Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (Dental) earned diplomate status from the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine (ABDSM), which designates her as having the technical skill, in-­depth knowledge, and professional judgment in providing oral appliance therapy to treat snoring and obstructive sleep apnea. The ABDSM credential is widely recognized as the gold…

Dr. Marcia Ditmyer (Dental) co-authored two articles: “American College of Rheumatology Workforce Study and Demand Projections of Pediatric Rheumatology Workforce, 2015-2030,” which appeared ahead of print in Arthritis Care & Research; and “Modeling the Hepatology Workforce in the United States: A Predicted Critical Shortage,” which appeared…

Russell Argenal (Student Wellness) presented the poster presentation “Exploring Health Risk Behaviors among Asian and Pacific Islander Sexual and Gender Minorities" at the virtual American Public Health Association 2020 Annual Meeting and Expo. This work was co-authored by Dr. Jason Flatt and Dr. Francisco Sy (both Environmental and…

Aldo Barrita, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt, Marvin Fuentes, and Lianelys Cabrera-Martinez (all Psychology) presented a poster summarizing a systematic review of the literature on microaggressions impacting Latinx communities at the 2020 conference for the National Latinx Psychological Association.

Dr. Neamat Hassan and Dr. Hassan Ziada (both Dental) co-authored "The Impact of Impression Coping Geometrical Design on Accuracy of Implant Impressions: An Experimental Study," which appeared this month in the International Journal of Implant Dentistry. The study evaluated the effect of implant impression coping geometrical designs on the accuracy…

Sol Martinez (Music) was featured in a National Urban Indian Family Coalition national campaign ad urging Indigenous people to vote. A sophomore, she is a member of the UNLV Native American Student Association and has roots in several Indigenous groups: Las Vegas Paiute, Moapa Paiute, Cheyenne, Pawnee, Creek, as well as Durango, Mexico.

Melva Thompson-Robinson, Johanna E. Andrews, Tristesse Burton (all Center for Health Disparities Research) and Kristina Ricker-Boles (Public Health), along with colleagues at other institutions, have a book chapter published in Researching in the Age of COVID-19, Volume III: Creativity and Ethics. This book explores dimensions of…

John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) gave a keynote presentation as part of the virtual Norseman Endurance Science Seminar 2020. The title of the presentation was "Swimming in Warm Water: The Consequences of Wearing a Wetsuit." Norseman is an iconic extreme triathlon and the purpose of this seminar was to share research on endurance…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published the co-authored article "Influencing Overseas Chinese by Tweets: Text-images as the Key Tactic of Chinese Propaganda" in the Journal of Computational Social Science. The article traced and analyzed thousands of tweets with #USAVirus hashtag and Twitter's decisions to suspend the accounts. The…