Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) published an article titled, "Tensions of In/fertility and Identity: A Rhetorical Autoethnography of Environmentalism, Motherhood, and Womanhood" in the Quarterly Journal of Speech. The article examines the author's personal experiences with infertility as a vehicle to reflect on rhetorical…

Manas Yogendra Agrawal, a Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences working in Dr. Janice M. Pluth’s lab (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences), delivered a flash talk and presented a poster titled “ATF2, a Mechanistic Node in Radiation-Induced Esophageal Carcinogenesis” at the 2026 annual meeting of the Environmental Mutagenesis and…

Internal medicine resident Ahmad Malik and second year medical students Kara and Rahul (all Medicine) presented their abstracts at the Nevada ACP state competition.

Michelle Tusan's (History) essay, "Violence and Genocide" appeared in The Interwar World, a volume recently awarded the American Historical Association's Waldo G. Leland Prize. 

Aparna Polavarapu (Law) delivered a keynote address entitled, “Understanding Community-Involved Mechanisms for Responding to and Preventing Violence” at the Nevada Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence (NCEDSV) Annual Conference.

Drew Simshaw (Law) recently spoke at the TILE Institute Annual Symposium, "Legal Technology for Equitable Justice." He joined an expert panel to discuss “Legal Practice and Ethical Access to Technology.”

Professor Joe Regalia (Law) served as the lead faculty for the Judicial Clerkship Bootcamp, a three-day in-person training program hosted by the Boyd School of Law in partnership with the National Judicial College. Over the course of the intensive program, Prof. Regalia led nine sessions to help prepare attendees for success in the judiciary.

Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored "Global, regional, and national prevalence of second-hand smoke and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023," published in The Lancet Public Health. The study is the first Global Burden of Disease publication…

Associate professor Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood Special Education) was part of the research and writing team for the 2026 position statement from national organizations Division for Early Childhood/National Association for the Education of Young Children--Early Childhood Inclusion. First published in 2009--this statement is used…