Dr. Lina Nih (Medicine) was awarded the Peter G. Kaufman Award for Translational Research at the 2026 UNLV Health Sciences Research Symposium.

The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents officially gave their approval of Dr. Samantha John (Brain Health) receiving the Jason Geddes Rising Researcher award in their last meeting. This is a prestigious award at UNLV and really highlights John's scientific contributions as well as the efforts to build and grow the outreach…

Ph.D. graduate Theresa T. Roehr, Patricia Cruz, and Mark Buttner (all School of Public Health) coauthored a paper titled, “Quantitative universal fungal PCR analysis of environmental air samples from Las Vegas, Nevada,” in the journal Aerobiologia. The paper assesses how environmental conditions in Las Vegas play a role in the distribution and…

Department of Art members Hikmet Loe (Visiting Assistant Professor), Alina Lindquist (MFA 2028), and Andre Polidoro (BA Art History and BA Computer Science 2025) presented at the ExplOER Nevada Symposium. Their session, "Beyond Books: Open Education Brings Art History to Life," shared teaching practices and student engagement in the course Art 478…

Nantiya Ruan's (Law) forthcoming article, "Working Notice," has been accepted for publication in the University of Illinois Law Review.

An article by assistant professor Renata Guzzo (Hospitality) and co-authors, published in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, explores the factors influencing employee participation in the circular economy (CE). In "Unlocking hotel circularity: The role of employees' primary appraisals, job crafting, participation and…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), together with the 2023 Breast Cancer Collaborators, contributed to the landmark study “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,” published in The Lancet Oncology and funded by the Gates…

Jie Ren, Kavita Batra, San Tran, Mutsumi Kioka (all Medicine), along with student researchers, have published their study, “Critical care utilization associated with an electronic dance music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada: A retrospective cohort study of the Electric Daisy Carnival,” in Preventive Medicine Reports. This study examines patterns of…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave the 2026 Ann Gary and Sharon Bishop Endowed Lecture in Feminist Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. Her lecture was entitled "Borders as Intimacy Violation: Toward a Feminist Theory of Borders".