Dr. Nate Hollister (Emergency Medicine) and his colleague Scott McDonald (Kinesiology) organized the Circus Meets Medicine conference held at UNLV on March 22, 2024. The conference featured live demonstrations from artists as well as speakers discussing perspectives from elite performers and experts on injury management, biomechanics, and well-…

Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health), Kara Radzak (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), & Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health), presented a paper titled, "A Theory-Based Approach to Explain the Correlates of Safe Physical Activity in Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals," at the 75th Society for Public Health Education (…

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…

John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Science; UNLV Sports Innovation Institute) and Andrew Craig-Jones, a UNLV alum now assistant professor at Augusta University, were the senior and lead author on the paper "The effect of compression garments on biomechanical and physiological factors" in Biomechanics. This paper also was co-authored by James…

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Leigh Ann Richardson (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Alicia Carlos (Dental), Neamat Hassan (Dental), Robin Weltman (Dental), and Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) conducted an interdisciplinary collaborative research published in Nutrients. The publication is titled, "The Associations of…

Associate professor Brach Poston (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and senior academic advisor John Starkey (Business) are the recipients of this year's UNLV Academic Advisor Awards. The UNLV Academic Advisor awards recognize individuals with an exceptional record of advising and supporting students. Their award applications have been forwarded…

Sara Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published, "Interleukin-15 responses to acute and chronic exercise in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis," in the journal Frontiers in Immunology. 

Sara Rosenkranz (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published Effects of treadmill training on myelin proteomic markers and cerebellum morphology in a rat model of cuprizone-induced toxic demyelination in the Journal of Neuroimmunology. 

Richard Rosenkranz and Sara Rosenkranz (both Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences) along with colleagues from Kansas State University recently published "Are lifestyle behaviors associated with excellent self-rated health among American adolescents? A cross-sectional study" in the Journal of Healthy Eating & Active Living. 

John Mercer (Kinesiology & Nutrition Science; UNLV Sports Innovation Institute) and Alina Swafford (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) were the senior and lead authors on the paper "Core temperature while swimming in warm water wearing a triathlon wetsuit" in Science & Sport. This paper also featured UNLV alumni co-authors Boram Lim (…

Sara Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published "Combined versus independent effects of exercise training and intermittent fasting on body composition and cardiometabolic health in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis" in the Nutrition Journal. 

Michael Wong (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), along with Dharini Bhammar (Ohio State Univeristy) recently published their article, "Acute Effects of Albuterol on Ventilatory Capacity in Children with Asthma," in the journal Pediatric Reports.