UNLV students enrolled in assistant professor Cheryl Abbate's (Philosophy) courses "Animals and Philosophy" (Honors) and "Animal Ethics" (PHIL 277) raised $1700 for the Poppy Foundation (a Las Vegas cat rescue) during the "Thrifting for Animals" event held December 5. The classes are especially grateful to the philosophy department for paying…

Dr. Neamat Hassan supervised third-year student McKay Tucker (both Dental Medicine) who earned one of five “Most Outstanding” clinical research awards during the 27th Annual Hinman Student Research Symposium for their project “Color Stability of Nano-Hybrid and Universal Composite Resin Restorations.” Tucker was one of the 101 presenting students…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole co-authored “Immunoglobulin gene expression profiles and microbiome characteristics in periodontitis in nonhuman primates,” which published August 2022 in the journal Molecular Biology.        

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental Medicine) co-authored “Medications Associated with Oral Lichenoid Lesions: A Single Site Retrospective Study,” which published as the cover story in the November 2022 issue of New York State Dental Journal.     

Dr. Robin Weltman (Dental Medicine) co-authored “Temperature Changes During Implant Osteotomy Preparations in Human Cadaver Tibiae Comparing MIS Straight Drills with Densah Burrs,” which published September 24 in the journal Genes. Weltman also co-authored “A Long-term Retrospective Analysis of Single Tooth Implants and Endodontic Therapies in a…

Three team members from Traffic Safety Research at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV were recognized last week at the School of Public Health's Delta Omega Honor Society Induction Ceremony. Laura Gryder was inducted as an honorary member. Kavita Batra and Bertille Mavegam Tango Assoumou were elected to serve as Delta Theta chapter…

Katherine Walker (English) published a chapter titled, "The Instinct of the Cook," in the edited collection In the Kitchen: 1500-1800 (Amsterdam University Press). 

Kristina Mihajlovski, Mark Buttner, Patricia Cruz, Brian Labus, Elizabeth Detrick (all Environmental and Occupational Health), and Barbara St. Pierre Schneider (University of Texas at Arlington) co-authored the article "SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance with Environmental Surface Sampling in Public Areas" in the journal PLoS ONE. The objective of this…

John Curry (History) organized and presented in a roundtable aimed at publicizing and discussing the progress made on a translation project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities at the Middle East Studies Association annual meeting in Denver, CO, on December 4. The project aims to publish an annotated translation of the …