Joe Alvarado, Stacy Sumpter, and Kayla Sullivan (all Nursing) are graduate students who recently successfully defended their Doctor of Nursing Practice projects. They will earn their doctorate statuses when they finish their classes. Topics included:
Sullivan: “An Intervention to…
Jenna Heath (Liberal Arts) and Sam Leif (Summer Term) presented at The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, the topic being "Experiential Learning During COVID-19: Did We Serve Our Students?" They discussed the power of virtual internships during COVID-19. …
Michelle Tusan (History) delivered a lecture, "Mapping Genocide and the Refugee Experience during the Great War in the Middle East," for the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Aaron Cowan, Erin K. Drew, Keeva Danielle Lough, John McVay, Laurence Myers Reese, and Emily Sarten (all Art) received congressional commendations from Congresswoman Dina Titus. Each MFA candidate was recognized for contributing to the arts and culture in Las Vegas. The commendation was…
Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies) published an article in Management Communication Quarterly titled "High Reliability Collaborations: Theorizing Interorganizational Reliability as Constituted through Translation." The article studies how multiple risk and emergency organizations collaborate…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) were interviewed by Medscape News for the feature, “Less Sleep, More Burnout Linked to Higher COVID-19 Risk, Study Shows.” Batra was the lead author on a meta-analysis on psychological impact of COVID-19, which…
Joanna Kepka (Honors) is the recipient of the 2020-21 Alex G. and Faye Spanos Distinguished Teaching Award. Carrying a stipend of $2,000, the annual award recognizes an outstanding UNLV faculty member for their excellence and innovation in teaching and mentorship. To be eligible, faculty members…
Dr. Linh Nguyen and Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (both Dental) co-authored “Biological Aging and Periodontal Disease: Analysis of NHANES (2001-2002),” which appeared online ahead of print last month in the JDR Clinical and Translational Research.
Manoj Sharma (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with coauthors from University of Utah, National Dental College and Hospital (India), University of Kentucky, Coforge, and University of Mississippi Medical Center published an article "Explaining Screen-Time…
Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Du Feng (Nursing), Dr. Petar Planinic, Dr. James Alexander (both Medicine), and Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Dietary Blueberry and Soluble Fiber Supplementation Reduces Risk of Gestational Diabetes in Women with Obesity in a Randomized…
Kendra McGlothen (Neuroscience) represented UNLV at the 2021 Western Association of Graduate Schools Regional 3-Minute Thesis Competition earlier this month. McGlothen's topic was "Astrocytes Affect on Cortical Circuitry and Motor Behavior." She won honorable mention during the…
Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business) and Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) were interviewed by KNPR's State of Nevada this week. They participated as panel experts in the episode "Vaccinated, Now What?" Labus provided advice on COVID prevention measures as the proportion…