Łukasz Sznajder (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has received an Early Career Research in Myotonic Dystrophy Award ($140K) from the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation. His project, titled “Probing Expanded RNA Species and Their Role in DM2,” focuses on understanding how specific RNA molecules containing expanded CCUG repeats may contribute to myotonic…
Professor Mary LaFrance (Law) has published a new book chapter, "Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights in the United States," in Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights (edited by Daniel Gervais & João Pedro Quintais, Wolters Kluwer, 2025).
Professor Mary Beth Beazley (Law) was presented with the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Award at the Twenty-Third Annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference. The award recognizes individuals for their contributions to legal writing and education.
Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), along with researchers from Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Canada, coauthored a paper titled, “Prenatal PFAS exposures and cardiometabolic health in middle childhood in the MIREC cohort," in the journal Environmental Research. The paper examined prenatal exposure to…
Professor Mary LaFrance (Law) published her new book Music Law in the Nutshell through West Academic Publishing.  
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "The Transversal Spirit of the Feminist Strike" in Los Angeles Review of Books.
Daniel Allen (Psychology) was awarded $672,779 from Nevada Department of Health and Human Services for the Nevada Rural Communities Mental Health Outreach Program (RHOP) and $186,909 for the RHOP Expansion program. RHOP provides telebehavioral health counseling services to adolescents living in Elko and Humboldt counties. RHOP Expansion provides…
Sara Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), graduate student Donya Shahmati (Nutrition Sciences), and Richard Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues from Kansas State University, recently published "Perceptions of meat and dairy foods among college students at a land-grant institution: an observational,…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a policy report, "The war in Ukraine is influencing how Taiwanese think about conflict," in Brookings. In this report, Wang summarizes recent academic publications on Taiwanese willingness to fight, and how the ongoing Ukraine crisis influences the public opinion in Taiwan. 

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