Dr. Jeffrey Cummings (Brain Health), research professor and Director of the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience at UNLV, was presented with a medal from Erik Ramanathan, the U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden, for his lifetime of work in Alzheimer’s research during a ceremony honoring the 10 previous winners of the…

Sharon Jalene (Integrated Health Sciences), associate dean of academic and student affairs and director of the applied health sciences program, spoke with Annette Logan-Parker from Cure 4 The Kids Foundation about the new Applied Health Sciences program and how it is educating health care professionals of the future.

Kenneth Izuora (Medicine), Amalie Alver (Medicine), Arpita Basu (Kinesiology), Kavita Batra (Medicine), Shelley Williams (Dental Medicine) and Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental Medicine) published “The Association of Dietary Micronutrient Intake and Systemic Inflammation among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Study” in the journal…

Warren O. Forbes (Ph.D. 2023, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences - CSU San Bernardino) and Janet S. Dufek (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently published a paper titled, "The Influence of Induced Head Acceleration on Lower-Extremity Biomechanics during a Cutting Task," in the Biomedical Section of the journal Sensors. This paper examined…

Merrill Landers (Physical Therapy), chair of the department, was presented with the SPAHP Alumni Merit Award from Creighton University's Department of Physical Therapy. Landers, who graduated from the program in 1997, was recognized for his exceptional leadership in the profession and his service to his Las Vegas community, exemplifying the Jesuit…

Krishnakumar Nangeelil, Haven Searcy, and Zaijing Sun (all Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences), along with Beverly Parker from the Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP) at the Desert Research Institute, published an article titled, “Assessing Radiation Fallout in Public Zones near the Nevada National…

In the journal Preventive Medicine Reports, professor Richard Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently co-authored a study: "Demographic correlates of weight-loss strategies in US adults: Cross-sectional analysis of NHANES data 2017–2020."

Faculty and students from the Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences department recently published a paper in the Human Physiology in Exercise, Health and Sports Performance special issue of the journal Sports, titled, "Validity and Reliability of Wearable Technology Devices during Simulated Pickleball Game Play." Merging two popular topics in…

As part of an international panel of experts in physical activity promotion, associate professor Sara Rosenkranz and professor Richard Rosenkranz (both in Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently published an article, "Development and evaluation of the Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation to deliver Physical Activity in School Scale (…

Richard Rosenkranz (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published Improving physical activity and screen time in Australian Outside School Hours Care: Study protocol in the journal Pediatric Research. 

Neda Akhavan (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published Personalized Nutrition: Tailoring Dietary Recommendations through Genetic Insights in the journal Nutrients. 

Associate professor Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) received a three-year, $280,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his upcoming project titled, "Developing Quasi Absolute Method (QAM) and 3-D Isotopic Imaging with Neutron Activation."