Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute; Hospitality) moderated a panel titled, "Game Integrity in Esports," at the International Association of Gaming Advisors annual Summit in Berlin, Germany. Joined by four experts from DACH countries, Abarbanel discussed the ways esports integrity is similar to sports integrity, and how its digital…
Christopher D. E. Willoughby (African American Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies) published the article "John Collins Warren—Journal Founder, Institution Builder, and Racial Theorist" in the June 12 issues of the New England Journal of Medicine. Written in collaboration with scholars from Harvard Medical…
Matthew Schurr and Brenna Renn (Psychology) published "Relation Between Executive Function Test Performance and Treatment Outcomes During Brief Psychotherapies for Later-Life Depression" in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry: Open Science, Education, and Practice. Schurr, an alumni of the UNLV Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program and Renn's…
Ph.D. candidate Josie Libero-Cruzado and Ph.D. student Becca Manns, along with faculty advisors Frederic Poineau and Dan Koury (all Chemistry and Biochemistry), recently published an article in the Journal of Alloys and Compounds. Their research, "Diffusion and phase formation in the γ-uranium-technetium system," expands on known uranium-…
Neda Akhavan (Kinesiology and Nutritional Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published "Effect of green tea supplementation on blood pressure in adults: a GRADE-assessed systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials" in the journal Blood Pressure. 
Casey Barber, Lung-Chang Chien, Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Edwin Oh (School of Medicine and the College of Sciences), Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health), and colleagues published an article on "Application of joinpoint regression to SARS-CoV-2 wastewater-based epidemiology in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA" in…
John Gallob (Dental) presented a one hour Continuing Education course on the Colgate Oral Health Network titled, "Active Prevention, Advancing Oral Health Protection." The course incorporated new technologies in fluoride and discussed the importance of teamwork and promoting oral health in combination with dental hygienists, stressing the…
Ruben J. Garcia (Law) was quoted in a Bloomberg Law story about a case pending before the United States Supreme Court involving a private contractor sued for labor violations in an immigrant detention facility. 
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