Tedd Girouard (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) competed in the Las Vegas Corporate Challenge Bike Race on April 19, 2023, for the UNLV Bike Team where came in first in his age group as well as overall with an incredible time of 29 minutes for 13.2 miles. The UNLV Bike Team placed 3rd overall in their division. 

The UNLV Down Syndrome program is happy to announce the publication of this original research article titled, “Care coordination for adults with Down syndrome or intellectual and developmental disabilities: a scoping review.” In this paper, the authors report on currently existing care coordination efforts for adults with Down syndrome or…

Nicholas Irwin (Economics) was recently interviewed by the Las Vegas Review-Journal about Workbnb, a Las Vegas startup and short-term rental company.

Dan Lee (Political Science) was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Participatory Democracy by Nevada Secretary of State Francisco V. Aguilar. The Advisory Committee is "charged with assisting the Secretary of State in identifying and proposing programs that support participatory democracy and solutions to any problem concerning the level of…

Noria Litaker (History) was awarded a Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Award by the Newberry Library for her forthcoming book, Bedazzled Saints: Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria (University of Virginia Press, fall 2023). The award supports the publication of outstanding works of scholarship that concern European civilization before 1700…

On Monday, April 17 2023 at the Nevada legislature, assistant professor LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Policy and Leadership) was invited to present and testify before the education senate committee. A.B. 43 Revises provisions relating to school emergency operations plans. (BDR 34-238) Improving Access to Dual Language Education and…

Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) has received a subaward grant from the project titled, "Suicide Death Among Older Adults Receiving Residential Long-Term Care," sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. The purpose of this study is to evaluate systematically the risk for suicide mortality among nursing home and assisted…

Jesse Barnes, M.S. (Public Affairs) presented the first study from his dissertation work at the 80th annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) hybrid conference in Chicago titled, "Contested Federalism and Local Drinking Water Administration: The Effect of a Federal Rollback in Clean Water Act Enforcement.” Barnes is a Ph.D. candidate…

Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) published her first book Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times with New York University Press.