Christina Miskey (Libraries) recently received the Graduate College Distinguished Service Medallion from the Graduate College in recognition for her contributions to educating and supporting the Graduate College, Grad Academy, and its students. She was recognized at the recent Inspiration, Innovation, Impact event at the annual GPSA…

Genevieve Milliken (Libraries) was part of a national Data Management Plan Tool (DMPTool) working group that created the newly released template aligned with updated National Institutes of Health Data Management and Sharing Plan (DMSP) requirements, which will be required for proposals due on or after May 25, 2026. She helped revise the…

Kathryn Houk (Libraries; Medicine) earned the Health Literacy Specialist Certificate from the Institute for Healthcare Advancement. The certificate is an accredited, 7-course educational credential program that equips professionals with essential health literacy principles and practices to improve understanding of complex health information and…

Mark Lenker (Libraries) was a keynote panelist at Heterodox Libraries 2026 Symposium on Human Authorship. The focus of the panel was the question: "How do we know (well)?" In the discussion, Mark shared ideas from his recent book The Human Relationship with Information (Routledge). The organizers posted a preview of the panel…

Amanda Koziura (Libraries) is a co-author of "The Illusion of Opportunity: Reimbursement Policies and the Academic Librarian" published in portal: Libraries and the Academy.

Amanda Koziura (Libraries) has been selected as the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Member of the Week for the week of March 23, 2026. Koziura is the head of Scholarly Communication and Data Services in the Libraries. 

Competing against teams from organizations across the Las Vegas Valley, UNLV’s Trivia Team earned a third-place medal as part of the 2026 City of Las Vegas Corporate Challenge on March 14. Team members included co-captain Amy Stone (Medicine), GK Nwosu (Academic Effectiveness), Katherine Manifold (Libraries), Jeremy Bart-Plange (Facilities), Beth…

Brittani Sterling (Libraries) gave the invited presentation, "You Can Stand under My Umbrella: Information Weathering in the Age of AI," at the inaugural Black Information Futures conference hosted by the University of Washington's Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives.

Richard Saladino and Greg Voelker (both Libraries) recently presented "Using Data Visualization for Facilitating Interactive Collection Management Analysis with Subject Stakeholders" at the 2026 Electronic Resources & Libraries Fest conference. 

Mina Attin (Nursing), Bryer Shareef (Computer Science), Xan Goodman (University Libraries), and Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with their student researchers, have published “Predicting In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Using Machine Learning Models: A Scoping Review” in Artificial Intelligence in Emergency Medicine. The study highlights the growing…

Brittani Sterling (University Libraries), Brittany Fiedler (University Libraries), and Christopher Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) co-organized UNLV's third annual "Douglass Day Transcribathon," which celebrates the birthday of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass and explores the important legacy he left upon the United…

Kati McNamara (Social Work) and Susie Skarl (Libraries) co-authored an article titled "Transgender service in the U.S. military: A scoping review" in the International Journal of Transgender Health. The review mapped and synthesized research findings from 58 articles on transgender service, including demographics, gender-affirming healthcare…