Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) has been selected as an inaugural Philosophy in the Media Fellow with the Marc Sanders Foundation, through which she will focus on long-form magazine article writing.  The MSF Philosophy in Media initiative aims to increase the presence of philosophy in print, audio, and video media by training philosophers to…

Jason Park (Mathematical Sciences) published "Random measure algebras" in the AMS Contemporary Mathematics, Stochastic Processes and Functional Analysis: New Perspectives.   In this article, algebras of random measures are introduced.  Three random measure algebras are created by using three different methods 1) a…

Melissa Marshall, Selam Ayele, Casey Barber, Erin Sheehy, Daidre Gamboa, and Shawn Gerstenberger (all Public Health) published an article on "The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development BUILD Las Vegas 2019 Event: Lessons learned in public health community engagement" in the Journal of Community Health. The article offers lessons learned…

Jason Flatt (Social & Behavioral Health) is the principal investigator on a project entitled "Engaging the LGBTQIA+ community living with Parkinson's Disease, caregivers and care providers in research," a collaboration between UNLV and Cleveland Clinic - Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. The proposal was selected for funding for $400,000…

Sonal Shah (Dental) gave two presentations during the American Dental Association’s annual national meeting in October. The first was titled "Oral Pathology: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and the second, which was given on behalf of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, was titled "Specialty Spotlight: The Spectrum of…

Dr. Tina Brandon Abbatangelo (Dental) accepted an invitation by the American Dental Association to speak at its annual meeting during the first SmileCon event. Modeled after the popular TED Talks, SmileCon featured three speakers who shared insight from their lives and careers. Brandon Abbatangelo, after completing a preparation course led by…

Jose Melendrez, Christopher Johansen, Manoj Sharma, and Amanda Haboush-Deloye (all Public Health) presented on "Examples of Community Based Participatory Research in Action" at the Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Institute.  The CBPR Institute was sponsored by the UNLV School of Public Health, Nevada Minority…

Kimberly A. Barchard (Psychology) and Edwin Oh (Medicine) are the recipients of the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) 2021 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in arts and health and natural sciences, respectively.   Each year during the Office of Undergraduate Research Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium, OUR recognizes and honors UNLV…

Vanessa Booth (Political Science) and Aaron Cheng (Life Sciences and Psychology), both undergraduate researchers, are the recipients of the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) 2021 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award in the arts and health and natural sciences, respectively. Each year during the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR…