Jessica Grifaldo (Life Sciences), Erin Cassin (Life Sciences), Dengxun Lai (Life Sciences), Landon Netherton (Life Sciences), Efren Heredia (Chemistry), Ryan Doss (Life Sciences), and Monika Karney (Life Sciences) all won prizes for their oral or poster presentations at the Regional American Society for Microbiology Meeting that was held in the…

Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health) was interviewed by Channel 3 KSNV's ARC Las Vegas to talk about "UNLV, Raiders using sports to boost teen health." Pharr discusses the RUSH program and how it will help boost body image and mental health of teen girls. The next RUSH clinic will be taking place on Friday, April 19 at UNLV…

Arsalan Siddiqui, MD; Ryan Parto, MD; Rodd Rahmani, MD; Chalette Lambert-Swainston, MD; Russel Gollard, MD, (all Medicine) had a clinical vignette presented at National American College of Physicians in Boston - "Spontaneous Regression of Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report." Dr. Siddiqui was the presenting author. Their vignette was an ACP…

Professor Nancy Rapoport (Law) presented for Harvard Law School's Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency Seminar on her new project titled: “Am I My Colleague’s Keeper When It Comes to Disclosing Connections?".

School of medicine student Raul Marquez, internal medicine resident Dr. Taha Shaikh, DO, and internal medicine faculty member Dr. Badrunissa Hanif presented a clinical vignette poster - "A Rare Cutaneous Manifestation of Syphilis in an Immunocompetent Patient" at National American Conference of Physicians (ACP) in Boston. Raul Marquez was the…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) and Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a grant titled, “Reducing Implicit Bias among Emergency Room (ER) Staff” by Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Florida. The grant will develop a training program based on Sharma’s multi-theory model (MTM) of health…

Professor Marketa Trimble (Law) authored an encyclopedia entry on "Geoblocking" for the Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law. 

Dr. Moni Ahmadian, D.M.D and Dr. Jeff Moxley, D.D.S. (both Dental) co-authored and presented an abstract titled, "Mandibular Paresthesia Caused by Unifocal Eosinophilic Granuloma-Like Proliferation in an Adult," as a poster in 2024 annual meeting of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (AAOMP) in Orlando, Florida. …

Kavita Batra (Medicine) with Ravi Batra (Public Health) co-authored a study, "Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality burden of non-COVID-19 lower respiratory infections and etiologies, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021," which was recently published in Lancet. Ravi Batra is a doctoral…