Members of UNLV's chapter of the Nevada Faculty Alliance (NFA) recently elected a new executive board. Sue Wainscott (University Libraries), Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy), and John Curry (History) will serve as president, vice president, and treasurer, respectively. NFA is the independent association of faculty in Nevada since 1983…

Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) collaborated with colleagues from UNLV and other universities to author a book chapter entitled the title "The Intersections of Gender and Caste, Cumulative Dis/Advantage and Later-Life Health in Nepal" for the Routledge publication "Population Aging in Societal Context." This chapter uses Nepal as a model to…

Chandra Bhattacharya (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has been awarded a $1.88M Early Stage Investigator (ESI) R35 MIRA grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). This prestigious five-year award will support the Bhattacharya lab's research on developing innovative lipid nanoparticle platforms for targeted mRNA delivery -…

Hal Berghel (Computer Science) published an article, "An Overview of Generative AI Acceptable Use Policies by Universities With Top 25 Computer Science Programs," in the current issue of IEEE Computer.  Berghel contrasts the institutional acceptable use policies of leading universities regarding the use of Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) in…

Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) published "Contextually and Culturally Relevant Affective Pedagogical Goals: A Response to Herrick, Lawson, and Matewos" in Science Education.

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, "Understanding and predicting flossing behavior in a rural Appalachian community using the multi-theory model," In the journal Scientific Reports (Impact factor 3.9) in collaboration with coauthors from the New Orleans School of Medicine; the…

Ph.D. student Keegan Hammond (Life Sciences), a student researcher in the Dryland Ecohydrology lab, was selected for the Natural Resources Workforce Development fellowship as part of the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. Hammond will join a cohort of seven graduate students to gain experience in developing actionable, use-inspired…

Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) along with her co-author at the University of Delaware published an article, "Subsidy Density in Early Education Centers: Comparing Center and Community Associations Across Two Nationwide Samples," in Early Childhood Research Quarterly. Using two national datasets from 2012 and…

Medical student Christina Dantam (Medicine) and assistant professor Dr. Rooman Ahad (Pediatric Neurology), in collaboration with the Grant a Gift Autism Foundation – Ackerman Center and the UNLV Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, recently published a case study titled, "Case report of paroxysmal dystonia in a child with KBG syndrome: Expansion of…