Accomplishments: Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences

The Nevada Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics held the annual meeting on the UNLV campus on April 27. Two UNLV students, Kristine Wilson and Christopher Acosta (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) were recognized for state-level awards. Wilson was named the Outstanding Dietetics Student - Dietetic Internship Program, and Acosta was named…
Arpita Basu (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), Leigh Ann Richardson and Lung-Chang Chien (both Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published the research paper Longitudinal associations of the alternative healthy eating index with coronary artery calcification and pericardial adiposity in US adults with and without type 1 diabetes in the…
Graham McGinnis and his former doctoral student, Michael Dial (both in Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), published a research article in the Journal of Applied Physiology titled, "Social jet lag impairs exercise volume and attenuates physiological and metabolic adaptations to voluntary exercise training." This work highlights how…
Dr. Nate Hollister (Emergency Medicine) and his colleague Scott McDonald (Kinesiology) organized the Circus Meets Medicine conference held at UNLV on March 22, 2024. The conference featured live demonstrations from artists as well as speakers discussing perspectives from elite performers and experts on injury management, biomechanics, and well-…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health), Kara Radzak (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), & Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health), presented a paper titled, "A Theory-Based Approach to Explain the Correlates of Safe Physical Activity in Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals," at the 75th Society for Public Health Education (…
James W. Navalta, Graham R. McGinnis, and a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences program Elias M. Malek (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) published a paper titled, "Exercise in a natural environment increases program compliance in people with chronic migraine: A pilot cross-over randomized trial," in the Journal of…
John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Science; UNLV Sports Innovation Institute) and Andrew Craig-Jones, a UNLV alum now assistant professor at Augusta University, were the senior and lead author on the paper "The effect of compression garments on biomechanical and physiological factors" in Biomechanics. This paper also was co-authored by James…
Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Leigh Ann Richardson (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Alicia Carlos (Dental), Neamat Hassan (Dental), Robin Weltman (Dental), and Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) conducted an interdisciplinary collaborative research published in Nutrients. The publication is titled, "The Associations of…
Associate professor Brach Poston (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and senior academic advisor John Starkey (Business) are the recipients of this year's UNLV Academic Advisor Awards. The UNLV Academic Advisor awards recognize individuals with an exceptional record of advising and supporting students. Their award applications have been forwarded…
Sara Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published, "Interleukin-15 responses to acute and chronic exercise in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis," in the journal Frontiers in Immunology. 
Sara Rosenkranz (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published Effects of treadmill training on myelin proteomic markers and cerebellum morphology in a rat model of cuprizone-induced toxic demyelination in the Journal of Neuroimmunology. 
Richard Rosenkranz and Sara Rosenkranz (both Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences) along with colleagues from Kansas State University recently published "Are lifestyle behaviors associated with excellent self-rated health among American adolescents? A cross-sectional study" in the Journal of Healthy Eating & Active Living.