Samantha Coogan (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) has received the 2020 Academic Assessment Award for an individual. This award is given by the office of the vice provost for academic programs and the office of academic assessment.     She was nominated by professor John Mercer and Dean Ronald Brown for her work to…

Soumya Upadhyay (Healthcare Administration and Policy) presented a webinar last month on "Healthcare Finance Issues During COVID Crisis." This webinar was attended by health care administration faculty, graduate students, and post-docs. She discussed the implications of surge capacity due to the COVID crisis on hospital capacity and capacity…

Seong-min Park, Shon Reed (both Criminal Justice), Jay J. Shen (Public Health), and Ji Won Yoo (Medicine) recently published an article, “The Effect of Marijuana Legalization on the Trajectories of Hard Drug–related Hospitalizations: A Growth Curve Analysis of the County-level State Inpatient Database in Washington, 2009–2015 ” in the Journal of…

The College of Liberal Arts has received the 2020 Academic Assessment Award for a department or unit from the office of the vice provost for academic programs and the office of academic assessment. The college has worked to engage community partners and incorporate high-impact practices in its internship programs, and support students as they…

Sai Kosaraju and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) published a conference paper, "PAGE-Net: Interpretable and Integrative Deep Learning for Survival Analysis Using Histopathological Images and Genomic Data," in Pacific Symposium Biocomputing, which is recognized as a top-tier bioinformatics conference as well as Intelligent Systems for Molecular…

Holly O'brien (Hospitality) recently was named a recipient of the 2020 UNLV Outstanding Teaching by Part-time Faculty Award. The award recognizes significant contributions to student learning by part-time teaching faculty.

Cindy Kha (Life Sciences) is the recipient of the next year’s President’s UNLV Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. This is the second consecutive year that a life sciences graduate student has been awarded this prestigious fellowship. Kha is a doctoral student whose advisor is professor Kelly Tseng. 

Xue Xing and Maximum A. Sirabian (both Teaching and Learning) recently published an article in Techniques, the flagship practitioner journal published by the Association for Career and Technical Education. The article, "Toward an Integrated Framework of Curriculum and Support for College and Career Readiness," calls for a truly…

Nicholas B. Irwin (Economics) recently published a paper, "Legacies of Lead: Estimating Home Buyer Response to Potential Lead Exposure" in Land Economics. The paper examines the responsiveness of potential homebuyers to a novel lead-risk disclosure program that designated some residential areas as high-risk for potential…