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. 

Professor Steve Light (Law) moderated the panel discussion, "Fiscal Sovereignty and Taxation: Tool for Tribal Economic Power" at the Tulsa Law Review Symposium: Sovereign Growth: Advancing Tribal Economies in a Changing Regulatory Landscape. 

Kathryn Rand (Law) gave the keynote address at the Tulsa Law Review Symposium: Sovereign Growth: Advancing Tribal Economies in a Changing Regulatory Landscape.

Mary LaFrance (Law) presented her paper "Enforcing The Digital Audio Transmission Mandate" at the Internet Law Works-in-Progress Conference in New York City.

Nachman Gutowski (Law) recently joined the Oklahoma Law Review AI Summit to speak on the panel, “What can be automated in the legal field?” During the session, professor Gutowski shared insights from his latest article, “Disclosing the Machine: Trends, Policies, and Considerations of Artificial Intelligence Use in Law Review Authorship.”…