Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was invited to discuss the experiences of African Americans in the Historic Westside based upon the documentary entitled, "Across the Tracks: A Las Vegas Westside Story." The event was organized by "Leadership Las Vegas" and took place at the new West Las Vegas Library on Jan. 29.

The UNLV Writing Center is pleased to highlight the accomplishments of its staff members. Madison Browne, a current consultant, acts on the Editorial Board of The Peer Review (TPR), a publication of the International Writing Centers Association, serving as its Web Editor. Delight Ejiaka, a former consultant, recently authored "…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) has been selected to serve as an Associate Editor for Annals of Epidemiology. Annals of Epidemiology is a leading peer-reviewed journal devoted to epidemiologic research and methodological development. The journal emphasizes the application of epidemiologic methods to issues influencing the distribution and…

Dave Beisecker's (Philosophy) article, "America Encounters the Absolute" has been published in the latest issue of Pragmatism Today. The article traces the emergence of American pragmatist philosophy out of revolutionary German Idealism.

Claudia Keelan (English) is featured in a Desert Companion podcast, which explores ideas of the poetic imagination that she has developed in her decades at UNLV.. 

Mark Lenker (Libraries) was interviewed by Hopkins Press about his article "Thoughts on synthesizing information: A research skill for our time." The article was published in Summer 2025 issue of the journal portal: Libraries and the Academy.  

Monica Millard, Du Feng, Rebecca Benfield, Clariana Ramos de Oliveira (all Nursing), and Joseph Morgan (Department of Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article, "A comparative analysis of the impact of virtual patients versus high-fidelity manikin-based blended simulation on nursing students’ self-evaluation of…

Louis Dumontet and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) have published a research article titled, “Trustworthy prediction of enzyme commission numbers using a hierarchical interpretable transformer" in Nature Communications. This study introduces a cutting-edge AI model that predicts enzyme functions from protein sequences and offers…

Deborah Kuhls, Kavita Batra, Bertille Mavegam Tango Assoumou, William Porter, Darin Mains (all Medicine), Courtney Coughenour, Maxim Gakh (both Public Health), and William Sousa (Criminal Justice) presented a session titled "Solving Complex Problems through Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Lessons from UNLV's Statistical Transparency of Policing (…