Jerome "JT" Davis (Facilities Management) was named the first-ever employee of the month for the landscape, grounds, and arboretum department.

Dr. James Mah (Dental) co-authored “An in vitro evaluation of orthodontic aligner biomechanics around the maxillary arch,” which appears in the September issue of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.

  Brittani Sterling (Libraries) presented at the 11th Annual National African American Librarians Conference hosted by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. First, the panel, "Identity Politics: The Weightiness of Black Womanhood in LIS" used the lens of Kimberle Crenshaw's 1989 definition of the term…

Ryan Wirt, Lauren Crew Andrew Ortiz, and Emmanuel Flores (all Neuroscience), Jefferson Kinney (Brain Health), and James Hyman (Psychology) published an article in Communications Biology entitled "Altered theta rhythm and hippocampal-cortical interactions underlie working memory deficits in a hyperglycemia risk factor model of Alzheimer’s…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) presented two of her research projects, "Exposure to a mixture of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) during pregnancy and maternal cardiometabolic health: the HOME Study" and "Associations of neonicotinoids with insulin and glucose homeostasis parameters in US adults: NHANES 2015-2016" at the…

Nadia Eldemerdash (Political Science), a doctoral student, was awarded the American Political Science Association's Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Mingon Kang (Computer Science), Ji Yoo (Medicine), Brendan Morris (Electronic and Computer Engineering), Zhaohuam Zhu (Physics and Astronomy), Qiang Zhu (Physics and Astronomy), Mira Han (Life Sciences), Kazem Taghva (Computer Science), and Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) were awarded National Science…

Brenna Renn (Psychology) published "Behavior change factors and retention in dietary interventions for older adults: Scoping review" in The Gerontologist. This work, done in conjunction with colleagues and students at the University of Washington School of Nursing, mapped behavior change theories, agents, and techniques in dietary…

Fawn Douglas (Art) was featured on KNPR's Native Nevada Chapter 6: The Artivists. Douglas is an MFA candidate.