Van “DocDoc” Whaley (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), faculty-in-residence and A&P program coordinator, recently presented at ExplOER Nevada 2026, a statewide virtual symposium focused on open and affordable learning. His session, "Reimagining Learning Beyond the Textbook: Open Course Design for Equity, Rigor, and Enjoyment at Scale,"…

Avinash Yaganapu, Sai Phani Parsa, and Mingon Kang (all Computer Science) published a paper, "Prediction of bacterial Cytochrome P450-compound interactions based on positive-unlabeled deep learning," in Bioinformatics. Many biological interaction datasets (e.g., protein-compound interactions) suffer from a fundamental problem: we often only…

Hans Rawhouser (Management & Entrepreneurship) recently published "Configurations of Social Impact and Behavioral Search" in Journal of Business Ethics (rated as a top journal in Financial Times' international business school ranking). If you're interested in how social enterprises can take different approaches to achieving social impact…

Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled, “Long-term temperature exposure and depression incidence in the Nurses’ Health Study II, a U.S.-based prospective cohort,” in the journal Environment International, in association with researchers from Harvard, University of California and OHSU-PSU School of Public Health.…

Alireza Rezaee, Dr. Asma Tahir, Dr. Mark Buttner, and Dr. Joram Seggev (UNLV Pollen Lab; Public Health) presented a poster titled, "Comparison of Weed Pollen Concentrations in Las Vegas and the Mojave Desert from 2020-2022," at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) 2026 Conference in Philadelphia on…

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…