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Celene Fuller (Sociology) was recently announced as the 2025-2026 Robert E. Lang Memorial Fellow. The Robert E. Lang Memorial Fellowship is awarded annually to an outstanding 8kbet Ph.D. student completing a dissertation in metropolitan public policy broadly defined with special consideration given to applicants focusing their research on the…

Jace Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published a paper, "An especially hidden population: sexual and gender minority dementia caregivers," with colleagues in the Alzheimer's & Dementia journal. This study found that sexual and gender minority  caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias…

Holmes Scholar Mayra Marquez-Mendez, Ph.D., (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Tina Vo, Ph.D., (Teaching and Learning) presented their work titled, “Understanding Science Teachers’ Support Needs: Assessing the Reliability of a Support-Seeking Instrument,” at the 2025 Annual American Educational Research…

Tiange Xu (Hospitality), Shane Kraus (Psychology), and colleagues recently published a paper, "Beyond Sports Betting Legalization: Comparing Problem Gambling Risk Patterns in Legal and Illegal States," in the Journal of Gambling Studies. Their research examines how problem gambling risk factors differ between states with legalized sports betting…

Jessica Impallaria, M.Ed. '08 (Liberal Arts) received an Outstanding Service Award from CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Las Vegas and the Eighth Judicial District Court during the 10th annual volunteer appreciation luncheon held April 26, 2025. Jessica was recognized for her compassionate advocacy for children in foster care and the…

Professor Marketa Trimble (Law) delivered a presentation to the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, titled, "The Current Development of U.S. Copyright Law in Light of the Current Political Situation and of the Interests of Major Stakeholders."

Danesha Hunter (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave presentations at the American Water Resources Associate 2025 Spring Conference in Anchorage, AK titled, "Applying Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) to Characterize Trace Elements in Water Samples Around Lake Mead." Hunter is a graduate student in the environmental health…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health), Lung-Chang Chien, Chad Cross, Edom Gelaw (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and colleagues published an article on "Towards optimization of community vulnerability indices for COVID-19 prevalence" in the journal BMC Public Health. In this study the team established a practical approach to…

Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) co-authored a research article with faculty colleagues from three other universities titled, "Structure and Longitudinal Invariance of the Multicultural Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills Survey – Counselor Edition – Revised," published in the Journal of Measurement…