On July 18, Pitch Mayhem, the premier pitch tournament designed to elevate Las Vegas as a leading tech destination, successfully took place at UNLV's Black Fire Innovation. The event brought together the brightest minds in technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurship, marking a significant milestone in the city's journey to becoming a tech…

For the second year in a row, professor Seyhmus Baloglu has been recognized as one of the top 2% of Sports, Leisure, and Tourism Scholars in the world based on Scopus data provided by Elsevier. Now in its sixth iteration, this prestigious list identifies the world's leading researchers, representing approximately 2% of all scientists…

An-Pyng Sun (Social Work), together with Tracy Liu and Avi Ramprashad (both from University of Maryland, School of Medicine), wrote an article, "Methamphetamine-Associated Psychosis: Its Nature and Management," which appeared in the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Specialty Practice Section 2024 Fall…

Nachman Gutowski (Law) co-authored a new white paper entitled, "Breaking the Cycle: Rethinking Bar Exam Scoring and Portability for NextGen Examinees."

Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) presented "Over the Horizon," drawn from her research on art and security space, at the 2024 Spatial Humanities conference at Otto-Freidrichs-Universität Bamberg (Germany). Spatial Humanities is concerned with geospatial technologies' contribution to humanities research. The main aim is to explore and demonstrate the…

A peer reviewed manuscript by authors professor Frederic Poineau (Radiochemistry) and Ph.D. candidate Harry Jang has been accepted for publication by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The article titled, "Revealing Uranium Tetrafluoride Microrods," represents the first time uranium tetrafluoride microrods were prepared by chemical…

Co-authors Jungsun (Sunny) Kim, Mehmet Erdem, and Boran Kim, Ph.D. '24, (both Hospitality) recently had their article, "What factors motivate customers to embrace a metaverse hotel?," published in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. Their paper aims to investigate the influence of four motivational…

Barbara Lewis (Public Health) presented her research virtually at the World Congress on Pediatrics & Neonatology in Barcelona, Spain, on "Pediatric Family Advisory Councils: Focus Groups that are Improving Pediatric Care." 

Hannah Fraley (Nursing) delivered a podium presentation titled "Youth Trafficking Research Updates: Understanding Trafficking of School-Aged Youth and High Risk Special Youth Populations" at the Academy of Forensic Nursing Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 18.