Kara Radzak (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) received the 2017 National Athletic Trainers’ Association Foundation's New Investigator research grant for her study titled “An Evaluation of the Prevalence and Effectiveness of Care Provided by Athletic Trainers in a Military Population.” The work will characterize the care provided by athletic…

Danny Siciliano, Marion Canestrier, Kevin Curry, Annie Bellorin, Andrea Debrino, and Daniel Dinev (all Accounting) won the IMA (Institute of Management Accountants) Case Competition and took home $5,000. This marked UNLV's first time participating in the competition, which focused on cost allocations, performance evaluation and…

Emma Babler, Benjamin Edwards, Mary LaFrance, Elizabeth MacDowell, Laura Vlieg, Stacey Tovino, Sara Gordon, and Brian Wall (all Law) attended and presented work at the International Meeting of the Law and Society Association in Mexico City in June. Babler presented her paper with Wall on "Masons or Architects;" Benjamin Edwards…

Karen West (Dental Medicine) attended the International College of Dentists Section XIII-China Annual Meeting and Induction Ceremony held in Chengdu, China, in April as the event’s keynote speaker. Dr. West spoke about the United States dental school accreditation process. Her status as a fellow in the organization allowed her to participate…

Dr. Christina Demopoulos and Marcia Ditmyer (both Dental) co-authored the study “Bridging the HPV Knowledge Gap,” which addresses the association between human papillomavirus and oral cancer, as well as the responsibility of oral health professionals to educate their patients about the connection. The findings appeared in the June issue of…

Danny Young (Physical Therapy) presented the successes of his Center on Health Services Training and Research (CoHSTAR) fellowship to the organization’s executive and advisory boards; he was the only faculty fellow selected to provide this report. Young also presented the study he co-authored, “Does Patient Mobility Predict Value-Based Outcomes in…

Valarie Burke and Katelyn DiBenedetto (both Graduate College) on behalf of the UNLV chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, have been awarded a literacy grant from Phi Kappa Phi. The grant will be used for Project Transforming Tomorrow, an afterschool program aimed at providing greater access to information about higher education to high school students in…

Daniel Gerrity (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), Brett Levner (Film) and a group of students collaborated to create a short documentary about water conservation and reuse in Southern Nevada. Their project was funded by a grant from the the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program…

Forty undergraduates recently were awarded scholarships through the office of undergraduate research's summer undergraduate research funding (OUR SURF) program. These scholarships support undergraduate research, scholarship, entrepreneurial, performance, or visual art projects in the summer months. A total of $39,000 in funding was…