UNLV faculty, staff, and graduate students participated in Corporate Challenge Track & Field on March 11, 2023. The small team of 10 earned 21 medals (7 gold, 10 silver, 4 bronze). Also, they earned 6th place overall and 1 point toward the cumulative Corporate Challenge ranking. Congratulations to the team and well done representing UNLV! Don…

John Menezes, Kavita Batra, Vladislav Zhitny (all Medicine) published a study, "A Nationwide Analysis of Gunshot Wounds of the Head and Neck: Morbidity, Mortality, and Cost" in the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. Gun-related injuries remain a major public health issue, with many beginning to view this as a national health crisis.

An interdisciplinary collaboration between the dental and medical school resulted in a publication titled, "Extranodal manifestation of mantle cell lymphoma in the submandibular duct: A case report and review of literature." The publication was accepted in Otolaryngology Case Reports. It was written by fourth-year medical student Spencer…

CEOWORLD Magazine has named the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality No. 1 in the world in their "Best Hospitality And Hotel Management Schools In The World For 2023" ranking.  

Assistant professor/assistant director Adam Schroeder (Jazz, Music) was just selected the recipient of the Nevada Regent’s Award for Creative Activities. The award is presented to two permanent full-time NSHE faculty members with distinguished records in creative activity. Recipients are nominated for this honor, which carries a $5,000…

Addie Rolnick (Law) was appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's Committee on Law and Justice (CLAJ). Professor Rolnick also serves as the faculty director of the Indian Nations Gaming & Governance Program, as well as the associate director of the Program on Race, Gender & Policing. “We are…

Marc J. Kahn (Medicine), MD, MBA, and Paul J. Hauptman, MD, the deans at each of Nevada's public medical schools wrote an editorial in the Nevada Independent pointing out the the solution to the state's physician shortage is to increase the number of residency and fellowship positions. While the likelihood that a medical graduate from a…

Professor Marketa Trimble (Law) published in the American Bar Association's Supreme Court Preview an article on the forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court oral argument and expected subsequent opinion of the Court in the case of Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc.

Dean Angela Amar (Nursing) has been elected as the secretary-treasurer for the Western Institute of Nursing. She will be inducted during the Membership Assembly on Friday, April 21.