Pejmon Sadri (Mathematical Sciences) recently published a paper titled, "Lessons From Gathering of Crop Production Statistics in India: A Comparison of Methods Used Before and After the Bengal Famine of 1943 – 1944," in the Journal of Applied Statistics and Machine Learning.

Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article titled, "Neighborhood socioeconomic status and mortality in the nurses' health study (NHS) and the nurses' health study II (NHSII)," in the journal Environmental Epidemiology.  Neighborhood effects are increasingly recognized as important contributors to health disparities,…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole and Dr. James Mah (both Dental Medicine) have been listed on Stanford University’s annual report of the top-cited researchers from across the globe based on the work completed during a single year, and throughout the person’s career. The most recent list published October 10, 2022, in PLOS Biology. The publicly available…

The Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies is excited to announce that UNLV's radio station, KUNV (91.5 Jazz)/Las Vegas, won a national award: The 2022 Beats Magazine Smooth Jazz Station Of The Year. The award recognized: Jason Beatty, operations manager Kim Linzy, music director An excerpt from the article announcing the station…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published with his colleague, "Alzheimer’s Disease Services, Staffing, and Outcomes in Adult Day Health Centers," in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.

Reina Ferrufino (Education) will be presenting her work titled, "U.S. Central American Students: Hidden Voices of the Latinx Communities," at the Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institution Educators' (AHSIE) 15th Annual Best Practices Conference: La Quinceañera: Celebrando Crecimiento, Past, Present, and Future.  

Buddha Dawn (Medicine) delivered an invited seminar for master's students at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. His lecture titled, “Heart failure: Pathophysiology and cellular therapy,” discussed the molecular and neurohormonal underpinnings of guideline-directed heart failure management, and also…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's ombuds office. The post, based on his preparations for a spring Honors seminar on jazz history, contrasts two styles of leadership — that of Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington — and ponders the implications for higher education. It is…

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was invited to present at the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society in Boston, Massachusetts. He discussed findings from a study on community college student outcomes in statistics and math after developmental education reform efforts. The…