Alumnus and CFA Hall of Fame inductee Ron Husband (Art '73) was recognized this week by the California State Legislature as one of California's Unsung Heroes for positive impact in his community. Among other accolades, Husband was recognized for extraordinary contributions to the advancement of equal rights for all individuals and…

Zachary Walusek (Business, UNLV Model United Nations) was awarded Best Delegate, earning UNLV Model United Nations’ first Gavel in club history at the UCBMUN 27th annual conference. He participated alongside six other UNLV students at the University of California Berkeley Model United Nations Competition on March 2-5, 2023, in over 15 hours…

Monica R. Brown, Pricella Morris (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), M. Matute-Chavarra (NMSU), and E. House (NMSU) recently published a book chapter titled, "You Must Learn”: Remixing the Rhythm in the Classroom," in W. Hunter, J. Taylor, & L. Scott (Eds.), The Mixtape Volume 1: Culturally Sustaining…

Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed by journalist Rachel Moore of KTNV Channel 13 in Las Vegas about the history and value of Black Studies programs in American higher education, and how the African American and African Diaspora Studies Program at UNLV is…

Kasra Ghaharian (International Gaming Institute) published "Players Gonna Pay: Characterizing gamblers and gambling-related harm with payments transaction data" in Computers in Human Behavior with co-authors Brett Abarbanel, Shane W Kraus, Ashok Singh, and Bo Bernhard. The study is the first to leverage gamblers' payments…

Members of the Holmes Scholars Program, Adjoa Mensah (Teaching and Learning) and Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership and Higher Education) were presenters at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) 2023 conference. They presented "Teacher Education Enrichment: What are universities doing to enhance…

Linh Nguyen and Class of 2022 alumnae Cynthia Le and Vivien Lee co-authored “Game-based learning in dental education,” which published online in the Journal of Dental Education. The four-year study compared game-based learning attitudes among students within different stages of their Doctor of Dental Medicine program. The results indicated that…

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental Medicine) co-authored “Extranodal manifestation of mantle cell lymphoma in the submandibular duct: A case report and review of literature,” which published in the March issue of Otolaryngology Case Reports.

The #EEGManyLabs project team, including Joel Snyder (Psychology), is being recognized with the Credibility in Neuroscience Team Award from the British Neuroscience Association. From the award announcement: "This project is led by Drs. Faisal Mushtaq and Yuri Pavlov, who are leading a collaborative international effort focused on improving…