Notable: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine; School of Public Health
Jeffrey Martin, Henry Krasner, Crysty-Ann Olaco, Kavita Batra and Dale Netski (all Medicine), along with Nicolette Harmon (Public Health) received the Best Oral Presentation Award for their paper, "Community level correlates of COVID-19 booster vaccine hesitancy in the United States: A cross-sectional analysis," from the Vaccines journal in their…
Professor Courtney Cross (Law) presented on the intersection of intimate partner violence and HIV at the Southern Nevada HIV Prevention Planning Group meeting.
Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) has been appointed to a three-year term as juror for the College Art Association's Millard Meiss Publication fund. CAA awards Meiss funds twice a year to support the publication of book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects that have been accepted by a publisher on…
College of Sciences Advancing Success of Underrepresented Groups – Awards for Academic Year 2024-25
What is it?
Overseen by the College of Sciences DEI Committee this program within the college recognizes that the career progression of underrepresented groups in the STEM fields faces a number of challenges at all levels. The program offers…
Hokwon Cho (Mathematical Sciences) published a single-authored research article (partially UNLV funded), "Goodness-of-fit tests for multinomial models with inverse sampling," online in the Francis Taylor Statistics journal, Sequential Analysis Vol. 43, Issue 3 (2024).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07474946.2024.2367974
Kathryn Houk (Libraries, Medicine) is the co-editor of a new book, Toward Inclusive Academic Librarian Hiring Practices, published by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). The book provides evidence-based discussions on inclusive hiring practices in academic libraries that recenters people in the process and incorporates…
Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) and colleagues from University of Kentucky, ADA Forsyth Institute, and University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio co-authored “Realizing the clinical utility of saliva for monitoring oral diseases,” which published July 15 in the journal Periodontology 2000. The study aimed to provide an overview of the…
Juliana Byzyka (Transportation Research Center) was recently appointed to the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NHRP) Project 20-136 Panel. This project, titled "Use of Data from Sensors Integrated within Connected Vehicles in Maintenance Management and Pavement Management," focuses on identifying available sensing technologies…
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.