Federick Ngo and Juanita Hinojosa (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a study on the impact of expanding state financial aid resources to undocumented community college students. Titled "Broadened Possibilities: Undocumented Community College Student Course…
Sadia Shaukat (Education), a visiting Fulbright Scholar, was chosen to participate in the inaugural Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) Inquiry Initiative. The initiative is a first-of-its-kind three-year collaborative inquiry for professional educators (scholars and practitioners) from multiple…
Dr. Tina Brandon Abbatangelo (Dental) has been accepted to the 2022-23 UNLV President’s Fellows Program, which is a leadership development initiative that enables faculty members to acquire high-level administrative experience while working on strategic initiatives of interest to the central…
Kristin Steffen (Medicine) received the Outstanding Part-time Instructor award from the UNLV School of Public Health in April. The senior director of faculty affairs and interim director of continuing medical education at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, she teaches the Public Health…
Dr. Pauline Phan, Kevin O'Connell, and Britney Alford (all Student Wellness) recently presented a poster for themselves and Dr. Joseph Kithas and Robert Durette (both Student Wellness) at the American College Health Association conference this month titled "Utilization Trends in Behavioral Health…
LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was honored with an Alumni Award from the Mortar Board National Council on June 5. The award recognizes outstanding achievement and leadership.
Additionally, she was asked to present to the 2022 ELLA Class for…
Claytee D. White (Oral History Research Center) is joining community icons Audry Batiste, Richard Bryan, Rob Dondero, Michael Green, Peter Guzman, John Mowbray, Ted Quirk, Bob Stoldal, and many others on the Board of Directors of The Mob Museum, National Museum of Organized Crime & Law…
Krystal Kittle (Social & Behavioral Health) has been accepted into the 2022-23 cohort of the San Diego Alzheimer's Disease Research Center for Minority Aging Research (AD-RCMAR) Scientists for her research proposal on "Racial/Ethnically Diverse Sexual and Gender Minority Caregivers of…
Acacia Herndon (Nursing) was selected out of 97 entries for the Best Student Poster at the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Along with professor Jennifer Vanderlaan (Nursing), she studied midwifery independent licensing in relation to state regulations. Herndon is an undergraduate student.
Karl Kingsley, Megan Tufteland, Allison Lenon and Spencer Carlile (all Dental) published "Analysis and Evaluation of the Effects of Melatonin on Oral Keratinocytes: A Pilot Study" in the Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research.
Dr. Sonal Shah and Dr. Jyoti Mago (both Dental) co-presented their poster, “The Pivotal Role of Ultrasonography in Detecting Metastatic Head and Neck Cancers: A Review of Five Cases,” during the American Academy of Oral Medicine National Annual Meeting last month. The study found ultrasonography…
Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with a researcher from Fiji, published an article, "Knowledge or Awareness of Non-communicable Diseases and their Associated Risk Factors among University Students from Fiji: A Cross-sectional Study ," in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences.
Additionally, Batra…