The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Marketing and Communications Department is proud to announce they have won another Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) Health+Wellness Design Awards for 2026.  GDUSA, greatly respected in the world of graphic design, has been a source of news and information for designers and the broader creative…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored and published a study "Burden of non-communicable diseases and their attributable risk factors in Africa from1990 to 2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023," in the Lancet Global Health journal. This study found that Africa's progress lags behind global improvements, with NCDs…

Min Ju Kang, Nathaniel LaBarre, Michael Karo, and Rachel Soong (all Medicine), under the mentorship of Thomas Vida, Ph.D. (Medicine), co-authored the study, “Illuminating Risk: An Ecological Analysis of Artificial Light at Night and Childhood Myopia Using State-Level US Data,” published in Risk Management and Healthcare Policy. The study used…

Michael Chin (Honors) published a short story with California State University, Stanislaus's literary journal, Penumbra titled "Friendsgiving."

Barbara Lewis (Public Health) presented her research on hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils to Medi-Sota, a consortium of 39 rural healthcare organizations in Minnesota.

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article, titled “Burden of non-communicable diseases and their attributable risk factors in Africa from 1990 to 2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023” as a senior collaborator with GBD 2023 Africa NCD collaborators in Lancet Global Health (Impact factor…

Wendy Rein (Libraries) is the recipient of the 2026 American Library Association Century Scholarship. Rein, '25 Communication Studies, is pursuing a Master of Library and Information Sciences degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Information School, and currently work as an Information Literacy Fellow in the University Libraries.

The paper “A Single-Pass Generative Framework for Intrinsic Dense Visual Explanations,” coauthored by Hongbi Jeong, An Huang, Zuobin Xiong, and Junggab Son (all Computer Science), has been accepted in Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2026), a renowned conference in Computer Vision.

Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored a paper titled “Decreasing prevalence in youth depressive episodes: Evidence from the 2021-2024 national survey on drug use and health” in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, along with researchers from Mississippi, Florida, Kentucky and Illinois. The study examined changes in depressive…