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…

UNLV Sports Innovation Institute Announces 2024 Catalyst Grant Recipients UNLV Sports Innovation Institute and the Office of Economic Development (OED) are pleased to announce this year’s Catalyst Grant Recipients. This year’s winning proposals include a principal investigator (PI) and co-principal investigator (Co-PI) from five colleges across…

Vy Nguyen (Libraries) is the winner of the Libraries' 2024 Classified Staff of the Year award. She was nominated for her dedication to supporting students both in the Libraries and across the university.

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Impulsivity and diverse forms of sports wagering in the U.S.: An examination of the UPPS-P model," in Addictive Behaviors.