Professor Ruben Garcia (Law) was on the Power Hour blogcast as part of a panel discussion on conversation on the politics of labor and labor in politics, the unfinished business of pro-worker legislation, unfinished business at the NLRB, and bargaining over new technologies. 
Avinash Yaganapu and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) published original research titled, "Multi-layered Self-attention Mechanism for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation," in Computer Vision and Image Understanding (IF: 4.5). This study proposed a new strategy that incorporates multi-layered self-attentions to enhance pseudo pixel-level…
Professor John Valery White (Law) has been nominated to serve on the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Executive Committee. His nomination will be voted on at the Meeting of the House of Representatives at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in January 2024. 
Professor Ruben J. Garcia (Law) was featured on the Fox 5 Vegas channel on the "Ask the Experts" segment to discuss the strides made by labor nationally and locally in 2023 with the UAW, Writers Guild, SAG, and local Culinary Union all negotiating historic deals with their industries.
Gio Lee, Justin Vo, and Neamat Hassan (all Dental) recently published their study, "Shear Bond Strength of Different Types of Cement Used for Bonding Band and Loop Space Maintainer," in the Open Journal of Stomatology.
Dean Smith (Nevada Extreme Conditions Laboratory) was awarded an NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-4 fellowship totaling $219,228 over 2024 and 2025. The fellowship will primarily fund frequent travel for Smith and a student to perform experiments in the University of California Berkeley College of Chemistry, where they will…
Paul W. Werth (History), together with colleague Charlotte Henze (University of Basel), has secured grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and a special research fund at the University Basel for a workshop on Russia's borders, sovereignty, and territoriality, to be held in mountain retreat near the Swiss-Italian border in June…
Whitney Elks, Allison McNickle, Matthew Kelecy, Kavita Batra, Shirley Wong, Shawn Wang, Lisa Angotti, Deborah Kuhls, Charles St. Hill, Syed Saquib, Paul Chestovich, and Douglas Fraser (all Medicine) published a study, "Early versus late feeding after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy placement in trauma and burn," in the Journal of Surgical…
Director of Communications Karyn S. Hollingsworth (Liberal Arts) won a 2023 Pinnacle Award from the Public Relations Society of America's Las Vegas Valley Chapter. She was recognized for her news story, "UNLV, Community Partners Receive $4 Million in Grants to Expand Mental Health Services." 

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