Hyunhwa “Henna” Lee and Rhigel “Jay” Tan (both Nursing) were named 2026 Fellows of the Academy of Diversity Leaders in Nursing (ADLN), a national honor recognizing nurse leaders who have advanced justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) in nursing education, research, practice, policy, and administration. Lee was selected as a…

Stefani Evans (Libraries) participated in the roundtable discussion "Growing Archives of Trauma, Part II: Preservation, Stewardship, and the Public Life of Trauma-Based Oral Histories" at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association.

Caroline Zhang, J. Daniel Chi, Jagdish Mehta, Siegfried Anyomi, Robin Vitiello, Steven Borgna, and Yi Xiao (all Finance) attended the Teaching Personal Finance Conference at Stanford University. The conference provided an opportunity to exchange ideas, share insights, and learn from educators and researchers from around the world. UNLV…

Ubalaeze Solomon Elechi (Business), a graduate student in UNLV's dual MBA/MHA program, is the lead author of a study recently published in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science examining the relationship between hospital participation in health information networks and patients' reports of discharge information. The researchers analyzed data from…

In her latest Verdict column, Leslie C. Griffin (Law) analyzed the Massachusetts Attorney General's major report on clergy sexual abuse across the Fall River, Springfield, and Worcester Dioceses. 

Dr. Brandon Karcher (Medicine) won first prize for the Nevada American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Resident Paper Competition with his abstract entitled "A Disproportionate Burden: Injury Severity, Outcomes, and Resource Use in Unhoused Pedestrians."  Dr. Karcher will compete at the COT Region 9 (comprising Arizona, California,…

Dr. Sam Matthys (Medicine) presented a poster entitled "Management of Progressive Bilateral Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury with Transient Neurologic Deficits in a Young Polytrauma Patient" at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Neurocritical Care Society exploring the challenging management of bilateral carotid injuries in a patient with multiple other…

Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) and Yvonne Houy (Fine Arts) presented “Introducing QGIS effectively with learner-generated data” at the Oct 2026 QGIS User Conference, as part of that group’s focus on developing geospatial research tools and techniques for a wide range of users. The presentation introduced course design, pedagogical,…

Graduate students Stephanie Meza, Juan Plancarte Hernandez, and Marissa Rakos (all Education) presented Breaking Silos: Intersectional Testing Supports for Multilingual Learners with Disabilities at the 2026 ATLAS Conference on October 17. Their research examined how school leaders can better support multilingual learners with disabilities during…