Kevin Wright (Student Diversity and Social Justice) has been selected as one of the recipients of the #BetterMoneyHabits 50 Under $50K list, recognizing 50 young professionals who are practicing solid financial habits on starting salaries of $50,000 or less. He was chosen from more than 2,000 applicants from across the country. This…
Philip Danquah (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented a poster, "Perceptions, Barriers, Attitudes, and Enablers of HIV Prevention Market Strategies among Young College Women: A Systematic Gap Analysis Using Diffusion of Innovation Theory," at the 2018 Nevada Public Health Annual Conference in Las Vegas last month. Danquah is pursuing a…
Susan Byrne (World Languages) was an invited guest for a celebration of International Hispanism, organized by the foundation Duques de Soria, earlier this month. Fifty-eight invited Hispanists from 35 countries participated in the events, held in the Casa de las Americas, the Real Academia de la Lengua Española and the Palacio de El Pardo in…
Johan Bester (Medicine) recently had two papers published. His work in bioethics moves the needle forward in the discussion of vaccination. He reframes how we might consider the issue. Bester argues the correct starting point is not what society owes parents, but rather what society owes children. In a separate…
Drs. Edward Lynch and Dr. Martin Grootveld (both Dental) recently published “Mutagenicity Potential of New Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) Materials Incorporated with Azadirachta Indica (Neem) against Salmonella typhimurium” in the international online, open access, peer-reviewed Elsevier Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research.…
Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) recently was interviewed on KNPR's State of Nevada about his op-ed in the Las Vegas Sun calling for more oversight for payday lending firms.
Deborah Arteaga (World Languages) has been certified as a medical interpreter (Spanish-English) by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters.
Katherine Howard (Dental) is the senior author of "Differential miRNA Expression in Oral Cancer Oncosomes: A Pilot In Vitro Study" in the International Research Journal of Oncology with Dannica Brennan, Kunal Patel and Karl Kingsley (all Dental).
Eduardo Robleto (Life Sciences) has been awarded a three-year grant for $428,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study mechanisms of evolution in stressed bacteria. His research team includes international scientists and seeks to understand how microbes, including bacterial pathogens, adapt to inhospitable environments or become…
After years of building a career at a large accounting firm, Gloribert Roque-Melendez planned an early retirement. Guest lecturing at UNLV gave her an unexpected reason to change course.
From a COVID-Era Student to Occupational Therapy Instructor at UNLV
Kayla Ford was among the first students in the university's OT program. Now she teaches mental health-related courses in the School of Integrated Health Sciences.