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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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 …
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,…
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…