Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published an article, "Transcendence as Hyperbole in "La Fuerza de la Sangre" in Cervantes. The article looks at author Miguel de Cervantes' exaggerated use of symbolism in the named short story as a rhetorical ploy to signal a message of worldly, rather than sublime, transcendence…

Jeffrey Montes, Nathaniel Bodell, Robert Salatto, Andrew Craig-Jones, Cordero Roche, Boram Lim, Alina Swafford, Gabriela Guzman, and Melissa Aure (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) presented at the Southwest American College of Sports Medicine in Costa Mesa, California, last month. All are graduate students. James Navalta is the faculty…

Robert Futrell (Sociology) was featured in a Las Vegas Review Journal article about the recent rise of hate speech: "Hate Speech Can Be Difficult to Track, Las Vegas Experts Say." Futrell has written extensively on U.S. right-wing extremism. 

Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine-Surgery) was honored by Las Vegas Heals Thursday night for Inspired Excellence in Healthcare. Kuhls not only works long hours treating trauma victims at UMC, she is also a tireless researcher and advocate for injury prevention. Fellow UMC trauma surgeon and UNLV professor Dr. John Fildes spoke about her commitment and…

Charlotta Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) and her husband, Mark Callis Sanders, are co-authors of a conference paper, “Low Doese Radiation: The Million Worker Study — Findings, Implications, Challenges and You," which will be presented during the International Nuclear Law Association XXIII Nuclear Inter Jura Congress in Abu Dhabi, United…

Rachell Ekroos (Nursing) and colleague Lauren Traveller (Southern Utah University) presented preliminary data from the Forensic Nursing Representation in Online News Reports research project at the International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice. Through descriptive statistics and quantitative text analysis, the purpose of the…

Karl Kingsley and Joseph Cinelli (both Dental) published the manuscript "Assessment of Dental Pulp Stem Cell (DPSC) Biomarkers Following Induction with Bone Morphogenic Protein 2 (BMP-2)" in the Journal of Advances in Biology and Biotechnology with Erica Nguyen (UNLV undergraduate student).

Sutirtha Chatterjee (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) recently received the Best Reviewer Award of the year from the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS). JAIS is one of the top journals in information systems/management information systems discipline and is the flagship journal of the Association for…

David Damore (Political Science) recently published "Race for the Senate 2018: Key Issue in Nevada" on the Brookings Institution's FixGov Blog. The piece provides an overview of the 2018 U.S. Senate campaign in Nevada between incumbent Republican Dean Heller and Democratic challenger Jacky Rosen.