Riana Durrett (Cannabis Policy Institute) joined Nevada Cannabis Association Executive Director Layke Martin for the January 17 episode of KNPR's State of Nevada to discuss the state of the cannabis industry. Durrett and Martin discussed Nevada's illegal cannabis market, pricing and cannabis taxation, and cannabis tourism. To listen to the full…

Dr. Erum Chowdhry (Medicine), was awarded the "Outstanding Resident Award" at the Western Medical Research Conference in Carmel, California. She won the award for her presentation, "Improving the Implementation and Knowledge of the Asthma Action Plan (AAP) During the Well Child Visit." This presentation was developed from a quality improvement…

Marketa Trimble (Law) gave a presentation to the Copyright Section of AIPPI, the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property, on "Cross-Border Issues of AI Ingestion."

The European Court of Auditors issued a special report "Unjustified geo-blocking in e-commerce," in which the Court of Auditors cited Marketa Trimble's (Law) book, "The EU Geo-Blocking Regulation: A Commentary."

Kayla Sullivan, Angela Silvestri-Elmore, and Candace Burton (all Nursing) were awarded a grant by the Josiah Macy Jr Foundation focusing on enhancing clinical education accessibility for nursing students with disabilities. The team will work together with the Disability Resource Center, and University Medical Center to develop a pilot faculty and…

John Rafanan, Nabih Ghani, Sarah Kazemeini, Ahmed Nadeem-Tariq, Ryan Shih, and Thomas A. Vida (all Medicine) published "Modernizing Neuro-Oncology: The Impact of Imaging, Liquid Biopsies, and AI on Diagnosis and Treatment" in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Brain cancer remains one of the most formidable challenges in modern…

Roberto Lovato (English) recently published a feature length article in Alta Journal, "The Scarlet Macaw: Out of Place and at Home in the Desert," which explores how and why the walking, talking flying rainbow of a tropical bird was — and still is — embraced by indigenous peoples living more than 1000 miles from its native habitat.

Juanita K. Hinojosa (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was selected as the recipient of NASPA's Latinx/a/o Knowledge Community 2025 Outstanding Doctoral Student Award. 

Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) authored a study that uses autoethnographic data obtained from the authors to examine cultural (cultural perception of care, sense of familism, care reciprocity, and gendering of care), social (use of technology), and economic factors (role of remittance) and their interactional effects on the health outcomes of older…