Faculty and staff joined the dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at his fourth State of the School Address, the second one to be hosted at the Medical Education Building.
ESPN, UNLV Announce Recipients Of First Responsible Gambling Fellowships
One day before ESPN BET went live in 17 states in November, UNLV announced that ESPN had donated $200,000 to the school’s International Gaming Institute (IGI) for research related to responsible sports betting. On Tuesday, UNLV and ESPN revealed whom their first fellowships had been awarded to — and for which fields of study. According to a press release, each of the fellows will deliver research on “unique facets of responsible gambling messaging in sports media” as the intersection between sports and gambling continues to evolve.
Legal experts say Aristocrat copyright lawsuit won’t be easy to win
Legal experts say Aristocrat Technologies Inc.’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Las Vegas slot machine manufacturer Light & Wonder Inc. may be difficult to win, but an unusual wrinkle in the case — that former Aristocrat employees worked on their rival’s product — could be significant to the outcome.
Alireza Rezaee (Public Health, Pollen Monitoring Lab) presented a poster titled, "Comparison of Airborne Fungal Spore Concentrations in Las Vegas from 2020-2022" during the regional Arizona and Southern Nevada branch meeting of the American Society for Microbiology held at UNLV.
Shashi Nambisan, Juliana Byzyka, Khandaker Arafin Islam (Transportation Research Center), and Shreya Chindepalli (University of Texas at Arlington) published "A Study of Electric Vehicles Ecosystem in Nevada" in 2024 Forum of Innovative Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS) by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The…
Sarah M. Wolff and Daniel B. Wright (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), along with their colleague Glynis Breakwell at the University of Bath, have published an open access article in the Royal Society Open Science titled, “Psychometric evaluation of the Trust in Science and Scientists Scale."
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