Neda Akhavan (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published ​"Daily Mango Intake Improves Glycemic and Body Composition Outcomes in Adults with Prediabetes: A Randomized Controlled Study" in the journal Foods. 

Brian Schilling (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) has been awarded $510,000 of funding through a subcontract on a U.S. Department of Defense Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II grant. The project, “Optimizing Remote Pre-Accession Training for Air Force Special Operations Forces Using BridgeAthletic with Garmin Integration,”…

Neda Akhavan (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published "The Comparative Effects of White Potato and White Rice Consumption on Measures of Cardiometabolic Health in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Features of Metabolic Syndrome" in the journal Current Developments in Nutrition. 

Rui Fang (Medical Physics, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences), Yu Kuang (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences), and their collaborators received the Best in Physics Award (Therapy Category) at the 67th American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Annual Meeting & Exhibition. The Best in Physics Award (Therapy Category…

UNLV undergraduates from Jingchun Chen’s Lab Lead Alzheimer’s Research published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Two undergraduate researchers from Jingchun Chen’s lab at the Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine (NIPM), Tyrell Pratt (School of Integrated Health Sciences) and Alice Lee (School of Life Sciences), have achieved…

A research team from five universities, including UNLV's Dustin W. Davis (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), has published “Editorial Policies on Artificial Intelligence in Sport Science: Balancing Innovation and Ethical Standards” in Kinesiology Review (Impact Factor: 1.7). The study examined how sport-science journals are…

Richard Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published "Twenty years of behavioral nutrition - A reflection on the road less travelled" in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.

Accelerated BS-MS student Olivia Perez (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) has published her first article in Sports (Impact Factor 2.9), titled, "Binary Sex Input Has No Effect on Metabolic or Pulmonary Variables: A Within-Subjects Observational Study." Mentored by Drs. Michael Wong, Dustin Davis, and James Navalta (Kinesiology and…

Neda Akhavan (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), Sara Rosenkranz (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), Richard Rosenkranz (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), Amber Wood (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences Graduate Student), Jason Flatt (Social & Behavioral Health), along with colleagues from University of Bayreuth and Florida State…

Neda Akhavan (Kinesiology and Nutritional Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published "Effect of green tea supplementation on blood pressure in adults: a GRADE-assessed systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials" in the journal Blood Pressure. 

James W. Navalta (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) coauthored an original research article titled, “Does digital device software lead to exclusion? Investigating a portable metabolic analysis system and the input of sex data on physiological parameters,” published in Frontiers in Digital Health (Impact Factor 3.2) as part of the “Digital Health…

Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health), Kara Radzak (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health and Department of Internal Medicine), published a paper titled, "A Theory-Based Approach to Explain the Correlates of Safe Physical Activity in Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals," in the Journal of Health and…