Kathryn Houk (Libraries) was recently interviewed on the Network of the National Library of Medicine Discovery Podcast about how the UNLV School of Medicine Library, with support from Jen Culley in UNLV Libraries Acquisitions, utilized a Collection Equity Outreach Award to improve their Health Humanities Collection. The award allowed for…

Richard Miller (Music), Katrina Liu (Teaching and Learning), and Arnetha F. Ball (Stanford Graduate School of Education) have published an article in the journal Thresholds in Education, 46(1) titled, "Misunderstanding the Campaign Against CRT: Absurdity and White Supremacy in Attacks on Teaching and Teacher Education." Part of a special issue, "…

Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) authored a paper titled, "Effect of Transmission and Vaccination on Time to Dominance of Emerging Viral Strains: A Simulation-Based Studyb" in the Special Issue: Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Modelling of the journal Microorganisms.  The study uses a factorial treatment design in a simulation-…

UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hospitality was again ranked best in the nation and number two in the world for hospitality and leisure management by the 2023 QS World Universities ranking. UNLV was the only U.S. school ranked inside the category’s top 15. 

Chia-Liang (Leo) Dai (Teaching and Learning) was selected as the 2023 recipient of the American School Health Association’s (ASHA) School Health Professional of the Year Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize an individual who has demonstrated sustained, outstanding contributions to school health education and/or research. The recipient…

Michael J Alarid (History) was named as a winner of this years College of Liberal Arts’ Diversity Award. This award is given in recognition for outstanding scholarly work. 

Alyssa Crittenden (Anthropology), vice provost for Graduate Education and dean of the Graduate College, presented at an international workshop on hunter-gatherer education at the University of Tromso in Norway. She was one of only two U.S. participants and joined colleagues from around the world, including Botswana, Cameroon, Namibia, Tanzania,…

Jay Shen, Betty Burston, Soumya Upadhyay (Healthcare Administration and Policy), with their collaborating researchers in China, recently published a paper, "Epidemiological/Disease and Economic Burdens of Cervical Cancer in 2010–2014: Are Younger Women at Risk?," on Healthcare. 

Buddha Dawn and Guangming Cheng (both Medicine) wrote an invited editorial in the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. In this article titled, “Myocardial regeneration and the enigma of the immune cells,” Drs. Dawn and Cheng discuss the complex and poorly understood roles played by various subsets of immune cells in cell therapy-induced…