Co-Occurring Disorders: The Four Components," in Social Work, a premium journal in the social work field. She also wrote a chapter, "Gender, Substance Use, and Substance Use Disorders," for Chemical Dependency: A Systems Approach (2012). Additionally…
An-Pyng Sun (Social Work), Chih-Hsiang Ho (Math), and Larry Ashley (Educational and Clinical Studies) wrote an article, "Addiction and Substance Abuse among Nevada Youth," which appeared in The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State (2012, Edited by Dmitri N. Shalin of Sociology). Sun and Ashley also…