Janelle Yasukochi (Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education) and Maria Aladjova (Health Sciences) served as the conference co-chairs, representing Region 9, at the NACADA Region 8, 9, & 10 Conference: Illuminating the Path of Possibilities, recently held in Las Vegas from Feb. 27-March 1. NACADA is the professional association for Academic…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented during the American Mosquito Control Association 89th Annual Meeting from Feb. 27-Mar. 3 in Reno, Nevada. She gave three oral presentations and one poster presentation on the following topics: "Investigating molecular mechanisms of insecticide resistance in the Eastern…

Dr. Peter Kim and Dr. Jo-Lawrence Bigcas (Otolaryngology, Medicine) were invited to speak at the 4th Annual Sin City Sinus conference, hosted by renowned rhinologist Dr. Phil Chen. As UNLV faculty, Dr. Kim and Dr. Bigcas represented the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV with presentations on the Management of Epistaxis and…

Colleen Hall-Patton (Sociology) recently published the article, "My 'Christopher Columbus' Eleanor Beard quilt," which looks at a 1930s quilt by a quilt entrepreneurial company inspired by a 1600s quilt, in Blanket Statements, the quarterly newsletter of the American Quilt Study Group. 

Hikmet Loe's (Art) recent article, "Viewing the Colorado River: Between Art and Actuality," was published by Southwest Contemporary in their issue "Finding Water in the West" (vol. 7, 2023).

Todd L. Jennings, Yen-Ling Chen, Bailey M. Way, and Shane Kraus (all Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Associations between online dating platform use and mental and sexual health among a mixed sexuality college student sample," in Computer in Human Behavior. 

Yuna Kim, Muhammed Shand, Emily Sagalow, Logan Lee, Kavita Batra, Jo-Lawrence Bigcas, and Robert Wang (all Medicine) presented their study titled "Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) in the Management of Thyroidectomy Incisions" at the Triological Combined Sections Meeting in Coronado.   

Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article titled, "911 Swatting, VoIP, and Doxxing," in the current (March 2023) issue of IEEE Computer. The article explains how VoIP has exacerbated the problems in preventing and prosecuting 911 Swatting and Doxxing.

Candace Burton (Nursing) was published in the Journal of Forensic Nursing. The article was first-authored by Burton's Ph.D student (now candidate) using her existing data, and will be included in a special issue of the Journal of Forensic Nursing on Health Disparity and Health Equity in Forensic Nursing. Gepshtein, Y. &…