Endocrinology fellows Dr. Sanna Fatima and Dr. Ainy Aziz (both Medicine) placed 1st and 2nd for the poster competition at the Western Endocrine Association annual meeting held August 25-27 in Sedona, Arizona. Their poster titles were "Type B Insulin Resistance" and "Massive Adreno-myelolipomas due to Longstanding CAH."

Ph.D. candidate and member of the Colorado National Guard Kathryn Bell (Integrated Health Sciences) has been selected to be part of the U.S. Army's inaugural Women's Initiatives Team. This team "is composed of representatives from across the Army who will advocate for Army policy, programs and resource changes to set conditions for success in…

Steven Payne (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and his graduate students recently published a new paper on the role of human attention on the behavior of shelter dogs. In the paper, they assess whether attention serves as a reinforcer to teach new behavior to dogs, if they can condition attention to serve as a reinforcer, and…

Katie Wade-Jaimes, Micah Stohlmann, Katrina Liu (Education), Monika Neda (Sciences), and Mei Yang (Engineering) received a grant of $1.2M from the National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program to prepare culturally competent science and math teachers. The team will prepare a new cadre of eight undergraduate STEM students per…

Professor Roberto Lovato (English) was mentioned in a Los Angeles Times' piece about author Myrian Gurba, with whom he led the #Dignidadliteraria campaign that challenged U.S. publishing in 2020.

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's ombuds office. This week's column, "Space (and lots of it) to Learn: A Personal Journey," discusses how incorporating his experiences in a local improv class has informed his teaching and approach to the ombuds practice in unexpected ways…

Professor Joe Regalia (Law) contributed to a collection of water law articles in the journal of Western Legal History titled "Fighting for Water Equity in the West: Whose Water is it Anyway?".

Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) had their research featured in Las Vegas Weekly. The feature discusses Cross' and Messenger's work, focusing on diseases that can be transmitted by insects. In their Parasitology and Vector Biology lab, they engage in citizen science…

Gary Totten (English) has published an article, "Newland Archer's Crisis of (Im)mobility: Gendered Routes of Travel in The Age of Innocence," in the fall 2023 issue of the journal American Literary Realism. The article examines how the writer Edith Wharton's own travel experiences inform her portrayal of gender, travel, and…