Andrew Nicholson (English), Jarret Keene (English), and Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellow Monica Macansantos served as judges for the 2025 Vegas PBS KIDS Writers Contest Presented by Janice Allen. The contest empowers children in grades K-5 to celebrate creativity and build literacy skills by writing and illustrating their very own stories.

Michael Dagovetz, Kaloyan Momchilov, Liahm Blank, Joshua Khorsandi, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine), in collaboration with eminent international researchers from Italy, Morocco, Spain, and Ecuador, recently published a study titled, "Global COVID-19 Vaccination Challenges: Inequity of Access and Vaccine Hesitancy," in the Journal of Medicine,…

Anna Prendergast, Melissa Conner, Kavita Batra, Perez Oppong, Satinder Garcha, Rebecca Bryant, Gavin Gloor, and Jeremy Kilburn (all Medicine) were awarded the Outstanding Lightning Talk for their study, "The QuEST to Measure Nurse Clinical Exposure for Prolonged Field Care," at the prestigious Tri-Service Nursing Research Program (TSNRP)…

The UNLV Jazz Ensemble I received Graduate College Large Jazz Ensemble Outstanding Performance in the 2025 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards. In addition, one of our students in the UNLV Joe Williams Jazz Scholarship Quartet, bassist Ed Lacala, received a Graduate College Outstanding Soloist Award. This competition is considered among the…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), an interdisciplinary researcher who actively engages in international collaborations, recently co-authored a study with her research partners from Morocco, Italy, Iran, and Poland titled, "Assessing Visual Perception and Working Memory Using a Digital Pen in Moroccan Students with Learning Difficulties," published in the…

Brittani Sterling (Libraries) has been named a 2025 Library Journal Mover & Shaker, one of 50 library professionals across the U.S. recognized for innovation and leadership in the field. Sterling was honored in the Educators category for her work to develop inclusive programming that broadened the reach of library services to more UNLV…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) was recently honored with the Distinguished Contribution Award by the Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA) during the GPSA Research Forum held on May 2, 2025. This recognition follows her receipt of the Outstanding Mentor Award from the GPSA in 2023, underscoring her sustained commitment to graduate and…

Qurrat-ul-Ain Aziz, Kavita Batra, Sanna Fatima, Jared Splinter, Amber Laurel Champion, Ajay M. Kumar, and Kenneth E. Izuora (all Medicine) recently published a study titled, “Clinical Accuracy of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Immediately After Kidney Transplant in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes,” in Endocrine Practice. A key strength of this…

An-Pyng Sun (Social Work), together with Ariann Chelli (Desert Hope Treatment Center in Las Vegas) and Maureen Strohm (HCA Sunrise Health GME Consortium at Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas) wrote an article, "Connecting Hospitalized Patients with Substance Use Disorder to Community Continuing Coordinated Care: The Critical Role of Hospital…