Malena Baizan (Teaching and Learning) and Joseph Castellanos (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) contributed to the forthcoming edited volume Battle of the Bans: Narratives of Reading and Engaging with Banned Books. Published by Myers Education Press, this timely collection arrives during a global surge in censorship, ranging from…

The RAPID (Rural Aerial Provision of Intervention & Delivery) initiative has been selected as one of three winning projects in the President’s Interdisciplinary Research Accelerator Challenge, organized by the UNLV Division of Research. RAPID is co-led by principal investigator Kavita Batra and co-PI Dr. Deborah Kuhls (both Medicine). The…

Van “DocDoc” Whaley (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) presented a poster at the Nineteenth Annual Leadership Workshop of the American Kinesiology Association, held Jan. 29-31, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia. Whaley’s poster, "Scaling Undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology: Exam Pools, Video Accessibility, and Master Schedules for 1,200 Students,"…

Noehealani Antolin (Medicine), Blessing Imade (Medicine), Ana Reyes (Medicine), Selam Ayele (Medicine), Eric Aguila (NLV VA Medical Center), Jenny Kent (Integrated Health Sciences), Deborah A. Kuhls (Medicine), Szu-Ping Lee (Integrated Health Sciences), presented a poster titled, "Adaptive Driving Assessments and Return to Independent Driving…

Noehealani Antolin, William Porter, Kavita Batra, Ana L. Reyes, Blessing Imade, Selam Ayele, and Deborah A. Kuhls (all Medicine) presented a poster titled, "Toward a Comprehensive, Interdisciplinary Road User Data System: A Methodological Framework for Linking Traffic Safety and Medical Datasets," at the UNLV 2026 Interdisciplinary Research…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) joined a Facebook Live panel sponsored by the Las Vegas Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in which he discussed the history of Black people in Las Vegas and the efforts of the NAACP in pursuing social justice throughout Southern…

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) along with a group of national and international experts in food polyphenol research published a review on wild blueberries and cardiometabolic health in the journal Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition (impact factor 8.8). This article extensively reviews the agricultural…

Daniel Chi (Finance) has been appointed by Chancellor Matt McNair to represent the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) on the Nevada Advisory Council for Financial Literacy. As the Council’s higher education representative, Chi will help ensure that postsecondary perspectives are integrated into statewide financial literacy…

Beomsu Baek and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) published a paper, "Stochastic LASSO: enhanced high-dimensional LASSO for high-throughput genomic data," in Scientific Reports. Stochastic LASSO, a powerful linear-based feature selection method designed for extremely high-dimensional, low-sample-size (EHDLSS) genomic data. Key highlights…