Nancy Lough (Education) received the Lough Award from the Sport Marketing Association. This new award was given at the 2021 Sport Marketing Association Conference to recognize the work Nancy Lough has put into Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the sport marketing field. 

Erika Marquez (Environmental & Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Childhood Lead Poisoning Associated with Turmeric Spices — Las Vegas, 2019" in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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…

Camille Adajar (Medicine) and Dr. Wolfram Samlowski of the Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada recently published "Cautious addition of targeted therapy to PD-1 inhibitors after initial progression of BRAF mutant metastatic melanoma on checkpoint inhibitor therapy" in the journal BMC Cancer. The article addresses patients with metastatic…

Ruby Nugent, Stephanie Fell, Aidy Weeks, and Rebecca Orozco (Libraries) gave a presentation at the 50th anniversary of the REFORMA Conference VII, titled, “Changing the Narrative: An interdisciplinary approach to recommending changes to the National Library of Medicine’s controlled vocabulary and development of search hedges to improve…

Afsha Bawany (Urban Affairs), Su Kim Chung, Sean Kennedy,Brittani Sterling, and Claytee White (all Libraries), and Jennifer Ream (Journalism and Media Studies), were honored by the Public Relations Society of America's Las Vegas Chapter with a 2021 Pinnacle Award in public service for the “We Need to Talk” educational series.…

Cory Lampert (Libraries) presented "Neon in Nevada: A Blueprint for Collaboration in Nevada" at the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Digital Preservation 2021 conference. The project to document and digitally preserve neon signs in Nevada is a collaboration between UNLV and the University of Nevada, Reno libraries. 

Jacob D. Skousen, Dana L. Bickmore, and Miguel Gonzales (all Educational Psychology and Higher Education), and Maria Banda Roberts (Education) presented their research, "Changing the Face of School Leadership: Diversifying the Principal Pool Through Purposeful Recruiting and Mentoring" at the annual University Council…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) is a co-investigator on the project "Impact of Pre- and Postnatal Chemical Mixture Exposures on Child Neurobehavior and Neuroimaging," which is receiving a five-year grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for $3,187,411. The project will investigate mixtures of more than…

Tirth R. Bhatta (Sociology), Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing), and Neema Langa (Sociology) collaborated with Timothy Goler of Norfolk State University to publish an article in the Journal of Elder Policy titled "Racial Differences in Self-…

Students from the Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences (Integrated Health Sciences) presented at the Southwest American College of Sports Medicine conference in Costa Mesa, California, last month. They were Bryson Carrier , Kyle Cruz , Dustin Davis, Alan Garcia , Macy Helm, Boram Lim, Elias Malek, Javen Miguel, Milan Pantovic, Nicholas Pudar, and…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) was invited as a panelist to share her analytic experience with the use of "Online Photovoice (OPV) in Qualitative Research" at the 3rd International Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Conference, Turkey.  This event was hosted by the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, Turkey chapter, the…