Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) gave the opening keynote for the University of Arizona's Humanizing and Culturally Affirming Teacher Preparation Program (HCAT) Summer Institute (June 23, 2026).

Dale Melgaard (Film) has received on "Official Selection" for the screenplay, The Phatman, at the Ciudad de Mexico International Film Festival.

David Basulto; Jacqueline Gamboa; Guadalupe Vazquez-Perez; Vidhani Goel;Roberto Sagaribay; Jyoti Desai; and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) published a study "Educational Interventions for Labor Epidural Awareness in the United States: Protocol for a Scoping Review" in JMIR Research Protocols. This scoping review aims to map the extent,…

Researchers from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, including Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine), published the following article on workplace violence in trauma centers: Liepert A, Fallat M, Capella J, Fox A, Kuhls D, Galink G, Fischer P, Gates J, Toscano N, Kelley K, Chung S, Doucet J. Workplace violence in trauma centers is a…

Hamed Mahmudi (Finance) coauthored a manuscript titled "The Impact of a Principles-Based Approach to Director Gender Diversity" with coauthors from the University of Delaware and the University of Illinois Chicago. The paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), one of the leading journals…

Danielle Finn (Law) was a panelist on "Predictive Markets: Are They the Future of Sports Betting?" at the 2026 Sports Entertainment Innovation (SEI) Con.

Thomas Knoblauch (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) presented his research at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS 2026) in National Harbor, Maryland. His presentation, titled "From Toe Tags to Triage: Rapid PNAD-Based Neutron Dose Estimation for Post-criticality Emergency Response," highlighted a rapid neutron dose…

UNLV has received a $1 million award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as part of the national Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative. Led by the Graduate College in partnership with the colleges of Sciences and Engineering, the four-year initiative will provide fellowship funding for 30+ STEM doctoral students and…

Won-Yong Oh (Management and Entrepreneurship) and his co-authors' paper, "The Power of State Capitalism: Political Regime Shifts and Divergent Outcomes in SOE Performance," was published in the Journal of Management Studies, one of the Financial Times 50 (FT50) journals, a globally recognized list of the world's leading business journals used to…