Latisha Nixon-Jones (Law) was honored as a Community Leader at Dean Lamar Allen Elementary School.

Professor Michael Kagan and Alissa Cooley Yonesawa (both Law) of the UNLV Immigration Clinic recently published an essay in the University of Cincinnati Law Review titled "Civil Rights Microviolations." Drawing on their clinical experience, the authors define and analyze this new conceptual framework for understanding immigration law. 

Marketa Trimble (Law) recently traveled to Prague to guest lecture at Charles University. She joined Dr. Petra Žikovská’s class at the Faculty of Law to lead a discussion on Current Issues in U.S. Copyright Law.

Gary Totten (Faculty Affairs) has published an article, “McTeague and the Afterlives of Empire,” in the journal Arizona Quarterly. Totten discusses Frank Norris’s novel 1899 McTeague and its Mexican American character Maria Macapa in the contexts of the 1846-48 Mexican-American War and the Californio testimonios gathered afterward as part of…

Ph.D. student Hiraku Nagahori (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences), under the mentorship of Kai Yu Ho, Ph.D., (Physical Therapy) and in collaboration with James Kenyon (Teaching and Learning), is advancing innovative rehabilitation strategies for individuals with chronic low back pain. In their recent study, the team investigated how a simple, low…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual oral paper titled, “The genesis of Perfection Quotient (PQ) in health promotion research,” at the 4th International Congress on Behavioral & Social Science Research (ICBSSR 2026) held in Rome, Italy. Perfection Quotient is a novel behavioral model developed by…

Hannah Novak and Tara McManus (both Communication Studies) published their article "'But What About Me?': How Memorable Messages Received During Catholic Sex Education Contribute to the Development of Identity Gaps." The study involved in-depth interviews with 15 participants to explore how memorable messages received in Catholic sex education…

Members of the Project Wellness executive board along with committee chairs presented to Mission Fulfillment and Sustainability Fellows with the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (UNLV's accreditor). Students presented data on the progress Project Wellness has made helping students on UNLV's campus and next steps in preparation for…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored "Association of age at pancreatic cancer diagnosis with smoking and drinking: A hospital-based and meta-analysis study," which was published in Advances in Digestive Medicine. The study conducted two analyses: First, a systematic review used meta-analysis to examine the association…