Tyler D. Parry, associate professor and chair, (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave a lecture for the Desert Oasis Black Student Union's "Lyceum Series," a collection of events organized by high school students for Black History Month. He presented research on the formation of Las Vegas's Historic Westside neighborhood, the…

Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine), chief of hematology and former dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, had his essay, "When a Medical School Dean Resigns," published in Academic Medicine, a journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). In the essay, Kahn writes that the average U.S. medical school dean tenure is only 4.3…

Mehmet Erdem (Hospitality) was promoted to the role of senior associate dditor for the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology. Previously, Erdem held the roles of assistant and associate editor, respectively. Since publishing its first issue in 2010, JHTT is ranked 5th among all SSCI-indexed journals in the hospitality field, and…

Dale Melgaard (Film) has received an "Official Selection" for the screenplay, The Phatman, at the Indo Dubai Film Festival.

 Alain Bengochea, Gloria Carcoba Falomir, Suheyla Sarisahin, Tracey West, and Xin Zhang (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published "Toward a translanguaging-as-resource orientation: elementary and secondary teachers’ shifting beliefs and practices in English-medium settings" in the International Journal of Bilingual…

Alexandra Nur (Criminal Justice) and her colleagues Holly Nguyen and Brandy Parker from the Department of Sociology & Criminology at Pennsylvania State University recently published an article in Social Science Research  titled, "Criminal legal contact, labor market insecurity and labor market participation." In this article, the authors…

The Cannabis Policy Institute and William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, including Director Riana Durrett (UNLV Cannabis Policy Institute), were proud to welcome national cannabis law figure, Robert Mikos to the school as a visiting scholar on February 9. Mikos, whose research interests include federalism, constitutional law, drug law and policy…

Kati McNamara (Social Work) and Susie Skarl (Libraries) co-authored an article titled "Transgender service in the U.S. military: A scoping review" in the International Journal of Transgender Health. The review mapped and synthesized research findings from 58 articles on transgender service, including demographics, gender-affirming healthcare…

Stewart Chang's (Law) article, A Right to be Born?: What Dobbs Could Mean for Artificial Reproductive Technologies, was published in the University of Baltimore Law Review.