Kavita Batra (Medicine), in collaboration with the GBD 2021 Dietary Iron Deficiency Collaborators, has co-authored a landmark study titled, "Global, regional, and national burden of dietary iron deficiency from 1990 to 2021: a Global Burden of Disease Study," published in Nature Medicine. The study reveals that despite notable global progress…
Marla Goins (Teaching and Learning), a researcher who studies intersectional educational experiences and practices, recently published an article co-authored with Maria Aline Soares, a teacher-activist based in Brazil. The article is titled, "'A Window Can Also Be a Mirror': Cultivating Two-Way Mirrors for Solidarity." It is published in Bookbird…
Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) and colleagues from University of Illinois Chicago and University of Kansas recently published "Ecological momentary assessment of between- and within-person sleep quality as a predictor of disordered eating behaviors among young women with disordered eating" in Appetite. This project stemmed from an honors…
William Sipe (Honors College), assistant professor-in-residence, has released a co-authored book with Casey Ryan Kelly titled, Manifesting Violence: White Terrorism, Digital Culture, and the Rhetoric of Replacement. It investigates the ways in which racial hate is spread through digital ecosystems, including through jokes, memes, and manifestos.…
Dean Shawn Gerstenberger (Public Health) and Dean Muge Akpinar-Elci with the UNR School of Public Health co-authored a column about supporting a strong public health system in Nevada.
Ph.D. candidate Ebenezer Belete (Learning Sciences) was selected as one of three featured speakers for the Inspiration, Innovation, Impact (I³) session during the 27th Annual Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum at UNLV. His presentation highlighted the development of a GPT-powered conversational assistant designed to…
Professor Raef Granger (Law) presented on "Issue Spotting (How to See What We Are Not Seeing) at the Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) Conference.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) and Peter Higgins (Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University) published "Gender and Migration" in Handbook of Migration Ethics, edited by Andreas Niederberger, Uchenna Okeja, and Johanna Gordemann.
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.