Accomplishments: School of Integrated Health Sciences
Associate professor Jingchun Chen (NIPM) and colleagues were awarded a grant on March 1, 2023.
Title: The impact of COVID-19 on Alzheimer’s disease, focusing on sharing genes and pathways in immune cells from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Foundation grant for one year with $100,000.
This grant is to…
Tedd Girouard (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) competed in the Las Vegas Corporate Challenge Bike Race on April 19, 2023, for the UNLV Bike Team where came in first in his age group as well as overall with an incredible time of 29 minutes for 13.2 miles. The UNLV Bike Team placed 3rd overall in their division.
Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) has received a subaward grant from the project titled, "Suicide Death Among Older Adults Receiving Residential Long-Term Care," sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. The purpose of this study is to evaluate systematically the risk for suicide mortality among nursing home and assisted…
Robert Cochrane (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences PhD candidate), James Navalta (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Anne Weisman (School of Medicine) recently published "The Hero’s Journey as a Novel, Narrative, and Improvisational Group Intervention on Quality of Life for People with Parkinson’s Disease" in Heroism Science. Parkinson’…
Corrie Van Tuyl, Nestor Talon, Oscar Colmenero, Libby Mckindley, Breanna Romo, Madison Walker, Juan Aurelio Garcia, and Lauryn Dawes (all Athletic Training) competed in the 14th Annual Bailey Arnheim Games hosted by California State University, Long Beach on April 2, 2023. UNLV's team won 1st place in the Quiz Bowl, a Jeopardy!-like academic…
Richard Rosenkranz, Ph.D., (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published "A Protocol for a Local Community Monitoring and Feedback System for Physical Activity in Organized Group Settings for Children" in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 1(aop), 1-9.
Dean Ronald Brown (Integrated Health Sciences) gave the keynote address titled, "Excellent Leadership Changes Reality," at the Association of Psychologists in Academic Health Centers in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 16, 2023.
Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) was recently interviewed by insider.com and talked about the impact of nuclear fallout. His discussion was published in the science section of Insider.com and titled: "A nuclear physicist describes 7 things you probably didn't know about radioactive fallout from a nuclear bomb."
Richard Rosenkranz, Ph.D., and Sara Rosenkranz, Ph.D., (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently published, "Holistic Framework to Contextualize Dietary Quality Assessment: A Critical Review," in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health with co-authors Jessica Phelan and Connor Phelan.
Janelle Yasukochi (Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education) and Maria Aladjova (Health Sciences) served as the conference co-chairs, representing Region 9, at the NACADA Region 8, 9, & 10 Conference: Illuminating the Path of Possibilities, recently held in Las Vegas from Feb. 27-March 1. NACADA is the professional association for Academic…
UNLV’s first Circus Research Roundtable brought together a diverse group of individuals including acrobats, trapeze artists, physicians, faculty, students, and strength and conditioning coaches to discuss ways to reduce injuries and boost performance. The wide-ranging discussion touched on areas such as the biomechanics and physiology of movements…
Elias Malek (Integrated Health Sciences), James Navalta, and Graham McGinnis (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) published a Pilot Clinical Trial in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). In this study, participants with chronic migraine exercised for a month either in the morning (before 9 a.m.) or…