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Juliana Byzyka (Transportation Research Center) recently attended the 2024 Nevada Asphalt Conference: Sustainable and Resilient Pavement where she jointly presented with professor Mujib Rahman (Aston University, UK) and moderated the sessions of the final day. The topic of their presentation was “Infrared Heated Pothole Repairs: A Sustainable…

Chelsie Hawkinson (Education) and colleagues at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi and the University of Colorado - Boulder have published an article titled "Supporting Transition Needs of Early College Credit Students Through First-Year Seminars" in The Journal of The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. The study…

Assistant professor-in-residence Michael Chin (Honors College) published a work of creative non-fiction with Eunoia Review, titled "RUN-HIDE-FIGHT." The essay pairs reflections on his experience teaching at 51�ԹϺ��� during the tragic events of Dec. 6, 2023, with experiences from his youth

Michael McCreery (Interaction and Media Sciences) and Kathleen Krach (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) co-authored a paper with doctoral students Danielle Head, Joey Fiorentini, Zandy Leung, and Sam Leif (all Interaction and Media Sciences). The paper titled, “Examining player estimates of prior video gaming experience:…

Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez (Journalism and Media Studies) recently published "A Snapshot of Students at Hispanic Serving Institutions and their Pathways into Media Careers" in the Journal of Media Education. The study finds that familial obligations and ambiguous career expectations impact Latino students’ postgraduation career direction.…

Bobbie Barnes (Hospitality), Joanne Ullman (Psychology), Jenna Heath (Liberal Arts) and Melikabella Shenouda (Liberal Arts) have published an article titled "Educating the Educators: Preparing Faculty to Teach Career Readiness; a literature review" in Research Square. The article focuses on the demands for universities to equip students with…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), Ravi Batra, Ying Guo (both Public Health), Mina Atin (Nursing), and Bryar Shareef (Computer Science) co-authored a paper titled "Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence: Digital Monoculturalism in a Robotic World," published in the Advances in Medicine, Psychology, and Public Health journal. Dr. Kavita Batra, an…

Sidath Kapukotuwa (Social and Behavioral Health) has been awarded the Research Mini-Grant for $3,000 from the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, International Gaming Institute for the project titled, “Testing the efficacy of RESPONSIBLEPLAY©: MTM-based intervention for responsible gambling for college…

Brisa Rodriguez Alcantar (Social and Behavioral Health), Priyambda Kumra (Environmental and Occupational Health), Asma Awan, Christopher Johansen, and Manoj Sharma, (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented a poster tilted “A systematic review of interventions to increase physical activity behavior among Latino adults” at the American Public…