Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) accepted an appointment by the American Association of Public Health Dentistry to serve as its representative on the American Dental Association's new Specialty Engagement Task Force. Members of the task force will focus on resetting and strengthening the ADA’s relationship with specialty organizations, and…

Nachman Gutowski's (Law) new article, "Silver State, Gold Standard: The (New) Nevada Bar," has been accepted for publication with the Duquesne Law Review. 

Director Riana Durrett, Research Director Marla Royne Stafford, legal extern and former William S. Boyd School of Law student Juliana Ness, graduate assistant and UNLV student Jordyn Sanders (all Cannabis Policy Institute), and attorney Maggie McLetchie have published an in-depth examination of cannabis and gaming in the Journal of Cannabis…

Hospitality Ph.D. alumnus Dongwon Yun '25 was awarded the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (JHTM) Best Paper Award for his paper with UNLV Hospitality College faculty coauthors, Renata Guzzo and Cass Shum. Their paper on hiring managers’ evaluations of gender-nonconforming applicants found that gender-nonconforming…

Jeffrey Cumming (Brain Health) was the senior author of an article recently published in Lancet Neurology. It is a summary report from a stakeholder meeting to develop a road map for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease. Participants included scientists, clinicians, regulators, and economists. The plan builds on recently approved treatments for…

Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article in the March 2026 issue of IEEE Computer entitled "From Trolls to Edgelords: The Use of Social Media to Support Extreme Ideology" that focuses on sinister, anti-social use of social media platforms to support extremism. Summary data provided by federal law enforcement agencies, the…

Colwin Yee, Hassan Ziada, and Neamat Hassan (all Dental) have published a new peer-reviewed article in Dentistry Journal titled “Effects of At-Home Bleaching on Color Stability and Surface Roughness of Single-Shade, ORMOCER-Based, and Conventional Resin Composites.” The study evaluates how at-home bleaching protocols affect the optical and surface…

Jenna Heath, Ana Patrnogich-Arieli (both Liberal Arts), and Joseph Ervin (Academic Success Center) presented ""High-Impact Practices for a First-Year Seminar Built on College (and Life) Purpose" at the National Conference for National Organization on Student Success in New York City.  

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) participated in an "author meets critics" panel on her book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics at the 2026 American Philosophical Association Central Division meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Her commentators included José Jorge Mendoza from University of Washington, Allison Wolf from Universidad de los Andes,…