Hal Berghel, (Computer Science) has published an article, "The Online Disinformation Opera" in the December issue of IEEE Computer. This article looks at how the Internet and social media feed disinformation and fake news to nonreality-based communities.   

Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) and Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave recruitment presentations and answered questions about corresponding nuclear-related programs at the ANS Virtual Graduate School Fair last week. UNLV is the only university that has two recruitment sessions (Nuclear Engineering and Health…

Mingon Kang and Euiseong Ko (both Computer Science) are the first and co-author on a new journal paper, "A Roadmap for Multi-Omics Data Integration using Deep Learning," in Briefings in Bioinformatics. The publication is achieved by the research collaboration with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. The paper reviews deep learning-based…

Mingon Kang (Computer Science), Ji Yoo (Medicine), and Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) have been awarded a grant of $245,000 from the Minority Research Grant Program of Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The research team will use novel computational and clinical strategies, including a deep learning-based risk score…

Charlotta E. Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) and co-author Mark Sanders have published their manuscript "A world's dilemma ‘upon which the sun never sets’:  The nuclear waste management strategy (part III): Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and Romania in the journal Progress in Nuclear Energy." The article is the third part…

Hal Berghel (Electrical and Computer Engineering) was named a life fellow of The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers effective Jan. 1.

UNLV's Team Las Vegas will be honored Nov. 9 by the Nevada Conservation League with the Green Guardian Award for their strides in renewable energy during the U.S. Department of Energy's international Solar Decathlon sustainable homebuilding competition. The award recognizes those dedicated to increasing access to a…

Jeremy Cho (Mechanical Engineering), along with doctoral students Yiwei Gao and Negin Garakani, and undergraduate Nicholas K. K. Chai, authored a paper published in Soft Matter with Sujit S. Datta of Princeton University. The paper is titled "Scaling laws to predict humidity-induced swelling and stiffness in…

Hal Berghe (Computer Science) published an article, "A Collapsing Academy, Part II: How Cancel Culture Works on the Academy," in the October 2021 issue of IEEE Computer.

Christian Ison, Janet Dufek (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Mohamed Trabia (Mechanical Engineering) published a paper, "Use of Pressure-Measuring Insoles to Characterize Gait Parameters in Simulated Reduced Gravity Conditions" in the journal Sensors. Ison is a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary health sciences…

Mingon Kang (Computer Science), Ji Yoo (Medicine), Brendan Morris (Electronic and Computer Engineering), Zhaohuam Zhu (Physics and Astronomy), Qiang Zhu (Physics and Astronomy), Mira Han (Life Sciences), Kazem Taghva (Computer Science), and Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) were awarded National Science…

Zakai Olsen (Mechanical Engineering) just had the paper titled "A hyperelastic porous media framework for ionic polymer-metal composite actuators and sensors: thermodynamically consistent formulation and nondimensionalization of the field equations" published in Smart Material and Structures journal.  Olsen just completed his PhD…