Professor Joan Howarth (Law) gave the keynote presentation, Radical Reinvention of Law School, at the University of Detroit Mercy Law Review Symposium with Claudia Angelos, Mary Lu Bilek and Deborah Merritt. 

Professor Joan Howarth (Law) was appointed to the Bar Admissions Working Group for the Committee of Legal Education and Admissions Reform (CLEAR) at the Conference of Chief Justices/Conference of State Court Administrators. 

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) presented a paper, "The Ballistics of Inquiry in a Post-Truth Age," at the annual meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society in Salt Lake City. The paper was recognized as a finalist for the Joint PES & Educational Theory Outstanding Paper Award, and will soon be published in the society's journal, Philosophy of…

Sara Hunt (Medicine), Ph.D., associate professor and assistant dean of behavioral health sciences at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and executive director of BeHERE NV, received an honorable mention for Faculty/Staff Outreach for the UNLV 2024 Community Engagement Awards. Hunt has been instrumental in launching BeHERE NV, which is…

James W. Navalta, Graham R. McGinnis, and a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences program Elias M. Malek (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) published a paper titled, "Exercise in a natural environment increases program compliance in people with chronic migraine: A pilot cross-over randomized trial," in the Journal of…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Katharine Major (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) gave several oral presentations during the American Mosquito Control Association 90th Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas from March 4-8: "Development of environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling for arbovirus vector surveillance in southern Nevada…

Eric Kawana, Kenny Do, Jenifer Do (all Medicine) and Vladislav P. Zhitny, alum, published "The Origins and Development of Pre-emptive Dermatologic Anesthesia: A Systematic Review" in Cureus.  The study delves into the historical trajectory of dermatological anesthesia, tracing its roots from ancient civilizations to modern times. It…

Professor Michael Kagan's (Law) latest article, "A Faster Way to Yes," will be published in the Georgetown Law Journal. The article proposes ways to streamline asylum adjudication without structurally biasing the asylum system toward rejection of asylum applications.

Professor Patience Crowder (Law) was part of a panel discussion, "Brown v. Board of Education: 70 Years Later - Lessons Learned" at the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse.