Mohammed Kaabar (Mathematical Sciences), has been selected as one of the 25 recipients of the 2026 Peer Reviewers Extraordinaire Award by MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching), a program of California State University, Long Beach. The recognition was announced during the OLC Innovate 2026 Conference, an…

Annaliese Grant (Sociology) and her coauthor recently published a paper, "Watching scripted fiction: Repertoires of co-viewing, time, and attention to scripted series and movies in Australia," in Poetics. 

Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) gave a keynote for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Spring Conference in Indianapolis, IN on February 11, 2026.

Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) was awarded a CPM Rapid Response Grant ($25,000).

The administrative team and lead consultants of the UNLV Writing Center presented Practicing Timeless Strategies for Effective Writing (No AI Required!) at the 2026 ExplOER Nevada virtual summit on Friday, March 6. Presenters were Alanna Bitzel (Assistant Director), Shelbi Fitzpatrick (Lead Consultant), Amie Green (Interim…

Christopher J. Fang, Cameron Harris, Matthew Michelberger, Alex Woster, Hilary Koech, Karen Nelson (all Medicine) won “Top Paper Award” at the National American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) 2026 annual meeting. Selected out of 7,000+ abstracts 

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) was a senior collaborator in the GBD 2023 Breast Cancer Collaborators in the publication of the article, “Global, regional, and national burden of breast cancer among females, 1990–2023, with forecasts to 2050: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023” in the…

Monika Karney, alumna Taylor Gerson, and Helen Wing (Life Sciences) published a paper in Nucleic Acids Research (Oxford University Press). Gerson completed her Ph.D. in December and is a post-doc at Scripps Research, San Diego, Calif. Karney is a self-funded MS student who works as a lab manager on Wing's team. 

Richard Saladino and Greg Voelker (both Libraries) recently presented "Using Data Visualization for Facilitating Interactive Collection Management Analysis with Subject Stakeholders" at the 2026 Electronic Resources & Libraries Fest conference.