Yuri Graves (Police Services) recently was elected president for Region IX of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM). The region includes Nevada, Arizona, California, Hawaii, and the Pacific Trust Territories, including American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. He will take the oath of office at the annual IAEM…

Javon Johnson (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) is the 2019 recipient of the Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies awarded by the National Communication Association (NCA). The award is given annually for outstanding published research and creative scholarship in interpretation and…

Kwang Kim and Hui Zhao (both Mechanical Engineering) are the principal investigator and co-principal investigator, respectively, for a $292,932 grant recently awarded to UNLV by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to establish an advanced volumetric particle image velocimetry (PIV) system and flow channel for fluid mechanics research and…

The Investor Protection Clinic at the William S. Boyd School of Law, which is headed by professor Benjamin P. Edwards (Law), secured what appears to be the nation's first victory for a case asserting a claim under Nevada's first-in-the-nation fiduciary statute.  The Wall Street Journal covered the victory and explained that the win highlights…

Yong Li (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) and Ilan Vertinsky of the University of British Columbia were awarded an Insight Grant of $74,582 (Canadian dollars) for 2019-22 by the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada,  an organization similar to the National Science Foundation, with a focus on social sciences. The grant…

David G. Schwartz (Faculty Affairs) presented a talk, "Jay Sarno's Wild Ride" as part of the Clark County Library's Las Vegas Stories series. The event attracted a number of notable figures, including associates and relatives of Mr. Sarno, who was the subject of Schwartz's 2013 biography Grandissimo: The First Emperor of Las Vegas.

Joshua J. Goldman (Medicine) recently was chosen as the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Associate Fellow member of the Committee on Ethics. The position tenure is three years, and according to the ACS, the charge of the committee is to "provide the Board of Regents with a means for deliberation and preparation of ethical issues which the…

Nicholas Irwin (Economics) had his paper,"Legacies of Lead — Estimating Homebuyer Response to Potential Lead Exposure," accepted for publication in Land Economics.

Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Inhibition of Osteoclastogenesis by Opsonized Porphyromonas Gingivalis,” which investigated pathogenesis of periodontal disease and the role of specific adaptive immune responses, as well as the effects of antibodies on porphyromonas gingivalis-induced osteoclasts differentiation and function. The article…