Jacklyn Newsome (Life Sciences) successfully defended her master's thesis in the Schiller Laboratory of Applied Bioinformatics in December. She worked on personalized diets and a new single-cell technology called the GigaAssay. Both have been licensed commercially.  

Qing Wu (Environmental and Occupational Health and Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) was awarded a new NIH R15 grant for $450,000 titled “Developing Model-based Bone Density Reference Values for African-American Women.” This grant earned a perfect score of 10.

The UNLV Bowling Club won the 2018 Tony Reyes Collegiate Classic Tournament  this past weekend, besting five other universities. This event was their final tune-up before they travel to Indianapolis this weekend to compete in the Hoosier Classic — the biggest collegiate bowling competition in the nation!  Go Rebels!    

Emily J. Salisbury (Criminal Justice) was awarded the 2018 GPSA Outstanding Mentor Award by the Graduate and Professional Student Association at UNLV.

Bo Bernhard, Brett Abarbanel, and Dan Sahl (all International Gaming Institute) recently returned from giving several presentations at the ICE Totally Gaming conference in London. Bernhard presented on responsible gambling and the future of the Japanese integrated resort, while Sahl presented on the design challenges of incorporating…

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) recently published a new book,  The Terminal Self: Everyday Life in Hypermodern Times. 

Sue Wainscott (Libraries) recently was elected president of the Advisory Board of the Southern Nevada Conservancy, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works with federal agencies to connect people with their public lands. Originally known as the Red Rock Canyon Interpretive Association (founded in 1988), the conservancy has staff and…

Erika G. Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed by the Las Vegas Review Journal for an article on the growing number of LGBT superheroes.

David Howard (Medicine and Community Health Sciences) in January had two papers published on outcomes following sling surgery for stress urinary incontinence among female military beneficiaries. This was the first study that looked at the issue of outcomes following surgical management of stress urinary incontinence among the very large population…