Richard Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with Amin Mokari-Yamchi (Urmia University of Medical Sciences), published a paper titled, "The association between weight misperception and weight-related behaviors among U.S. adults with overweight and obesity," in the journal BMC Public Health. 

The Nevada Breastfeeding Coalition awarded Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) the 2025 Golden Droplet Award. Buccini is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and a leading researcher on breastfeeding nationally and globally. Since relocating to UNLV and Las Vegas, Buccini has received over 7 million in research and…

Jeff Stempel (Law) gave a presentation for the University of Connecticut’s New Ideas in Insurance series titled, “The Need for a Contra Pertinacia Canon of Insurance Policy Construction.”

Gabriela Buccini, Manoj Sharma, Timothy J. Grigsby, master's student Ambree Schoetker, master's student Smriti Neupane (all Public Health); Dodds Simangan, Jyoti Desai (both Medicine); Ana Poblacion (Children's HealthWatch), and NIH colleagues Alison Brown and Juanita Chinn published, "Food insecurity questionnaire on knowledge,…

Tom Romero (Law) presented a seminar to the faculty, staff, and students of the Law School and School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia on Nov. 20.  Romero's seminar reported his preliminary findings of a new project, “The Rise of a White Water Citizenry in the Arid-Metropolitan Australia and United States: The…

Benjamin Edwards (Law) served as a panelist for the 2025 Dan K. Moore Program in Ethics: Sea Changes in Business Law. He spoke on the panel “Challengers to Delaware’s Dominance — Texas & Nevada.”

Maryam Ahranjani (Law) recently spoke at the Boston University Law Review Symposium, The University and Democracy. Her presentation, “Universities as Sanctuaries,” was part of the panel Policing the University and drew from her essay of the same name, published in the Journal of College and University Law.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping modern anesthesia, and two UNLV fourth-year medical students are helping define that future. Rakshita Giri and Shaik Huma Firdhos (both Medicine) from the Class of 2026 published “Artificial Intelligence in Anesthesia: Enhancing Precision, Safety, and Global Access Through Data-Driven Systems” in the…

Barbara Lewis (Healthcare Administration and Policy) presented her research on Evaluating and Measuring the Impact of Patient and Family Advisory Councils at the Institute for Patient and Family Centered Care webinar.