Sara Hunt (Medicine), Ph.D., associate professor and assistant dean of behavioral health sciences at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and executive director of BeHERE NV, received an honorable mention for Faculty/Staff Outreach for the UNLV 2024 Community Engagement Awards. Hunt has been instrumental in launching BeHERE NV, which is…
Published: James W. Navalta, Graham R. McGinnis, Elias M. Malek
James W. Navalta, Graham R. McGinnis, and a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences program Elias M. Malek (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) published a paper titled, "Exercise in a natural environment increases program compliance in people with chronic migraine: A pilot cross-over randomized trial," in the Journal of…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Katharine Major (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) gave several oral presentations during the American Mosquito Control Association 90th Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas from March 4-8:
"Development of environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling for arbovirus vector surveillance in southern Nevada…
Published: Eric Kawana, Kenny Do, Jenifer Do, Vladislav P. Zhitny
Eric Kawana, Kenny Do, Jenifer Do (all Medicine) and Vladislav P. Zhitny, alum, published "The Origins and Development of Pre-emptive Dermatologic Anesthesia: A Systematic Review" in Cureus.
The study delves into the historical trajectory of dermatological anesthesia, tracing its roots from ancient civilizations to modern times. It…
Professor Michael Kagan's (Law) latest article, "A Faster Way to Yes," will be published in the Georgetown Law Journal. The article proposes ways to streamline asylum adjudication without structurally biasing the asylum system toward rejection of asylum applications.
Professor Patience Crowder (Law) was part of a panel discussion, "Brown v. Board of Education: 70 Years Later - Lessons Learned" at the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse.
Professor Michael Kagan (Law), who teaches administrative law at UNLV, presented about the major question doctrine at the Ninth Circuit Chief District Court Judges' Conference in Phoenix.
On Thursday, March 7, as part of a panel presentation, Professor Jeff Stempel (Law) spoke on A New Focus on the War Exclusion: The Insurance Industry Confronts the Issue of "State-Sponsored" Cyber Incidents at the American Bar Association Litigation Section 2024 Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar in Tucson, Arizona.
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “The effects of L-carnitine supplementation on inflammation, oxidative stress, and clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with sepsis: A randomized, double-blind, controlled trial” in the Nutrition Journal (Impact factor 5.4) in collaboration with coauthors…
The equestrian is one of the newest members of the Human Resources team, bringing her leadership development and organizational design mastery to UNLV, one team-building interaction at a time.