Kara Christensen (Psychology) and colleagues from University of California, San Diego (led by Brittany Bohrer, Ph.D.), University of Kansas, and Children's Mercy Hospital-Kansas published a paper on their new mobile phone app for treating eating disorders in International Journal of Eating Disorders: "A multiple-baseline study of a…

Maryam Hadi and Elizabeth Stacy (both Life Sciences) have published: "An optimized RNA extraction method for diverse leaves of Hawaiian Metrosideros, a hypervariable tree species complex" in the journal Applications in Plant Sciences.  This paper describes a safe and relatively rapid protocol for RNA extraction from a range of…

Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health), Malcolm Ahlo (Southern Nevada Health District), Kacie Washburn (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Shawn Gerstenberger (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article titled, "…

The office of undergraduate research (OUR) was awarded the Nevada Commission on Mentoring (NCOM) Spring 2023 Micro-grant for the project, “Expanding Research Education Program (REP) for High School Students Across Academic Disciplines." The funds, acquired by Levent Atici, executive director of undergraduate research and PI, and Rafael…

Daniel Chi (Finance) recently wrote a guest column published in VEGAS INC titled, "Compounding interest can make us all millionaires, and taking interest in sharing this phenomenon can educate all Nevadans." Chi shares the gloomy state of personal finances in the U.S. along with advice that if implemented could make anyone a millionaire. He also…

Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies Program; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed by a journalist from Charleston, South Carolina's The Post and Courier about the remarks by Republican Governor Henry McMaster who "joked" about hunting Democrats with dogs. Parry provided context about the racist…

Shawn McCoy (Economics; Lied Center for Real Estate) and Nicholas Irwin (Economics) were both recently interviewed by the Las Vegas Sun about their recent research article studying residential development in the aftermath of wildfires.

Yuko Shinozaki (Libraries) is the winner of the Libraries Classified Staff of the Year Award. She was nominated for her exceptional customer service and dedication to leading the Libraries' Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan unit. 

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's ombuds office. This week's column, "Why Do We Have an Ombuds, Anyway?," explores the origins of the ombuds profession and how universities have, over the past 50 years, increasingly turned to ombuds. For more information about the…