Education & Outreach coordinator Jackie Gaetos (The Care Center) recently co-authored a published article in collaboration with Zida Wang and Deanne Sole (both Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art). Their article, published in the Journal of Museum Education, is called "Designing Care Centered Museum Education: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration of…

UNLV's International Gaming Institute (IGI) hosted the 19th International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking May 26-28, 2026, at Bellagio. This triennial event is the world’s largest research conference in the gambling field and welcomed over 500 attendees from 26 countries, comprised of academics and researchers, industry…

Trent W. Dawson, Marcedes Butler, and Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner (Education) published "What counts as competent teaching? A systematic narrative synthesis of teacher competencies in K–12 education" in Teaching and Teacher Education, 181, 105684. This review systematically synthesizes the teacher competency literature to examine which competencies…

Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with colleagues from University of Oklahoma - Tulsa and The University of Delaware, published "State policy predictors of child care centers’ utilization of subsidies for children from underserved groups" in Children and Youth Services Review.  This study identified…

Ph.D. student Ammrito Roy, a Ph.D. student (English) presented his paper, “Land, Story, and Community in Kanthapura: A Comparative Reading Through Critical Indigenous Theory,” at the 10th Annual Global Souths Conference. The paper applies Comparative Indigenous Theory to Raja Rao’s novel Kanthapura to examine how land, oral storytelling, communal…

Dan Wright (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and  Higher Education), along with several international colleagues, published an article in Journal of Affective Disorders on mothers' birth-related PTSD symptoms, based on data from 31 countries. This is part of ongoing multicultural birth-related mental health research . 

Neda Akhavan (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published "Prune Consumption and Bone Health in Older Men: A One-Year Randomized Controlled Trial" in the journal Nutrients. 

Larissa McNeil and Allison McNickle (Surgery) along with Jayme Ching and Yvonne Ramos (collaborators from University Medical Center) published a study "A Retrospective Evaluation of Psychiatric Recommendations Using the Injured Trauma Survivor Screen" in The American Surgeon.  This study evaluated mental health screening practices in trauma…

Jen Culley (Libraries) has been selected as the 2026 James S. McPhee Librarian of the Year at UNLV.  Culley was recognized for her leadership, efficiency, and innovation within the Acquisitions unit of the University Libraries. She led a major workflow review that brought the work of two units into one more cohesive operation, improving…