Benjamin Edwards (Law) served as a panelist at the American College of Governance Counsel’s 2026 Annual Institute on Corporate Governance, held in New York. He participated in the panel "Current State of Delaware-Nevada-Texas" during the conference, which focused on "Bleeding Edge Issues in Corporate and Securities Law and Governance."

Joseph Lema (Hospitality) presented the World Tourism Cities Development Report (2025–2026) at the opening session of the World Conference on Tourism Cooperation and Development 2026 on September 8, 2026, in Beijing, China. The report systematically assesses 100 representative tourist cities worldwide, covering 70 countries and regions. Lema was…

Kavita Batra, Aditi Singh, Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (all Medicine), along with their collaborators from the University of California, San Francisco and Creighton University School of Medicine, published "Characteristics and Success of Internal Medicine Applicants to Subspecialty Fellowships" in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Drawing on…

Madeline Clark and Heather Dahl-Jacinto (both Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Service) published their text "A DSM-5-TR Companion for Counselors: A Trauma-Informed and Socially Just Model for Diagnosis and Treatment Planning."

Benjamin Edwards (Law) presented at the ABA Business Law Section meeting in Chicago. He joined fellow panelists Jessica Erickson (Richmond Law), Hillary Holmes (Gibson Dunn), Steve Haas (Hunton), and John Mark Zeberkiewicz (Richards Layton) for a session titled, "A Comparison of Key Provisions of the Model Business Corporation Act and the Delaware…

Constance Brooks Johnson (Government and Community Engagement) was selected by the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Bar Association (LVNBA) as the recipient of the 2026 President's Hidden Figure Award. This award recognizes Brooks Johnson's leadership behind the scenes and her lasting contributions to the community,…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored a study, "Global, regional, and national prevalence of second-hand smoke and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023," published in The Lancet Public Health. The first dedicated analysis of second-hand smoke as a…

Five years of evidence deliver a reassuring message: GLP-1 medicines are not linked to major psychiatric harm. Research co-authored by Kavita Batra (Medicine), Jagdish Khubchandani from New Mexico State University, and colleagues found no increased risk of suicidal thoughts, depression, or other serious psychiatric outcomes in the general treated…

Grants and Research Director Noehealani Antolin (Medicine) served as an invited panelist at the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) Annual Conference, held August 29–September 2, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Antolin was one of five panelists in the session "Riding Safe: Electric Bikes, Scooters and the Road Ahead," which examined how…