Kasra Ghaharian and Mana Azizsoltani (International Gaming Institute) attended the bi-annual conference for the European Association for the Study of Gambling (EASG). Ghaharian presented on the importance of AI ethics and governed for the gambling sector. Azizsoltani presented his research on the robustness of the most utilized screening…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with GBD 2021 Upper Respiratory Infections Otitis Media Collaborators, published a study "Global, regional, and national burden of upper respiratory infections and otitis media, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021," in the Lancet Infectious Diseases. This study reported the…

Ryan Grinnell (Medicine) presented a poster, "Growing Pains: Expanding on the BIG Criteria to Include Minor Fractures," at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Annual Meeting in Las Vegas on behalf of his coauthors Dr. Matt Perryman and Dr. Allison McNickle (both Medicine). This project evaluated whether…

Ozioma Nwosu (Nursing) published an article in the Journal of Mental Health and Clinical Psychology titled, "Mood Disorders and Rapid Screening: A Brief Review." The article explores the differences between mood disorders to help increase diagnostic accuracy with the opportunity to provide treatment that may lead to improved patient outcomes.…

Ung-Sang Lee (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), along with his co-authors, have published a book chapter titled, "Co-constructing social change: Opportunities and considerations in community and policy-based research-practice partnerships," in Advancing Qualitative Inquiry Toward Methodological Inclusion (Eds Rhodesia…

Kelly Tseng and students Belen Gutierrez, Jose Guerra, Iris Nava, and Ashley Fitzpatrick (Life Sciences), in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of researchers from University of Colorado Boulder and Western Michigan University published an article titled, "Construction of a Static Magnetic Field Exposure Apparatus for Aqueous Model…

William Brown, Caitlin Saladino, and David Damore (all from Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute) co-authored a piece titled, "County needs a stand-alone children’s hospital," which was published in the Las Vegas Sun. The piece recaps an recent community forum that detailed the health and economic benefits of a stand-alone children’s…

Art Gelis (Radiochemistry) and collaborators from University of Illinois, Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory recently published an article titled, "X-ray Induced Cycling of Rare-Earth Elements between Bulk and Interfacial Liquid," in the journal ACS Applied Material & Interfaces. The research performed at UNLV was supported by the Nuclear…

Chad Cross and Brian Labus (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics) were interviewed for an article on "Two deaths linked to spreading 'sloth virus'" published on MDLinx. Cases of Oropouche virus, also known as 'sloth fever,' are on the rise. Discovered in 1955 in Trinidad and Tobago, the virus has made its way around the globe. In the article, Labus…