Aparna Polavarapu (Law) was a panelist on Rethinking Restorative Justice at Righting Wrongs Through Restoration, a symposium by the Nebraska Law Review.
Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored a new journal article in New Phytologist quantifying drought mortality effects in global tree ring datasets. The paper is titled "Flashy, decoupled, or declining? Single theories fail to explain the diversity of drought mortality signals in tree rings."
Amber Krushas (Soluri) (Criminal Justice) published a book titled, "A Review of Personal Recurrent Victimization: Examining the Literature on Recurrent, Repeat, Multiple, Poly, and Revictimization" under SpringerBriefs in Criminology. The book outlines over 550 studies that assess five different forms of recurrent victimization over the last four…
Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health); Ashish Kumar Biswas (Epidemiology and Biostatistics); Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, "Evidence-based clinical effectiveness of Kundalini Yoga: Systematic review of RCTs across multiple health conditions" in the journal, Alternative…
Larissa McNeil (Medicine) presented a poster entitled "A Retrospective Evaluation of Psychiatric Recommendations Using the Injured Trauma Survivor Screen" at the American College of Surgeons 2025 Clinical Congress, on behalf of colleagues at UNLV and University Medical Center -- Jayme Ching, Yvonne Ramos and Allison McNickle (all Medicine). …
Jalal Uddin (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) and Jason D. Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently co-authored an article published in Healthcare (MDPI). The study, “Prevalence and Predictors of Musculoskeletal Pain Among Pregnant Women: A Cross-Sectional Study,” examined the burden of musculoskeletal pain among pregnant women in Bangladesh…
Published: Gregory A. Borchard and Denitsa H. Yotova
Gregory Borchard and Denitsa Yotova (both Journalism and Media Studies) have co-authored Pressing Matters: A Chronicle of American Media (New York: Peter Lang), 2025; 332 pages, ISBN-13: 9781636675381.
They write: "Given the highly globalized and converged sets of communication technologies in the contemporary media landscape,…
After years of building a career at a large accounting firm, Gloribert Roque-Melendez planned an early retirement. Guest lecturing at UNLV gave her an unexpected reason to change course.
From a COVID-Era Student to Occupational Therapy Instructor at UNLV
Kayla Ford was among the first students in the university's OT program. Now she teaches mental health-related courses in the School of Integrated Health Sciences.