Kavita Batra (Medicine) with her international collaborators from Iran, Italy, Nigeria, Fez-Morocco, published a study "Efficacy of Foot Orthoses with Sensorimotor Bars on Gait, Postural Control, and Muscle Activity in Healthy Individuals and Those with Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Systematic Review" in the Iranian Rehabilitation Journal.
Professor Nancy Rapaport (Law) hosted a panel discussion on “The Twilight Zone: Have We Gone Nose Blind to Ethical Issues From the Bench and In the Practice” at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Annual Conference in Seattle.
Dr. Kavita Batra (Medicine) was recently interviewed by the Las Vegas Review Journal to share her insights about a dental clinic "Changing Smiles Pediatric Dentistry," a new nonprofit dental facility in North Las Vegas. Through this article, Batra discusses the preventive strategies in reducing the disparities in oral health outcomes, especially…
Samantha Smith, Erika Marquez, Amanda Haboush-Deloye, Tiana Tu, Aaliyah Goodie (all Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy), and David Perez (Nevada Department of Health and Human Services) published an article on "Role of community engagement in advancing vaccine equity" in the journal Frontiers in Public Health.
The COVID-19…
Professor Benjamin Edwards (Law) presented at the 2024 Summit for Corporate Governance on a panel entitled "Challenges to Delaware's Dominance: Contributing causes, Rush to remedy and Anxiously Awaiting Alternatives."
Professor Justin Iverson (Law) presented at this year's WestPac annual conference on Transforming the Legal Landscape: Access to Justice in Rural Communities. WestPac is a regional chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).
Professor Ruben J. Garcia (Law) presented "Hostile Environments" at the annual Colloquium On Scholarship in Employment & Labor Law. The paper seeks to expand hostile work environment theories to other legally hostile environments.
Gary Totten (Faculty Affairs) has published the coedited book Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom (University of Illinois Press). A reviewer notes that the book "foregrounds the imperative of teaching anti-racist education through the adoption of racial literacy and innovative pedagogies to offer critical hope for social change in…
With a little guidance from his mother, the new director of Student Diversity Programs is ready to cheer on and empower UNLV's diverse student population.