Monica R. Brown, Heather B. Van Ness (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), and Robbie Marsh (Mercer) presented a paper titled, “Project PRAISER: Exploring the perceived value of an interdisciplinary personnel preparation program to support students with EBD,” at the Teacher Educators for Children with Behavioral…

Emily C. Strickler (Medicine, '22 Public Health alumna) was nominated by the UNLV School of Public Health's Delta Theta chapter of the Delta Omega Honor Society to present her thesis research at the 2022 Delta Omega poster session at the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting. Strickler was one of 29 students invited to present…

Traffic safety research student researchers, Merika Charupoom (Undergraduate) and Carmen Hollifield (Medicine), presented research from the Traffic Safety Research team at the 150th American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting. Charupoom shared the geospatial map created to raise awareness for pedestrian fatalities in Southern Nevada…

The UNLV Jazz Studies program received its 14th consecutive outstanding review from the respected international magazine, Jazz Times, for its CD, Almost There, on Vegas Records. About Almost There UNLV’s 2022 jazz recording spotlights the program’s abundance of musical riches. Disc one features the Division of Jazz and Commercial Music’s…

Samantha O’Connell, Jessica Nave-Blodgett, Grace Wilson, Erin Hannon, and Joel Snyder (all Psychology) published a paper titled, "Elements of musical and dance sophistication predict musical groove perception," in Frontiers in Psychology. O’Connell and Nave-Blodgett are experimental psychology Ph.D. recipients from UNLV and Wilson is a current…

The UNLV department of philosophy recently hosted the 84th annual meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society. This event, which brought over 50 philosophers onto the UNLV campus, was also supported by the College of Liberal Arts. C. E. Abbate, K. Ladstaetter, and J. Woodbridge presented commentaries, while D. Beisecker (all Philosophy)…

Kavita Batra, Dale M. Netski, June Coleman, Mark Guadagnoli, Marc J. Kahn, and Deborah A. Kuhls (all Medicine) presented a poster, "Quality Improvement Initiative to Advance Faculty Research and Scholarship at a New Medical School," at the annual conference held by the Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS), Association of American…

David. Damore (The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West, Political Science) published an analysis titled, "Blue metros, red state politics in the 2022 Nevada midterm elections," on the Brookings Institution's FixGox blog examining state and regional voting patterns in the recently completed 2022 midterm elections. The analysis finds that…

Hyunhwa "Henna" Lee (Nursing) presented a paper at the 2022 International Society of Nurses in Genetics (ISONG) World Congress on Nov. 12, 2022. Her paper is titled, "Cognitive-Psychological Functioning and Saliva MicroRNA Expression after Home-based Dual-Task Exercise in Asians and Pacific Islanders with History of Mild Traumatic Brain…