Accomplishments: Women's Council
Kara Christensen Pacella and graduate students Hoor Ul Ain and Rosha Feizilighvan (all Psychology) presented their work at the International Conference for Eating Disorders in San Antonio, TX. Ain and Feizilighvan presented their posters, "Fasting Motivations in Muslim Women" and "ED-Motivated Sleep Behaviors are Associated with Higher ED-Related…
Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) and colleagues from University of Illinois Chicago and University of Kansas recently published "Ecological momentary assessment of between- and within-person sleep quality as a predictor of disordered eating behaviors among young women with disordered eating" in Appetite. This project stemmed from an honors…
Minnie Wood (Nursing) has been named the 2025 Public Health Hero by the Southern Nevada Health District for her contributions to creating a healthier, more resilient community. Wood works with several community partners and has collaborated with the health district on various projects to survey and educate the community. She will be recognized at…
Deborah Kuhls (Medicine), who serves as professor and chief of the Acute Care Surgery Division and associate dean of Research, received the Nevada Public Health Associations' Public Health Advocate Award on April 9, 2025 in recognition of her exceptional contributions to public health. This honor reflects her unwavering commitment and…
Bianca Ionescu, (Computer Science and Management Entrepreneurship, and Technology) a ºÚÁÏÍø CyberCorps SFS Scholar, was invited to present on the ºÚÁÏÍø Cyber Clinic at the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Conference that recently took place in Dallas, Texas.
WiCyS’ mission is to recruit, retain and advance women in cybersecurity to build a robust…
Amanda Hoffman (Center for Research, Evaluation, and Assessment) was awarded $10,000 from the Women in Measurement ResearcHER program to complete a project titled, "Evaluating the Impact of Faculty Advisor Relationships on the Job Preparedness and Career Goals of Graduate Students in Measurement."
Michelle Tusan (History) was a panelist for the Chamber of Commerce Women's History Month event.
LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has been elected as the Chair-Elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Research on Women in Education (RWE) Special Interest Group (SIG) for the upcoming year. This appointment follows her dedicated service as a committee co-chair…
Molly Ray, Kavita Batra, Kristina Domanski, and Ashley Barrile (all Medicine) presented their study titled "From Classroom to Clinical Practice: Incorporating Child Abuse Medicine into Emergency Medicine Resident Education" at the Western Medical Research Conference, held January 16-18, 2025, in Carmel, California. Dr. Ray, a former fellow in the…
Christina Hall (Jean Nidetch Care Center) authored a chapter in The Expanding Continuum of Gender-Based Violence: Trauma-Informed Care, Volume 1 titled, "Intimate Partner Violence and Sexually Transmitted Infections."
Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled “Global metabolomic alterations associated with endocrine-disrupting chemicals among pregnant individuals and newborns," in the journal Metabolomics, along with researchers from Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Michigan, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas, Ohio, Georgia and New York…
Leslie Griffin (Law) authored a new blog post on Verdict titled, "Sexual Abuse is NOT Charitable."