Adjoa Mensah (Online Education) delivered a presentation, “Not Just Surviving, Strategizing: Designing Your PhD for Career Success,” at the COE Holmes Scholars Research and Mentoring Summit focused on strategic career planning during doctoral studies.

Kara Radzak (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences) has received a $964,806 grant from the Department of Defense’s Military Health System Research Program to lead a two-year project aimed at enhancing telehealth-based care for musculoskeletal injuries in military personnel. In collaboration with partners from the Uniformed Services University, A.T…

Tazveen Fariha, Farhana Khandoker, and Jalal Uddin (all Public Health Ph.D. students) coauthored a paper titled, “Awareness, knowledge, and attitude towards basic life support among healthcare professional students in Bangladesh,” in the journal PLOS Global Public Health, along with researchers from Bangladesh. The paper surveyed healthcare…

Assistant professor Araceli Hernandez's (Hospitality) article, "AI-Powered Predictive Modeling for Food-service Crowdfunding Success: An Integrated Approach with Business Intelligence and Supervised Machine Learning for Smart Business Ecosystem" was recently published in the Electronic Markets Journal.  This study investigates the potential…

The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction has selected Simon Gottschalk (Emeritus, Sociology) as the recipient of the George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Accomplishments in Symbolic Interaction. It is presented to a scholar who has made significant contributions to the field of symbolic interactionism and recognizes a scholar's…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article with a doctoral scholar and faculty at Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences titled, “Determinants of childbearing: Behavioral change models and theories: A systematic review,” in the Iranian Journal of Public Health (Impact factor 1.6). In Iran, the…

As part of a class assignment in capstone course BUS 498 taught by Kim Nehls (Dental Medicine), undergraduate business students at UNLV were tasked with reading and reviewing popular nonfiction books in addition to the standard course textbook. This experiential learning “international business book club” activity encouraged critical thinking,…

Dr. Kai-Yu Ho and Dr. Lisa Taylor (Physical Therapy), along with UNLVPT alumna Dr. Katherine Joines, published the article, “Physical Therapy Management for Delayed Diagnosis of Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip: A Case Report," in Case Reports in Pediatrics. The publication highlights the challenges of early detection of developmental dysplasia…

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) delivered an invited presentation, "America Encounters the Absolute," at the European Conference on Pragmatism in St. Gallen, Switzerland.