From History to Celebration: Exploring Lunar New Year with UNLV’s Sands Institute
Huajing Maske, director of the UNLV Sands Institute for Chinese Language and Culture, breaks down the traditions, symbolism behind the Year of the Fire Horse celebrations.
UNLV professor explains how new research on gene editing could fix high cholesterol
It’s very early stage research, tried in only a few dozen people so far. But gene-editing approaches being developed by two companies show hints that switching off certain genes could dramatically lower artery-clogging cholesterol, raising hopes of one day being able to prevent heart attacks without having to take pills, the Associated Press reports.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is characterized by mood variations with a change in season, especially during the winter months, with reduced daylight.
Cortez Masto, GOP senator propose USMCA travel, tourism trade working group
Tourism is a major economic driver in Nevada, and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is pushing new bipartisan legislation aimed at giving the industry a stronger voice in international trade talks.
CBER Report: Nevada Led the Nation in Post-Pandemic Small Business Growth
New analysis by UNLV's Center for Business and Economic Research shows that 40 percent of Nevada’s employer firms were created after COVID-19 as new entrepreneurs reshaped the state’s recovery.
Dr. Vishisht Mehta (Medicine) and his colleague Dr. Sameer K Avasarala published their original research titled, "Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence Among Pulmonologists," in the European Respiratory Journal Open Research. This paper reflects the results of their survey of pulmonologists assessing their familiarity, comfort and usage of…
Mayumi Ajioka, Ph.D., (World Languages and Cultures), co-presenting with Yumiko Kawanishi, Ph.D., (UCLA), presented a practice-oriented paper titled, “A Path to Confident Conversation Participants Using PBI Class Activities,” at the 2025 ACTFL Convention in New Orleans on Nov. 21, 2025.
The presentation introduced practical classroom activities…
Lung-Chang Chien, Edom Gelaw (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health), and colleagues published an article titled, “Tracking COVID-19 vaccination barriers over time: a census-tract-level barrier index approach,” in the journal Epidemiology and Infection.
This study developed a dynamic, census-tract-…
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