Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Verve Student Program, Methos A. Liau-Chrones

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The Verve Student Program's purpose is to aid students in the problems they may face, such as bullying, depression, and lack of responsibility.

Book And Buddies Mentorship, Nichole Peterson

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Books and Buddies offer one-on-one mentorship to struggling readers, with the goals of increasing reading comprehension, oral reading skills, and overall reading proficiency.

Volunteering At Catholic Charities Of Southern Nevada, Thu Pham

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Catholic Charities provides services for the homeless and needy, family programs, and adoption services.

Project 150, Melanie Romero

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project 150 is designed to provide for homeless high school students. It was established in December of 2011 they provide teens with meal bags and school supplies.

The Transition, Jason Rosser

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Students are currently not being prepared well enough to make the transition from high school to college.

Arbor View High School Bands, Jason Vazquez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The purpose of Arbor View High School Bands is to educate high school students about the subject of music.

Community Lutheran Church, Justin Gelabert

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Community Lutheran battled food insecurities by holding weekly afterschool programs to pass out food to underprivileged children, held festivals with free food and community outreach to bring those in need towards the church, and a monthly “Feel Good Fridays” to give back to the community and those in need.

Volunteering With Project F.O.C.U.S., Chasen Billon

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project F.O.C.U.S. is addressing the issue of education for those with developmental disabilities. This is an important ‘focus’—especially here in Nevada.

Project 150, Christina Perez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The goals of Project 150 include helping disadvantaged teens receive the basic necessities they need to survive, to influence them to graduate high school, and to bring the community together.

Project Focus, Glen-Marie Quintanilla

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project FOCUS addresses the lack of inclusion within the higher education environment.

Innovations International Charter School, Rachel Ugarte

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Innovations International Charter School was built to be a school where students have the resources necessary to academically succeed.

Nevada Digital Newspaper Project, Carrie Gaxiola, Marina Georgieva, Yvonne Wilk

Library Faculty Presentations

Chronicling America is a nation-wide project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to make historical newspapers available online and full text searchable. Nevada has participated in the project since 2014. Each grant cycle lasts two years and produces 100,000 digitized news pages for online access. Title selection is guided by an Advisory Board to represent each county of Nevada. These newspapers are the first draft of history, show the daily lives, perspectives, and events of the past. Much of the content offers rich research material within the topics of women’s rights and suffrage, …

Working At Goodwill And What It Has Taught Me, Joseph Cheney

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Goodwill works to provide clothing at reasonable prices, and provide places to recycle and reuse clothing.

Three Square, Michael Gallardo

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Three Square works to provide food services to those experiencing food insecurity in the Las Vegas area.

Child Development, Theresa Harris

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The history and purpose of the Nellis Air Force Base Child Care Center is to provide a safe learning environment for developing children of military families.

Youth Activism: How A Country Wide High School Competition Can Lead To The Change Of Tomorrow, Carlos Mejia Castillo

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

An increase in youth activism is important in order to establish the laws and economic stability that will be beneficial for us in the long term.

F.O.C.U.S.: Forming Occupational And Community Understanding For Success, Stephen Phillips

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issues our program address revolve around equality and inclusion.

Project 150: High School Is Tough Enough, Jesus Ramirez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project 150’s social issue is homelessness, mainly focused on youth Homelessness

Project Focus, Sean Rogers

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project FOCUS is an inclusive, accessible, and productive career education program for college-aged students with intellectual disabilities in the Las Vegas area.

The Latino Youth Leadership Alumni, Maria Sanchez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issue the LYLA addresses is young minorities, specifically undocumented youth immigrants.

Project 150, Shawn Shoshani

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project 150 assists homeless students in high schools within Nevada who don't have access to basic necessities.

Lighthouse Charities, Minwhee Jin

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issue that LightHouseCharities address is the issues of refugees' and at-risk families’ resettlement.

John D. Jackie Gaughan Boys And Girls Club, Morgan Small

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The John D. Jackie Gaughan Boys and Girls Club addresses at risk youth and juvenile deliquency by providing programs and activities geared towards the positive development of at-risk youth.

Victimization: Its Impact On Masculinity And Criminal Offending, Shon M. Reed, Alexis Kennedy

Graduate Research Symposium (2018 - present)

Male victims are an underrepresented group within society. Prior research has indicated that male vic,ms may feel a diminished sense of their own masculinity. Criminology has iden,fied that masculinity does play a role in some men’s decisions to engage in criminal behavior (Messerschmidt, 1993, 2016). It seems logical that these two concepts would be related. Utlizing self­‐reported data from 135 college males, the current study analyzes the rela,onship between childhood vic,miza,on, masculinity beliefs, and the decision to engage in criminal/delinquent behavior.

Media Portrayals Of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Content Analysis Of Julia From Sesame Street Using The Childhood Autism Rating Scale (Cars2) And Stigmatizing Frames, Sallyann Ficarrotta

Graduate Research Symposium (2018 - present)

Previous research has shown media portrayals of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as grossly exaggerated and inaccurate. Julia is not depicted as having high-functioning autism, but most of the exaggerated portrayals depicted in movies and television are of a person on that end of the spectrum. The current study, a quantitative content analysis of Julia from Sesame Street, draws from framing theory (specifically stigmatizing cues) and utilizes the professional assessment tool, the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS2). The tool was used to rate the severity of Julia’s autism symptomology. Less socially stigmatizing cues were found in this media content than …

Is It Still Impossible To Be Black And American, Darrian Carroll

Graduate Research Symposium (2018 - present)

Rhetorical ideographic criticism of Bill Clinton's speeches.

The Connections Between Government Structure And Direct Democracy, Michael Joseph Biesiada

Graduate Research Symposium (2018 - present)

The purpose of this prospectus is to examine county-level contextual factors that impact direct democracy mechanisms and voter turnout. The prospectus contains two essays that build upon each other with fitting theoretical frameworks. The first essay investigates the impact of contextual factors on a county government’s decision to permit citizen initiatives. This essay applies new institutionalism theory to understand the current connections between government structure and direct democracy mechanisms within U.S. counties. County governments play a vital role in American democracy, yet little is known about why some counties permit direct democracy mechanisms while others do not. I address a …

Assessing Bias In Regression Estimates Using Monte Carlo Simulations: Examples In Criminal Justice Research, Matthew P. West, Melissa Rorie, Mark A. Cohen

Graduate Research Symposium (2018 - present)

Can we trust published results? Problems with bias in reported results: “Do social scientists even know anything?” Failed replications (“repligate”). Inaccurate inferences about important relationships (Type I and Type II errors). Inaccurate power analyses for future studies. To avoid these problems, researchers need tools to rigorously evaluate statistical models. The Monte Carlo method is one tool that can be used to evaluate bias in model estimates

The Day Of The Merchant, Lewis Karstensson

Molasky Family Department of Economics and Real Estate Faculty Research

An examination of economic thought in a “national order.” Considered, in particular, is the economic doctrine of the seventeenth century English merchant, Thomas Mun. Remnants of this doctrine in current economic thought are also examined.

Orcid Integration At The Unlv Libraries, A.L. Carson, Matthew Murray, John Novak

Library Faculty Research

As of spring 2018, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries is in the middle of its ORCID implementation for campus. The process began in late 2016, when UNLV became premium members of ORCID through a deal negotiated by the Greater Western Library Alliance. ORCID provides researchers with a persistent digital identifier, which disambiguates individuals and allows them to receive proper attribution and credit for their work.

As premium members, the Libraries would receive reports from ORCID about researcher activity and have access to the ORCID API. With the API, the Libraries could receive notifications of our campus research …