Co-PI's Jennifer Pharr and Jason Flatt (Public Health) and Renato Liboro (Psychology) along with co-investigators Courtney Coughenour, Krystal Kittle, and Emylia Terry (Public Health) were awarded a CTR-IN grant for their project, "Building Healthy Outcomes Using a Supportive Environment (H.O.U.S.E.) for Sexual and Gender Minorities in…

Mark Hsu, Katrina Naik, Amith Subhash, Jose Aponte-Pieras, Annie Hong, Yousif Elmofti, Muhammad Talha Farooqi, and Shahid Wahid (all Medicine) presented, "Pancreatic Rosai-Dorfman Disease Diagnosed Without Surgery," at the American College of Gastroenterology conference. All are a part of the department of internal medicine in the Kirk…

Chenghui Zhang (Sociology) presented her research titled, "Constructing Racial Hate Crimes: The Complexity of Racial Identities," virtually at the University of Macau, department of sociology, on November 2, 2022. 

Andrew Woods, Stephen Miller, Jinju Lee, graduate student John Magee, and graduate student Zahra Moradpour (all Center for Business and Economic Research) recently won the 2022 Award of Excellence in Print Publications for the center's Population Forecast 2020-2060 from the Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER).…

Dean Ronald T. Brown (Health Sciences), Ph.D., has been elected as the chair of the Fellows Committee of the American Psychological Association.

The National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia will perform the world premiere of DMA associate professor Diego Vega's (Music) ballet Espíritu de Pájaro on November 4 and 5, a work they commissioned to him in 2018. This premiere will take place at Teatro Colón in the city of Bogotá, with choreography by Álvaro Restrepo, and music direction by…

Dr. Jo-Lawrence Martinez Bigcas (Medicine), assistant professor and residency program director of the department of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, recently authored "Indocyanine Green Angiography as the Principal Design and Perfusion Assessment Tool for the Supraclavicular Artery…

Buddha Dawn and Guangming Cheng (both Medicine) wrote an invited commentary in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. In this article titled, “Prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors for cardioprotection: A cautiously optimistic outlook,” Drs. Dawn and Cheng discuss the potential therapeutic benefits of PHD2 inhibition to achieve protection…

Drs. Awad Javaid and Chowdhury Ahsan (both Medicine) recently co-authored a manuscript, "Anterior-Posterior versus anterior-lateral electrodes position for electrical cardioversion of atrial fibrillation: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials," in International Journal of Cardiology Heart and Vasculature. The analysis showed no…