Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) has been selected for the Fulbright Specialist Roster for the 2026–2029 term. The Fulbright Specialist Program, sponsored by the United States Department of State, is an international academic exchange initiative that connects qualified specialists with institutions in more than 150 countries. The…

Darin Mains (Medicine), project director of the Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Project, presented “2024 Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Report” at the 2026 Nevada Traffic Safety Summit in Reno, Nevada on October 14th. Co-authored with Deborah Kuhls, Kavita Batra, Setareh Zarei, and Grace Gonzalez Caballero (all Medicine);…

  The Dr. William W. Sullivan Center for Academic Enrichment and Outreach (CAEO) received continued grant funding for multiple programs. CAEO Pre-College Awards TRIO Educational Talent Search (ETS, New): Five grants totaling $11.9M, serving 4,800 participants annually (a net improvement of $2.6M over five years and 1,540 participants…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited to have a talk, titled "How the Artificial Intelligence influences teaching, research, and job market in social science," by National Taiwan University. In this talk, Wang shared how universities adopted different AI policies, recent researches of AI adoption on academic performance, and how…

Sam Leif (Teaching and Learning) published Against the Meta: The Evolution of Women's Competitive Apex Legends. This book is the first documented history of women's competitive Apex Legends; drawn from firsthand interviews, tournament archives, Discord records, and player testimony, it traces how a community of players, organizers, coaches,…

Benjamin Edwards (Law) served as a panelist for the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) Nevada Chapter’s event. The panel was titled "Using AI to Increase Law Firm Enterprise Value: What Nevada Practitioners Can Learn From Kirkland’s $500 Million AI Bet."

Faculty Jessica Immonen (Dental), Steven Saxe (Dental), and Jason Ciccotelli (Integrated Health Sciences) coauthored an article with DMD student John Regis titled "The Lateral Recovery Position in Medical vs Dental Emergencies." This article was published in The Journal of Integrative Physiology as a cadaveric case study and clinical anatomy…

The following faculty and resident physicians in the Department of Internal Medicine and Office of Research were recognized for their contributions and excellence at the Nevada Chapter American College of Physicians Annual Chapter Meeting. Chapter Excellence Award -- Dr Aditi Singh Governor's Recognition Award -- Dr. Lacey Barnes; Dr. Marc…

Professor John Curry (History) has successfully released his new translated book titled The Book of China: A Persian Merchant's Description of the Ming State for the Ottoman Court, by Columbia University Press. Curry worked with his co-editors Kaveh Hemmat and Hyunhee Park to produce an annotated version of the text of `Ali Akbar Khatayi, a…