Alexandra Nur (Criminal Justice) and her colleagues Holly Nguyen and Brandy Parker from the Department of Sociology & Criminology at Pennsylvania State University recently published an article in Social Science Research  titled, "Criminal legal contact, labor market insecurity and labor market participation." In this article, the authors…

The Cannabis Policy Institute and William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, including Director Riana Durrett (UNLV Cannabis Policy Institute), were proud to welcome national cannabis law figure, Robert Mikos to the school as a visiting scholar on February 9. Mikos, whose research interests include federalism, constitutional law, drug law and policy…

Kati McNamara (Social Work) and Susie Skarl (Libraries) co-authored an article titled "Transgender service in the U.S. military: A scoping review" in the International Journal of Transgender Health. The review mapped and synthesized research findings from 58 articles on transgender service, including demographics, gender-affirming healthcare…

Stewart Chang's (Law) article, A Right to be Born?: What Dobbs Could Mean for Artificial Reproductive Technologies, was published in the University of Baltimore Law Review. 

Yan Zhou (Physics and Astronomy) received a five-year Early Career Award from the Department of Energy in the amount of $875,000. By integrating techniques from trapped-ion quantum information processing with the exceptional sensitivity of molecules, Zhou’s team will develop a tabletop experiment capable of probing combined Charge and Parity (CP)…

Baylor Akhavan and Wolfram Samlowski (both Medicine) have recently published a study titled, "A combination of low TMB and PD-L1 expression predict poor progression-free survival of metastatic melanoma patients treated with first-line ipilimumab plus nivolumab," in Frontiers in Immunology. The study showed that tumor mutational burden (…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) has again been named among the Top Scholars by ScholarGPS, which recognizes researchers for outstanding performance across disciplines and specialties. Based on his extensive publication record, global impact, and the exceptional quality of his scholarly contributions, ScholarGPS placed Ebersole among the top 0.5% of…

Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) was inducted into the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health through the UNLV Delta Omega Delta Theta Chapter. This distinction reflects Demopoulos’ dedication to increasing the quality of the field, as well as to the protection and advancement of the health of all people, and acknowledges her exceptional…

Francine Lipman (Law) was a panelist for a presentation entitled, "What Practitioners Need to Know: Immigrants and Tax Filing," hosted by NILC, UnidosUS, Protecting Immigrant Families, and United Ways of California.