Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) was interviewed by KTNV Channel 13 about "Vets reminding pet owners about heartworm risks as more mosquitoes show up across Southern Nevada."
Messenger explains that in the last few years, Las Vegas has seen a massive uptick in mosquitoes, partially due to the weather.
The…
Joshua Coleman (History), Ph.D. candidate, presented a paper titled "Jicarilla Apache, Project Gasbuggy, and the Early Years of Fracking in Indian Country" at the annual conference of the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States at the University of Southampton, in Southampton, England. Coleman's research examined the connections between…
Analiesa Delgado (History), a Ph.D. candidate, presented a paper titled "Escaping the Shadows: 'Runaways,' Kinship, and Community Building at the Greenville Indian School" at the annual conference of the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States at the University of Southhampton, in Southampton, England. Delgado's research used the story…
Ranjani Murali (Life Sciences), in collaboration with researchers from Caltech, is the lead author of a groundbreaking new study that found many more bacteria produce greenhouse gases than previously thought.
The research team discovered a new class of enzymes that enable various bacteria to use nitrate as a substitute for oxygen in low-…
Lynn Comella (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed by the Boston Globe about the new Sexual Entertainment and Economies Collection in UNLV Special Collections and Archives. UNLV is joining with Harvard's Schlesinger Library, Cornell, the University of Toronto, and the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University in documenting…
Randy Reichenfeld (Radiography), a PTI and MR technologist, will be giving this year's MR Safety Week presentation for the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT). Chad Hensley, director of UNLV's radiography program, gave the safety presentation during last year's annual meeting, marking the second year in a row that a…
Joseph Kevin Sebastian (Libraries) presented "Crafting a Queer Information Literacy (QIL) Framework: An Exploration of Embodiment, Digital Learning, and Information Literacy in Academic Spaces" at the 2024 Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium.
Published: School of Public Health; UNLV Health; School of Nursing
Gabriela Buccini, Kaelia Lynn Saniatan, Cristina Hernandez, Cali Larrison (all School of Public Health); Dodds P. Simangan and Jyoti Desai (UNLV Health); and Melva Thompson-Robinson (School of Nursing) published, "Nurturing care assets for food security: a community asset mapping approach," in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. This…
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.