Assistant professor-in-residence Susana Sepulveda (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) presented on Chicanas and Latinas in the Riot Grrrl revival scenes in a roundtable panel titled, "West Coast Punks, Scene Kids, & Riot Grrrls: Fringe Memories and Survival in Precarious Times," at PopCon 2026 (March) hosted at USC in Los…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), whose primary research focuses on maternal and neonatal health, along with her GBD 2023 Maternal Mortality collaborators, co-authored a study in The Lancet: Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health titled, "Global, regional, and national levels and trends in maternal mortality, progress towards the Sustainable Development…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with the GBD 2021 AEMT collaborators, published "Global burden of adverse effects of medical treatment from 1990 to 2021: a Global Burden of Disease Study 2021" in the Korean Journal of Internal Medicine. Using GBD 2021 data from 204 countries, the study quantified the global burden of adverse effects of medical…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with Jagdish Khubchandani (New Mexico State University), Andrew Yockey (University of Mississippi), and Srikanta Banerjee (Walden University), co-authored an editorial in the Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health arguing that reporting study limitations is not just stylistic but an ethical responsibility,…

Kavita Batra, Aditi Singh, and Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (all Medicine) along with their collaborators, including former medical residents and colleagues from the University of California, San Francisco, presented their work as a poster and published the abstract in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) on "Characteristics and…

Two papers of Sai Phani Parsa, Euiseong Ko, Beomsu Baek, Sai Kosaraju, and Mingon Kang (all Computer Science) have been accepted at the International conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2026. ISMB is widely considered the world's largest and most prestigious flagship conference in bioinformatics and…

UNLV Boxing was the host of the 2026 USIBA National College Boxing Tournament held at the Westgate Resort and Casino. We'd like to congratulate three of our Rebels who walked away with championship belts! Terrill Joiner - 188 lbs. Beginner Asa Dawson - 225+ Beginner Terrill Joiner - 160 lbs. Novice

Miranda Hannasch's (English) digital humanities project We'll Hear a Play was recently featured as one of five digital exhibits at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference in Denver. Her scholarly website seeks to broaden the accessibility of digital theatre by providing a searchable database of free online performances of early modern…

After 18 months of rigorous study and leadership development, Liliana Garcia (Music) has been awarded the Certified Public Manager® (CPM) designation. This marks the first time a member of the College of Fine Arts has reached this professional milestone. Distinct from a standard academic certificate, this national designation involves an 18-month…