Saruna Ghimire and Karen Callahan (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article, "Nutritional Assessment of Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Rural Nepal," in the Public Library of Science with Binaya Kumar Baral from the Department of Biochemistry in the Nepal Medical College and Teaching…

The American Marketing Association  (the marketing industry's premier trade organization) selected UNLV's collegiate AMA student group as a finalist in its case competition. The student group has been invited to present their plan to executives from eBay in New Orleans at the 39th Annual American Marketing Association’s…

Eric Weber (Architecture) contributed a chapter to the new book, Designbuild Education, edited by Chad Kraus. Assistant professor Weber's chapter, entitled "From Scratch: How to Start a Designbuild Program" outlines the lessons learned from creating the David G. Howryla Design Build Studio at the UNLV School of Architecture.  …

Amanda Sokolowsky, Erika Marquez, Erin Sheehy, Casey Barber, and Shawn Gerstenberger (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently authored "Health Hazards in the Home: An Assessment of a Southern Nevada Community," which appeared in the February issue of Journal of Community Health. The study focused on health outcomes in…

Dieu-My Tran (Nursing) co-authored “Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among College Students: Knowledge, Perception, and Risk Assessment,” which concluded high knowledge level of cardiovascular risk factors was not sufficient to lower potential risks within the study population, but changing perception of those factors may play a bigger role in reducing…

Joseph Lombardo (National Supercomputing Institute) received a total of $301,625 from the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. Lombardo currently serves as the Core-PI on the National Institutes of Health’s Center of Biomedical Research Excellence award titled “Center for Neurodegeneration and Transcranial Neuroscience (CNTN)’s Data…

At the first ever Clexacon the weekend of March 3-5, a convention bringing "together a diverse group of LGBTQ fans and content creators from around the world," Erika Gisela Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender and Ethnic Studies), co-presented Who Will Read, Write or Buy our Happily Ever Afters"with UNLV Gender and Sexuality students Nicole…

Roberto C. Orozco (Student Engagement & Diversity) authored Fostering Nepantla Practice; Fomentando la Práctica de Nepantla which encourages student affairs professionals to engage in self-reflection, authenticity, and critically conscious work. The paper was published in the Spring 2017 Edition of the NASPA Gender and Sexuality…

Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) was quoted in "Escape Rooms Like The Basement Quickly Growing in Las Vegas Popularity" — a Las Vegas Review-Journal article. Among other scholarly contributions, Borer is the author of Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America’s Most Beloved Ballpark (NYU Press, 2008).