Bo Bernhard (International Gaming Institute) received a total of $139,372 in grant funding from the Nevada department of health and human services for the Nevada Problem Gambling Project. The funding will be used to support ongoing data collection and research projects that study several stages of the client experience in engaging state-funded…

At this year's NASPA Annual Conference, Roberto C. Orozco (Student Engagement & Diversity) co-presented "Breaking the Black/White Binary: La Lucha in Student Affairs" which "examined the struggle for increased Latinx representation in student affairs upper administration."  Roberto also participated on the panel for "Forging a…

Congratulations to Jeff Waddoups who was invited to speak to the Nevada chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association on March 15. Waddoups is a professor of economics and chair of the department of economics in Lee Business School. As an expert in labor economics, his presentation, "Prevailing Wage Laws and School…

Saruna Ghimire and Karen Callahan (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article, "Nutritional Assessment of Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Rural Nepal," in the Public Library of Science with Binaya Kumar Baral from the Department of Biochemistry in the Nepal Medical College and Teaching…

The American Marketing Association  (the marketing industry's premier trade organization) selected UNLV's collegiate AMA student group as a finalist in its case competition. The student group has been invited to present their plan to executives from eBay in New Orleans at the 39th Annual American Marketing Association’s…

Eric Weber (Architecture) contributed a chapter to the new book, Designbuild Education, edited by Chad Kraus. Assistant professor Weber's chapter, entitled "From Scratch: How to Start a Designbuild Program" outlines the lessons learned from creating the David G. Howryla Design Build Studio at the UNLV School of Architecture.  …

Amanda Sokolowsky, Erika Marquez, Erin Sheehy, Casey Barber, and Shawn Gerstenberger (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently authored "Health Hazards in the Home: An Assessment of a Southern Nevada Community," which appeared in the February issue of Journal of Community Health. The study focused on health outcomes in…

Dieu-My Tran (Nursing) co-authored “Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among College Students: Knowledge, Perception, and Risk Assessment,” which concluded high knowledge level of cardiovascular risk factors was not sufficient to lower potential risks within the study population, but changing perception of those factors may play a bigger role in reducing…

Joseph Lombardo (National Supercomputing Institute) received a total of $301,625 from the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. Lombardo currently serves as the Core-PI on the National Institutes of Health’s Center of Biomedical Research Excellence award titled “Center for Neurodegeneration and Transcranial Neuroscience (CNTN)’s Data…