Kavita Batra (Medicine) was recently invited to serve as a Topical Advisory Panel member with the Vaccines journal. 

Jungnam Kim (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published the manuscript “Hidden behind the model minority stereotype: Exploring disparities and the role of parent empowerment in Asian students’ college enrollment” in the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. She worked alongside school counselor educators (…

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology) published a post about the mental health crisis among youth titled "Preserving the Health and Safety of U.S. Children" on the Population Reference Bureau website.

Jennifer Pharr (Environmental & Occupational Health), Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Max Gakh (Environmental & Occupational Health), Jason Flatt and Krystal Kittle (both Social & Behavioral Health), and Emylia Terry (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article on "Serial Mediation Analysis of the…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's Ombuds Office.  The post is about the numerous programs, workshops, and seminars that the office is presenting this semester.

Louisa Messenger (Environmental & Occupational Health) is a co-author of the article, "High-throughput barcoding method for the genetic surveillance of insecticide resistance and species identification in Anopheles gambiae complex malaria vectors", in the journal Scientific Reports. Genetic barcoding of mosquitoes is a useful tool to assist…

UNLV Student Nurses Association (SNA) was named a finalist in the 2022 Governor's Point of Light Awards. The campaign annually recognizes individuals and organizations for their excellence in volunteerism throughout Nevada. UNLV SNA was named a finalist in the Nonprofit/Community Organization Volunteer Program. They will be officially…

Pricella Morris (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) has been awarded the 2022 DEC J. David Sexton Doctoral Student Award from the Council of Exceptional Children's Division for Early Childhood. This international award is given to a doctoral student who has made contributions to young children with disabilities and their…

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) was awarded a pilot grant through the Texas Resource Center on Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) for a project titled "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use Among U.S. Older Adults, 2015-2019." The project is a secondary data analysis of publicly available nationally…