Hikmet Loe (Art) was interviewed and quoted in the article, "Michael Heizer began ‘City’ 50 years ago. Does it hold up today?," by reporter Savannah Strott. The article presents a myriad of responses to Nevada's newly accessible earthwork, City. The article was cross-published in The Nevada Independent (Sept. 1) and in High Country News, titled "…
Dean Leah Chan Grinvald (Law) was elected as a Member-at-Large for three years to the American Bar Association's Section Council for the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. 
Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), along with colleagues, published an article tited, "Latent profiles of perceived discrimination, bicultural stress, and negative context of reception and associations with mental health in a sample of Hispanic and Somali adolescents" in the journal Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology…
Christopher J. Fang (Medicine) gave a research poster presentation at Clinical Orthopaedic Society’s 112th annual meeting. 
Keith Lawler and Craig Schwartz (both Nevada Extreme Conditions Laboratory) have been awarded a four-year, $999,305 grant from the Department of Energy Building EPSCoR-State/National Laboratory Partnerships program for their project "Probing Perovskite Chirality with the Orbital Angular Momentum of X-rays." This project seeks to exploit recent…
UNLV School of Public Health has secured a State of Nevada, Division of Public and Behavioral Health (DPBH) grant under, “American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Nevada Health Workforce Pipeline Grant” that will award $1,500 scholarships to undergraduate and graduate public health students working on experiential learning projects and intending to work in…
Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (Psychology) was awarded the 2023 Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research and the 2024 Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution to Service from the Asian American Psychological Association. The two awards recognize Wong-Padoongpatt's distinguished research and service contributions to the…
Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was interviewed for an article on "How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs," published on Sleepopolis. In the article, Cross explains what bed bugs are, where they hide, how to check for them, and how to get rid of the bed bugs.
Andy Kirk (History; Reid Public History Institute) presented his paper, "Bringing the Theory & Method of Environmental History to the Practice of Cultural Resource Management — Researching The California Surfing History Multiple Property Documentation," at the World Congress of Environmental History at Oulu University in Oulu Finland. The…

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