William M. Ramsey (Philosophy) recently published "What Eliminative Materialism Isn't" in Synthese.

Anthony Waddle (M.S. Biology 2017, now at the University of Melbourne), and Rebeca Rivera and Jef Jaeger (both Biology), along with a group of former UNLV undergraduate students (Emma Keenan, Ghazal Rezaei, Joshua Levy, Yesenia Vasquez, Marlai Sai, Jessica Hill, Alexandra Zmuda, all Biology; and Hannah Rice, Kinesiology) and an Australian…

Norma A. Marrun (Teaching and Learning), Marcela Rodríguez-Campo (Nevada State College), Tara J. Plachowski (Teaching and Learning), and Christine Clark (Teaching and Learning) coauthored an article, Divergent Values: A Family Critical Race Theory Analysis of Families of Color and Their Perceptions of Teachers and Teaching as a…

Won-Yong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) and Jinsuh Tark, who is in MBA/MS Hotel Administration dual program, published a business case study "Green Car Inc.: Strategic Direction in the Car-Sharing Service Industry" with Ivey Publishing. Ivey Publishing is a leading business case study publisher with a global perspective. The…

Zakai Olsen (Mechanical Engineering) just had the paper titled "A hyperelastic porous media framework for ionic polymer-metal composite actuators and sensors: thermodynamically consistent formulation and nondimensionalization of the field equations" published in Smart Material and Structures journal.  Olsen just completed his PhD…

Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) coauthored an in-depth review paper titled: "Hawai‘i Forest Review: Synthesizing the Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of a Model System" in Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics.  The findings of this synthesis challenge some long-standing ideas about evolution and ecology in the…

Renato "Rainier" M. Liboro (Psychology) presented on the two ongoing research projects of his Community Health Advocacy for Minority Populations, Immigrants, and Other Newcomers, and their Mental Health (CHAMPION Mental Health) research lab. His talks were titled "Awareness and Knowledge on Aging and HIV-Associated Neurocognitive…

Andrea "Andi" Dassopoulos (International Gaming Institute) has been awarded $355,000 in fiscal year funding to continue her work with the Nevada Problem Gambling Project and responsible gambling awareness. 

Six faculty physicians at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV were named Top Doctors in the August 2021 issue of VEGAS INC's Health Care Quarterly magazine. Singled out for providing excellent care by the publication were: Dr. John Brosious, Plastic Surgery; Dr. David Di John, Infectious Disease; Dr. Mitchell…