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Grant: Deborah Kuhls, Department of Surgery
Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine) and a team of researchers at UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine have been analyzing crash, injury, and non-adjudicated citation data for over a decade to inform prevention and policy initiatives. Findings are published in quarterly TREND newsletters. The information provides a deeper understanding of risk-taking…
Presentation: Joe Regalia
Professor Joe Regalia (Law) gave a presentation on advanced generative AI for the Nevada Bar entitled, "AI & The Law: Unpacking Generative Intelligence."
Honors: Minkyo Lee
Minkyo Lee (Intercollegiate and Professional Sport Management) earned the Best Paper Award at the 2023 Sport Entertainment & Venues Tomorrow (SEVT) conference held in Columbia, South Carolina. Lee led the study titled, "Building a university brand through intercollegiate athlete programs: A comparison of eSport and sport' in collaboration with…
Presentation: Darnelle Melvin
Darnelle Melvin (Libraries) presented a paper and poster, "WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Framework for Wikidata Graph Exploration and Visualization," at the 4th Wikidata Workshop co-located with the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2023) in Athens Greece. The paper was co-authored by Cory Lampert and Andre Hulet (both…
Published: Charlton Bassett, Hunter Triplett, Keegan Lott, Katherine M. Howard, Karl Kingsley
Charlton Bassett, Hunter Triplett, Keegan Lott (all Medicine) with Katherine M. Howard and Karl Kingsley (both Dental) recently published their study, "Differential Expression of MicroRNA (MiR-27, MiR-145) among Dental Pulp Stem Cells (DPSCs) Following Neurogenic Differentiation Stimuli," in the MDPI journal, Biomedicines. 
Appointment/Election: An-Pyng Sun
An-Pyng Sun (Social Work) was reappointed by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), "the largest membership organization of professional social workers in the world,” to be a member of its Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (ATOD) Specialty Practice Section (SPS) Committee. Her term has been extended to 2025. Her article…
Published: Ben Leffel
Ben Leffel (Public Policy and Leadership) has published a new piece in npj Climate Action (with coauthors Don Grant and Evan Johnson) on what matters for decarbonizing power plants: They show that for the world's power plants, what matters for carbon emissions reductions (2009-2018) is not national-level climate policy, but city-level climate…
Published: Skip Crooker
Skip Crooker (Decision Support), along with Aju Fenn (Colorado College), have published a paper titled, "The Dollar Value of an NFL Rivalry." The analysis within the paper quantifies the dollar value of a divisional rivalry between the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers by asking survey respondents how much they would be…
Published: Manoj Sharma
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published a paper titled, “Asynchronous Online Teaching of Research Methods to Graduate Students: Application of the Multi-Theory Model of Health Behavior Change,” in ICERI 2023 Proceedings. The article is a case study of a successful pedagogical application of his fourth-generation…

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