Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) received funding from the World Health Organization to develop a case study of the multisectoral actions of the Brazilian National Strategy to Prevent and Care for Childhood Obesity (PROTEJA). This case study will be part of the WHO Collection of Case Studies on Experiences of Multisectoral…

Jared Oestman (Political Science) published "Burden sharing in UN peacekeeping operations: Who deploys to violent locations?" in International Interactions. The article identifies which countries voluntarily deploy their service members to the most violent  locations within United Nations peacekeeping operations. The research…

Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) represented UNLV at Campus Compact’s Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN) meeting at the University of Minnesota. This is the first time UNLV has been involved with TRUCEN — a network of community engagement professionals from R1 universities across the country — after…

Via an interdisciplinary collaboration between UNLV's International Gaming Institute, department of computer science, department of psychology, and William F. Harrah College of Hospitality, Kasra Ghaharian published "Payments transaction data from online casino players and online sports bettors" in Data in Brief with co-authors…

John Tuman (Political Science) presented an invited paper titled, "The Electric Vehicle Transition in North America: A U.S. Perspective," in the seminar: La IAM: Entre la trampa y del ingreso medio, el T-MEC, la electromovilidad, y el nearshoring: Cuál future? [The Mexican Auto Industry: Between the Middle Income Trap, the USMCA Agreement,…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's ombuds office. The post, "Formal? Informal? What's the Difference, Anyway?," examined the differences between formal and informal conflict resolution processes. For more information about the ombuds office, please visit its website.…

Katherine Howard and Karl Kingsley (both Dental) with Keegan Lott, Paris Collier, and Marc Ringor (all Medicine) recently published the study, "Administration of Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) and Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor (bFGF) to Induce Neural Differentiation of Dental Pulp Stem Cells (DPSC) Isolates," in the journal Biomedicines.

Analiesa Delgado (History) received an honorable mention from the 2023 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Program.

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) recently held their 241st AAS meeting in Seattle, Washington. During the meeting students from across the nation participated in the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Poster Competition where students present their posters and are judged by volunteer judges.  Margaret Johnston (Physics and…