David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently gave a presentation for the UNLV Alumni Association's Rebel Recharge series entitled “Lessons Learned from COVID and the Path Ahead.”  Drawing on his research into Las Vegas and hospitality history, Schwartz offered four main lessons (and one bonus one) that Southern Nevada can learn from its…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored op-ed, "Lee Tung-hui's leadership legacy", on East Asian Forum, a peer-reviewed foreign policy discussion forum. This article analyzes representative surveys ranking all four elected presidents in Taiwan since the democratization in 1996. The result shows that the…

Dr. Jay Fisher (Medicine), director of pediatric clinical education for the department of emergency medicine, co-authored a case report titled "Rapid and severe neurologic deterioration due to influenza associated encephalopathy in a healthy child," which was recently published in the peer-reviewed The American Journal of Emergency…

UNLV's Center for Academic Enrichment and Outreach was awarded five Educational Talent Search grants through the Department of Education. Combined these grants are funded for $7.6 million and will serve more than 3,000 low-income and/or first-generation middle and high school students at 18 Clark County target schools over the five-…

Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering), director of UNLV's Transportation Research Center, was recently appointed to serve as a voting member on the Nevada Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety. Nambisan has more than 30 years of experience in developing research enterprises and has led efforts on more than 170 projects,…

Jason Flatt (Environmental & Occupational Health) was appointed by the National Institutes of Health to serve as a member of the Career Development for Early Career Investigators Study Section, National Institute on Aging Initial Review Group, National Institute on Aging. Membership on an Initial/Integrated Review Group represents a…

Lisa Ly, Yonosuke DeJesus and Guadalope Moreno Ceballos, Dylone C. Braganza, James M. Hyman, Katie Gilbertson, Raisa Kabir, Manoj Sharma, Sayeda Tazim Zaidi, Chia-Liang Dai, and Nathalie Martinez all published manuscripts in the Spectra Undergraduate Research Journal’s spring 2021 issue. This issue celebrates the work of undergraduate…

Timothy Grigsby (Environmental & Occupational Health) published a commentary on "Leaving "Drug Abuse" behind: A Theoretical and Methodological Heuristic to Selecting "Problem Drug Use" or "Drug Misuse" as Alternative Terms" in the journal Substance Use and Misuse. This commentary provides a guide to selecting alternative terms for drug abuse…

Cory Lampert (Libraries) lead a session, "Better Together: Creating Solutions To The Challenges Of Data Use, Reuse, And Sharing," at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institution World Library And Information Congress 2021. The session included case studies and creative solutions demonstrated by librarians and…