Jeff Stempel (Law) presented the "Principles of Reinsurance Law" model code at the AIDA US 2026 Insurance Law Forum, hosted by Duke University.

Dr Brandon Karcher (Medicine) and his co-authors in the Department of Surgery published a challenge in trauma and acute care surgery case report titled, "Management of devastating mesenteric trauma leading to short gut syndrome," in Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open.

Marketa Trimble (Law) participated in the "In Conversation: The Perils & Possibilities of Generative AI" panel at the 2026 Nevada Women's Film Festival.

Latisha Nixon-Jones (Law) was honored as a Community Leader at Dean Lamar Allen Elementary School.

Professor Michael Kagan and Alissa Cooley Yonesawa (both Law) of the UNLV Immigration Clinic recently published an essay in the University of Cincinnati Law Review titled "Civil Rights Microviolations." Drawing on their clinical experience, the authors define and analyze this new conceptual framework for understanding immigration law. 

Marketa Trimble (Law) recently traveled to Prague to guest lecture at Charles University. She joined Dr. Petra Žikovská’s class at the Faculty of Law to lead a discussion on Current Issues in U.S. Copyright Law.

Gary Totten (Faculty Affairs) has published an article, “McTeague and the Afterlives of Empire,” in the journal Arizona Quarterly. Totten discusses Frank Norris’s novel 1899 McTeague and its Mexican American character Maria Macapa in the contexts of the 1846-48 Mexican-American War and the Californio testimonios gathered afterward as part of…

Ph.D. student Hiraku Nagahori (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences), under the mentorship of Kai Yu Ho, Ph.D., (Physical Therapy) and in collaboration with James Kenyon (Teaching and Learning), is advancing innovative rehabilitation strategies for individuals with chronic low back pain. In their recent study, the team investigated how a simple, low…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual oral paper titled, “The genesis of Perfection Quotient (PQ) in health promotion research,” at the 4th International Congress on Behavioral & Social Science Research (ICBSSR 2026) held in Rome, Italy. Perfection Quotient is a novel behavioral model developed by…