Whitney Elks, Christina Dantam, Adam Rooks, Kencie Ely, Spencer Schulte, Kavita Batra, Jocelyn Burke (all Medicine) along with Varun Jain (Medicine, University of Kentucky) presented their study "Role of Resistance Training after Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review" at the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) 40th…
James King (Medicine), assistant director of AV services for the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, was presented the award for AV Manager of the Year at InfoComm 2024.
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Uncovering the genetic diversity in Aedes aegypti insecticide resistance genes through global comparative genomics" in the journal Scientific Reports. Aedes aegypti is a vector of many arboviruses including Zika, dengue, yellow fever, West Nile and Chikungunya.…
Scott C. Jackson (Accounting) and co-authors Blake Steenhoven (Queen's University) and Kristina Rennekamp (Cornell University) recently published their paper, "CEO gender and responses to shareholder activism," in Contemporary Accounting Research, a premier accounting research journal. The study investigates how a CEO’s cooperative or…
Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) received an honorable mention for her book, Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times, from the American Sociological Association's (ASA) Latino/a Sociology Section's Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award.
S. Kathleen Krach (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) recently co-authored an article on the well-being of school psychology faculty as part of a retention/recruitment effort to discover why there is a shortage in this area. It was published in Contemporary School Psychology.
Professor Yoohwan Kim (Computer Science) and Mehdi Abid (Computer Science) presented “Working with Cyber Clinic Clients” at the Workshop on Building a Sustainable Cybersecurity Clinic in Higher Education.  UNLV’s Cyber Clinic is an active member of The Consortium, a network of academic institutions that collaborate to expand…
LeAnne Salazar Montoya's (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) recent publication, "Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: What’s in a Name?", examines the intricate meanings and implications behind the terms equity, diversity, and inclusion within contemporary discussions and practices. The work delves into how these concepts are…
Professor Joe Regalia (Law) recently published, "From Briefs to Bytes: How Generative AI is Transforming Legal Writing and Practice," in the Tulsa Law Review. This article acts as a framework for introducing legal practitioners, teachers, and students to generative Ai, its possibilities, its ethical pitfalls--and its many applications to practice…

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