Nataliyah Tahir, Sophie Ahmad, Kavita Batra, Ashok Gupta and Kenneth E Izuora (all Medicine) published an abstract "Assessing The Relationship Between Oral Health And Bone Disease Among Post-menopausal Women" in Journal of the Endocrine Society. Tahir and Ahmed are medical students. 
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) conducted an interview with noted computer security authority Bruce Schneier that will appear in the November issue of IEEE Computer. This interview focuses primarily on the issue of computer and networking security as it applies to artificial intelligence.
Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with her GBD 2021 Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Collaborators published a study "Global, regional, and national burden of pulmonary arterial hypertension, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021," in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine. Batra serves as the Senior Collaborator…
Iesha Jackson (Teaching and Learning) and Doris Watson (Educational Psychology, Leadership and Higher Education) participated in a panel discussion with colleagues Claytee White (Oral History Research Center) and Norma Marrun (Teaching and Learning) and former students Kenneth Brown II, Laurents Banuelos-Benitez, and Marbella Alfonso, all who…
Acute care surgery fellow Dr. David Velez (Medicine) was recognized with an Innovation in Education Award by the Society of Critical Care Program Directors Society for his web-based Educational Review Resource for Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery. Dr. Velez created the Operative Review of Surgery website which provides a free…
Yoohwan Kim, Juyeon Jo, Mehdi Abid (all Computer Science), and UNLV Cyber Clinic members Bianca Ionescu, Christian Rodriguez, and Arturo Roman (all Information Systems), were invited to attend the 2024 National Cybersecurity Education Colloquium (NCEC) and present on the UNLV Cybersecurity Clinic. The main goal of the event, which took place…
David G. Schwartz (Ombuds Office) recently published a post, "The Helping Hand That Doesn’t," on Informed Informality, his blog that considers people, organizations, conflict, and culture, among other things. The post explores how attempts to motivate or coach sometimes founder due to poorly-conceived communications.  For more information…
In collaboration with the Nevada Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (NVASLA), Jacel Zeres Avila and Jung-Hwa Kim (both Architecture) received recognition in the 15th Annual Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) Challenge. Their submission, focused on Cochran Ditch in Reno, NV, earned second place and will be added to the…
John M. Bowers (English) has published, with his former doctoral student Peter Steffensen, his book "Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959" with Oxford University Press. It is currently available on Amazon UK and will be available in January 2025 in the USA.  

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