Dr. Karl Kingsley and Dr. Melissa Kornhaber (both Dental) presented their work, "Assessment of the Changes in Prevalence of Ora Human Papillomavirus in Pediatric Patients within a Multi-ethnic Pediatric Clinic Population," in a virtual presentation to the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases last month. 

Sanae El Ibrahimi (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and other colleagues from Comagine Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy recently published an article,"Prescription and Prescriber Specialty Characteristics of Initial Opioid Prescriptions Associated with Chronic Use" at the Journal of…

Ashley Hairston Doughty (Art) facilitated a workshop during the ArtPlace Virtual Summit 2020 called “Applying Creative Placemaking to COVID-19” last month. The workshop, co-facilitated with Jen Krava of Forecast and artist Mark Salinas, centered Smart Growth America’s Arts & Transportation Rapid Response, which matches artists with…

Susan M. McLennon and Nirmala Lekhak (both Nursing) presented a virtual poster, "A World Upside Down: Caregiving During COVID-19," at the National Hartford Center for Gerontological Nursing Annual Leadership Conference last month.

Susanna Newbury (Art) has been elected vice chair of the Nevada Humanities Council, the Nevada affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities that supports humanities-based educational and cultural programs that articulate the Nevada experience, feature local culture and heritage, and facilitate the investigation of ideas that matter to…

Drs. Nathan E. Kirsch, Matthew Warren, and Rajany Dy (all Medicine) recently presented their project at the American College of Chest Physicians meeting. The abstract, “The Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) as a Predictor of Unanticipated ICU Admission at the time of Rapid Response” was published in CHEST Journal. The study's aim was to…

Mary Whitehead (Student Diversity and Social Justice) facilitated a virtual discussion-based workshop this month at Arizona State University - Barrett, The Honors College, which focused on teaching college student how to identify and navigate microaggressions on campus. 

Katherine E. Marçal (Social Work) published an article, "Understanding Mechanisms Driving Family Homeless Shelter Use and Child Mental Health," in Journal of Social Service Research. This community-based system dynamics study explored barriers to timely, successful shelter exit and feedback mechanisms driving length of stay and child…

Olivia Cheche (Political Science, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute) recently had her OpEd, "NSHE, Regents Don’t Deserve Credit for Our Accomplishments" published in the Las Vegas Sun. Her piece discusses how opponents of Question 1 on the Nevada ballot wrongfully claim the successes of students, staff, and faculty as "NSHE"…

Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine) was installed as president of the Clark County Medical Society during a virtual ceremony this month. Dr. John Fildes (Medicine) received the Presidents Award with Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) serving as an ex-officio member of the board. Dr. Elissa Palmer (Medicine) was installed as a member of the…

Iesha Jackson (Teaching and Learning), Doris L. Watson (Educational Psychology and Higher Education), Marcie Gallo (History), and Claytee White (Oral History Center) gave their second of two peer review presentations on their collaborative project, Digging Deep and Branching Out: Using Oral History and Collaborative Inquiry to Explore Candidate…

Lidio Lima de Albuquerque, Milan Pantovic, Katherine Fischer, Sharon Jalene, and Brach Poston (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Science), Mitchel Clingo (Medicine), and Merrill Landers (Physical Therapy), along with Zoltan Mari of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center, wrote "An Acute Application of Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current…