Michelle Light and Cory Lampert (University Libraries) recently received two grants totaling $54,900 from the Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial to fund digitization projects in Special Collections and Archives. The first grant for $49,400 will fund the digitization of the Las Vegas Age, which ran from 1905-1947, and the region’s first…

Mark Buttner and Patricia Cruz (both Environmental and Occupational Health) received a one-year, $1.2M award from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services to conduct molecular biological environmental monitoring.

Andrew Hardin (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology).recently published a sole authored article in the prestigous methods journal Psychological Methods. The full reference is: "A call for theory to support the use of causal-formative indicators: A commentary on Bollen and Diamantopoulos (2017)". Psychological Methods, 22(3), 597-604.

Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored "Sleep Duration Associated with Cardiovascular Conditions Among Adult Nevadans," which appeared in the journal Sleep Medicine. UNLV's Timothy Bungum (Professor,  Environmental and Occupational Health) and Jennifer Pharr (Assistant Professor, Environmental and…

Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) was quoted in the Kingman Daily Miner article "Millennials appear to be missing from the religious landscape." Borer has published on related issues about religion and popular culture in articles as well as in his books including Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America's Most…

Kathrine M. Howard and Karl Kingsley (both Dental) recently published the article "Oral Microbial Ecology of Selenomonas noxia and Scardovia wiggsiae" in the Microbiology Research Journal International with two dental students, Jaydene McDaniel and Steven McDaniel, and an Orthodontic Dental Resident, Dr. Amy Tam.

Tedd Girouard (Athletic Training) served as keynote speaker during the “Strength Training for Endurance Athletes Seminar” hosted by the Las Vegas Triathlon Club. An accomplished triathlete, he addressed multiple aspects of strength training including frequency, training time management, and which exercises are most beneficial when preparing…

Cyndi Shein, Carol Ou, Karla Irwin, and Carlos Lemus (all Libraries), published "Open-Source Open Doors: A Case Study on Extending ArchivesSpace Code at UNLV Libraries" in the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies. Libraries is in its third year of implementing an open-source archival collection management application, ArchivesSpace, and is…

Dharini Bhammar (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) is a co-investigator on a five-year, $2.7 million RO1 grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine whether overweight children have more breathing limitations, intolerance for exercise, and breathlessness when exercising compared to normal-weight children, leading to possible…