After an unexpected start in public health, this professor of social and behavioral health is uncovering the complexities of substance misuse and childhood trauma.
A lot of wild ideas get launched in Vegas and we’re home to the weirdest combination of architecture on the planet. But is there another Vegas, an even weirder version, that was never built? As the city waits to see if the A’s baseball stadium will break ground this year, co-hosts Sarah Lohman and Dayvid Figler sit down with UNLV history professor Michael Green to run through the wildest Vegas projects that were never built.
Steve Wynn Asks Supreme Court to Revisit Key Press Freedom Case
Steve Wynn, who once ran big casinos, wants the US Supreme Court to take another look at the 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan ruling. This decision has protected press freedom in the US for a long time. Wynn made this request after Nevada’s highest court threw out his lawsuit against the Associated Press (AP) and a reporter named Regina Garcia Cano. He claimed the media and journalist had damaged his reputation.
Is Chocolate Good For Your Heart? Here's What Science Says
For hundreds of years, people have turned to chocolate to boost heart health. Back in the 1500s, the indigenous Aztec people consumed cocoa as a drink believed to treat various ailments, including angina, a type of chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart.
The primary focus for the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine's continuous improvement program is to make sure there is a robust system in place for improvement processes and for accreditation.
Mehdi Abid and Keith Daniel Tan (both Computer Science) were invited to present on the UNLV Cyber Clinic at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Small Business Cybersecurity Webinar - University-Based Cybersecurity Clinic: Educating the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Leaders While Safeguarding Small Businesses.
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Published: Barbara Lewis, Chris Cochran, Erika Marquez, Neeraj Bhandari, Jennifer Pharr, Soumya Upadhyay, Stowe Shoemaker
Barbara Lewis, Chris Cochran, Erika Marquez, Neeraj Bhandari, Jennifer Pharr, Soumya Upadhyay (all School of Public Health), and Stowe Shoemaker (Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement), co-authored an article, "Use of Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils: A Scoping Study," in the Journal of Patient Experience.
Presentation: Chad Hensley, Heidi Shelton, Chrissie Choa, Michael Tarby
Congratulations to the entire faculty from UNLV's Radiography program for participating in the 50th annual conference for the Association of Collegiate Educators in Radiologic Technology (ACERT) in Las Vegas. Chad Hensley, Director of the Radiography program, gave the conference's keynote address that included more than 900 students and faculty in…
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