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Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored an article titled “The effect of next-generation, dual-active-ingredient, long-lasting insecticidal net deployment on insecticide resistance in malaria vectors in Benin: results of a 3-year, three-arm, cluster-randomised, controlled…

Mark Buttner (Environmental and Occupational Health) received a one-year grant from the Clark County School District to continue the Airborne Pollen Monitoring project, which provides updated pollen and mold spore counts for the Las Vegas area. In 2013, 51�ԹϺ��� partnered with the Clark County School District to establish the program in order to…

On Nov. 15, Stefano Boselli (Theatre) presented his paper, “Large Production, Big History: The Actor-Network Dramaturgy of Good Bye Mister Freud through Space and Time,” during the “Big Histories: Experimental Methods for Tracking Change Across Bodies, Generations, and Geographies in Performance” Working Session at the American Society for Theatre…

From Nov. 7 to 10, Stefano Boselli (Theatre) participated in the 121st Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference, “Translation in Action,” held in Palm Springs, CA. As part of his contributions, Boselli organized the Drama and Society I and II standing sessions and presented his paper, “Shipwrecked in Paradise: Expanding…

Ligia Verduga (Music) is a DMA student in the 51�ԹϺ��� flute studio of John McMurtery. She has been invited to Sofia, Bulgaria, for the Moyse International Flute Competition on June 29, 2025, to present a lecture on her research topic "Ecuadorian Influences on the Flute Repertoire." Furthermore, the organizers of the competition have invited her to be…

Discussing the exploration of policy and cannabis at the center of the Cannabis Policy Institute's recent Cannabis Policy Institute Symposium, director Riana Durrett (Cannabis Policy Institute) spoke with the Weed Wonks podcast for a newly released episode. Episode 97 covers the impact of legal cannabis in Nevada, cannabis and the gaming industry…

Sarah Quigley (Special Collections & Archives) is co-author of a report, Creating Ethical Temporary Positions in Archives: Best Practices and Case Studies, published by the Council on Library and Information Resources. The report outlines challenges with contingent labor at cultural heritage organizations and offers guidelines…

Talha Soluoku (Neuroscience) and James M. Hyman (Psychology) recently published an article in Neuron titled, "Complexity demands more flexibility and the prefrontal cortex has an answer." This article provides context about a recent finding showing that in tasks with greater complexity, the medial prefrontal cortex helps to switch between…

Alexandra Nur (Criminal Justice) recently published an article in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation that unpacks substantive differences between persons who voluntarily drop prison programs and those who are administratively discharged from prison programs. Results from this study are impactful for informing prison program retention…