Professor Nancy Rapaport (Law) was a panelist on "Navigating Ethical Challenges: AI Adoption in Legal Practice" which is now available to view through the National Academy of Continuing Legal Education's website.
Professor Thomas Main's (Law) symposium contribution, "The Mechanical Application of Rules," was presented at the symposium, "Fifty Years in the Conflicts Vineyard: In celebration of Symeon C. Symeonides, Alex L. Parks Distinguished Chair in Law & Dean Emeritus," at the Willamette University College of Law. The symposium was co-organized…
Professor Lori Johnson (Law) was a speaker on a webinar titled, "Legal Ethics - Best Practices/Hot Off the Presses- Recent Cases & Decisions," which is now available on demand for viewing.
Professor Jeff Stempel (Law) spoke on "Cutting Edge Issues on the Duty to Defend" at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American College of Coverage Counsel in Chicago.
Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health) was a guest on KNPR's State of Nevada for a segment on "New UNLV program helps young girls with mental health, body image."
Pharr talks about the Raiders, UNLV, Sports and Health (RUSH) program, which uses sports to help middle school-aged girls cope with mental health and body image issues.
Dr. Francisco S. Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health), professor and chair, serves as a member of the Technical Advisory Group of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health for the "Health of Women of U3 Populations Data Book," which was launched by NIH on May 15, 2024, during National Women’s Health Week.…
Susan Lee Johnson (History) has been elected to membership in the Society of American Historians, an organization dedicated to literary excellence in writing history and biography. Johnson is the first UNLV faculty member to be invited to join the society. On May 13, 2024, Johnson attended the society's annual dinner in New York City, where…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Ravi Batra (Public Health) (as a part of GBD 2021 risk factors collaborators) contributed to a recent study, "Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021," published in Lancet. This…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published a paper on "Genetic surveillance of insecticide resistance in African Anopheles populations to inform malaria vector control" in the journal Trends in Parasitology.
Insecticide resistance in malaria vector populations poses a major threat to malaria control, which relies…
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.