Jillian Inouye and Nada Lukkahatai (Nursing) were part of a research team that received an Outstanding Oral Presentation Award for the project "Wearable Technology and Bio-psycho-social Measures of Symptom Burden" during the Optimizing Health Care Quality: Teamwork in Education, Research, and Practice Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand. More than…

P. Jane Hafen (English) and Brenden Rensink of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University recently directed a seminar on American Indians and Mormons. The participants reconsidered history and narrative with an emphasis on indigenous experience.

Daniel Emaasit (Civil & Environmental Engineering) was invited by the United Nations Global Pulse to present his research at the 2016 Data Science Africa Workshop. This unique conference brought together experts from academia, industry, government, and development partners to discuss how big data and data science can be used to monitor and…

Dr. Karl Kingsley (Dental School) recently published the manuscript "Oral Microbial Prevalence of Periodontal Pathogens among Orthodontic Patients" with  David Jolley, Kaylee Wonder, and Ecsile Change, all students in the School of Dental Medicine, in the International Journal of Dentistry and Oral Health. 

Dr. Karl Kingsley (Dental School) was promoted to professor of biomedical sciences at the UNLV School of Dental Medicine as of July 1. He has been with the dental school as a faculty member since 2002 and currently also serves as the director of student research.

Patricia Heisser Metoyer (Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies) has been nominated for a National Women’s Studies Association Women’s Center Award. Established in 1977, the National Women's Studies Association promotes and supports the production and dissemination of knowledge about women and gender through teaching, learning, research,…

David G. Schwartz (Center for Gaming Research, UNLV University Libraries) was asked to put the recent awarding of an National Hockey League franchise to Las Vegas into historical context for the Washington Post. His opinion piece, which draws on his historical research into gambling, ran on JUne 27.

Karl Kingsley (Dental Medicine) recently co-authored three abstracts and presented this research at the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) conference in Seoul, South Korea, in June. UNLV Dental School student John Silvaroli was the keynote oral speaker for the nutrition section with his research presentation," Folic Acid…

Tom Tozier (Reprographics & Design Services) recently gave a presentation at the In-Plant Printing & Mailing Association's annual conference in Denver. The topic was "Making Your Strategic Plan a Reality."