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…

Rebecca Gill (Political Science) has been elected to the American Political Science Association (APSA) Council. APSA is the leading professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 11,000 members in more than 100 countries. The council serves as the APSA governing body, setting the strategic direction and…

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…

Saruna Ghimire and Francisco S. Sy (both Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article on the "Decline in Telomere Length by Age and Effect Modification by Gender, Allostatic Load and Comorbidities in National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2002)" in the journal PLOS ONE. This study aimed to assess the…

Ashkan Salamat (Physics and Astronomy) was one of just 46 university professors nationwide – and the first from UNLV – to earn an Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) office of science. Each year, the DOE selects rising researchers from the nation’s national labs and universities for the …

Dr. Monique "Flora" Phipps and Fiona Britton (both Dental) have been inducted into the Omicron Kappa Upsilon dental honor society, Psi Omega chapter, in the Faculty Member and Honorary Member categories, respectively. Faculty member inductees are full-time or part-time teachers at a dental school who have made outstanding contributions to the art…

Nick MacMurray and Robert Futrell (both Sociology) recently published "Ecological Death Reform and Death System Change" in Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. They explain how ecologically-minded spiritualists, designers, scientists, and entrepreneurs link past traditions with new technologies to develop more environmentally-sensitive and…