Javon Johnson (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies), associate professor of African American Studies and renowned poet, began coaching a slam poetry team in Las Vegas in January 2025 and, in March 2025, the team won its first major poetry slam tournament in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

On April 14, Roberto Lovato (English) was interviewed by Emma Vigeland and the popular Majority Report podcast and radio show about the historic meeting between President Trump and Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.  

Roberto Lovato (English) wrote an article for The Nation magazine about "The Deadly Seriousness Behind Trump and Bukele’s 'Joke'," which analyzes what Trump and the U.S. are learning from Bukele and what people in this country can learn from the long history of anti-fascist struggle in El Salvador.

Stephen Bates (Journalism and Media Studies) addressed the Antitrust and Competition Conference at the University of Chicago on April 10. The conference theme was Economic Concentration and the Marketplace of Ideas. Bates spoke on the opening panel.

Cyrus Ford (Libraries) is the winner of the Libraries' Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award. Ford was nominated for his significant inclusive cataloging work, increasing accuracy and representation within UNLV’s local catalog and the Library of Congress Subject Headings. At UNLV, he manually reviewed and updated hundreds of records to follow the…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Determinants of infertility treatment from the point of couples referring to infertility treatment center in Southern Iran,” in association with coauthors from Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences in the journal Scientific Reports (Impact factor 3.8…

Congratulations to the UNLV racquetball team who competed in Corporate Challenge on Thursday, April 10. They won 1st overall and 10 points for UNLV. Competitors were Adam Koebke (Mathematics) who won gold in men's singles, Venki Muthukumar (Electrical Engineering) and Sai Parsa (Computer Science) who won gold in men's doubles, and Erica Marti…

Dr. Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (Medicine) associate professor of internal medicine and Governor of the Nevada Chapter of the American College of Physicians, was awarded two 2025 John Tooker Evergreen Awards for enriching, educating, and engaging membership. The Nevada Chapter partnered with the Arizona Chapter to engineer debates between residency teams…

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) presented a poster titled "A Mandibular Radiolucency Leads to Extra-Oral Findings and an Unexpected Multiple Myeloma Diagnosis" during the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology annual meeting earlier this month. The case focused on a 49-year-old female who was initially referred to oral surgery for…