Dr. Rassilee Sharma (Dental) presented a poster at the 2026 IADR/AADOCR/CADR General Session & Exhibition, held March 25-28, 2026, in San Diego. The poster, titled, “Assessment of Posterior Composite Failures Using Updated FDI Criteria,” represented the outcome of a collaborative research project involving Carter Gehlken, Jacob Seaney,…

Nachman Gutowski (Law) authored an organizational update on the Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) for Raising the Bar. This quarterly publication by the AccessLex Institute focuses on sharing evidence-based insights regarding the bar exam.

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator, coauthored an article titled, “Global, regional and national burden of ischemic heart disease attributable to suboptimal diet, 1990–2023: A Global Burden of Disease study,” in collaboration with GBD 2023 IHD and Dietary Risk Factor Collaborators in the…

Leanne Soter (Service Learning & Leadership) presented a Promising Practice session at the annual Campus Compact Conference on Monday, March 16, 2026. The session was titled "Stirring the Pot: Small Conversations, Big Impact" and shared about the "It's Just Coffee" event series that creates safe(r)/brave spaces for students to engage in open,…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Application of the multi-theory model to determine predictors of initiating and sustaining stress management behaviors in undergraduate college students,” in the Journal of Public Health in the Deep South in collaboration with coauthors from the…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator, coauthored an article titled, “Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis, its risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990–2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023,” in the journal,The Lancet Neurology (impact factor: 45.5).…

Aparna Polavarapu (Law) served as a guest lecturer at UC Law San Francisco, where she presented on "Restorative Justice, Community and the Politics of Rights."

John Curry (History) was a presenter on a roundtable at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) this past weekend. The roundtable was titled "Reactions to Authoritarianism: Connecting the Historical to the Contemporary," and included several UNLV faculty members from various global fields…

Sam Inayat (Psychology; Neuroscience) published an article in Scientific Reports (Springer-Nature) titled “Distinct neural signatures of hippocampal population dynamics during locomotion-in-place.”  The study investigates how brain activity changes during different movement states, focusing on the hippocampus, a region critical for memory,…