Nataliyah Tahir, Dai-An Vo-Ba, and Kenneth Izuora (all Medicine) received first place for their case presentation, "Leeching Life Away: A Fatal Intersection of Alternative Medicine, Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome, and Aeromonas hydrophila Endocarditis,” at the Western Endocrine Association's 2026 Annual Meeting.

Matthew Childs, Ph.D., (World Languages and Culture) delivered a talk titled "Race, Colonialism, and Imperialism: Notes from a German Culture Classroom" at the German Studies Association annual conference in Phoenix (September 24–27). Part of a panel about "Controversy and/in the Classroom: Teaching Contentious Topics in the German Language and…

David R. Gruber and Donovan Conley (both Communication Studies) published a co-authored paper titled, "The architecture of anomaly: agential errancy in human-AI relations" in Critical Studies in Communication. The article examines errors arising amid human and AI interaction, theorizing them as “agential errors,” namely, as generative…

Ying Guo (Environmental and Global Health) was awarded a Community Champion Certificate from the national College on Problems of Drug Dependence conference in recognition of her community-based work with the Boys Town Nevada LIFT program. The program seeks to intervene in the lives of students before they suffer mental and behavioral health…

Kaiyu Ho (Physical Therapy) Interim Chair and Associate Professor in the UNLV Department of Physical Therapy, co-authored "The Temporomandibular Joint" chapter in the 6th edition of Current Concepts of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy, published by the APTA Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy, with Sally Ho, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at…

This recent publication represents a collaboration among Hiraku Nagahori (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences); Xan Goodman (University Libraries); Hsiang-Ling Teng, Professor at California State University, Long Beach; and Kai-Yu Ho (Physical Therapy). The study addresses an important gap in musculoskeletal imaging by systematically evaluating the…

Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) served as a featured panelist alongside art historian Natilee Harren and artist Susan Silton at Los Angeles Municipal Gallery's Barnsdall Theatre on Saturday, September 26, for a public conversation exploring vision, voice, and public address in conceptual art. Newbury is also a contributor to the accompanying…

Refat Rasul Srejon (Social and Behavioral Health) was selected as an Emerging Scholar Award recipient at the 16th International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society, held September 10–11, 2026, in Guadalajara, Mexico, in partnership with the University of Guadalajara. The award recognizes a small group of emerging scholars whose work…

Andrew Thomas Reyes and Reimund Serafica (Nursing) recently published a paper in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health titled “Confidence Amid Constraints: Self-Efficacy, Provider Encouragement, Community Engagement, and Structural Barriers Among Filipino Adults from Underserved Communities with Chronic Disease.”…