Field of Dreams

To the new executive director of the UNLV Research Foundation, the university’s planned research park is 115 acres of opportunity

Revisiting the Value of Research

Sure, they’re interesting research stories. But what does research really mean to UNLV, to the community, and to you

End Notes

Several early faculty were committed to research at a relatively unlikely time in UNLV’s history. What can we learn from them

Mindfulness as an Effective Strategy for Anxiety Relief in Adolescent Patients

Anxiety disorders affect 6.8 million adults over the age of 18 in the United States, and anxiety disorders are the most common mental health illness in children. Risk Factors for anxiety disorders in young adults include the following: -Shyness, or behavioral inhibition, in childhood -Being of the female sex -Having few economic resources -Exposure to stressful life events in childhood -Anxiety disorders in close biological relatives -Parental history of mental disorders -Elevated afternoon cortisol levels in the saliva Teens and young adults increasingly suffer from anxiety disorders with the CDC reporting the rate of anxiety disorders among 3 to 17 year olds in the range of 3% with current symptoms to 4.7% having ever reported having anxiety. Mindfulness or the ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overwhelmed by what’s going on around us, can be effective means to manage stress and anxiety symptoms. Primary care physicians can introduce and practice mindfulness strategies within patient visits in addition to or replacement for management with medications.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk/1349/thumbnail.jp

Research Dollars and Sense

Why embrace research during tough economic times

Book review: The Infographic: a history of data graphics in news and communications by Murray Dick

In The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications, Murray Dick offers a new cultural history of the infographic, tracing its emergence and development in Britain from the eighteenth century. The book succeeds in offering an account of an evolving media form, showing the infographic to be a contradictory tool, one developed to persuade select upper-class audiences that slowly became a form of mass communication, writes Sam di Bella

Book review: Cut/copy/paste: fragments from the history of bookwork by Whitney Trettien

In Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork, Whitney Trettien explores how seventeenth-century English publishers cut up and reassembled paper media into radical, bespoke publications, arguing that this ‘bookwork’ contributes to understanding digital scholarship and publishing today. Through its magnetic prose that narrates weird and joyous entanglements with the printed word, Trettien reveals that the lives of books are longer and stranger than we imagine, writes Sam di Bella. Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork. Whitney Trettien. University of Minnesota Press. 2021

A Healthy Dose of Research

UNLV’s School of Public Health conducts a variety of research projects to help address pressing community health concerns

A Career Achievement

Meet several UNLV recipients of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER Award, the highly competitive grant designed to establish leadership in education and research. - Brian Hedlund - Jennifer Rennels - Dong-Chan Lee - Frank van Breukelen - Sajjad Ahma