Two UNLV Health/Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV medical practitioners were recently named 2023 Healthcare Heroes by Nevada Business Magazine. Each year, judges from competing health care organizations pour through nominations before naming winners in 11 categories. Dr. Michael Daubs, former professor and chair of orthopaedics was named…

The UNLV Sports Innovation Initiative has created a Sport Science Conversations series via remote as well as in-person sessions. The talks are hosted by John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences). Recent featured guests have included Cordero Roche (Sport Scientist, NY Mets), Jason Avedesian (Director of Sports Science, Clemson…

Professor Marketa Trimble (Law) will participate in a panel discussion on September 22, 2023, as part of the Ethics in Engineering Workshop organized by the UNLV University Libraries and Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering. Trimble will discuss Intellectual Property on the panel (copyright law, patent law, and…

Professor Joe Regalia is delivering a talk to the California Lawyer's Association titled, "Unleashing the Power of Generative AI Smartly and Ethically." Regalia's talk explores the practical and ethical challenges posed by generative AI in legal practice — as well as the exciting new possibilities.

Buddha Dawn (Medicine) recently co-authored an article titled, “Anti-inflammatory, anti-fibrotic and pro-cardiomyogenic effects of genetically engineered extracellular vesicles enriched in miR-1 and miR-199a on human cardiac fibroblasts,” in Stem Cell Reviews and Reports. In this study, human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived extracellular…

Published: VirB, a key transcriptional regulator of Shigella virulence, requires a CTP ligand for its regulatory activities Professor Helen J. Wing (Life Sciences) and a team of researchers published their findings in a top-ranked microbiology journal, mBIO, and received the honor of "editors pick" in the journal. The paper lists Taylor Gerson, a…

Nicholas Barron (Anthropology) presented a paper, "Lessons in Safe Logic: Reassessing Anthropological and Liberal Imaginings of Termination," for the Consortium of History of Science, Technology and Medicine's History of Anthropology Working Group on Sept. 6. The paper is part of a forthcoming journal article that documents the relationship…

Professor Jeff Stempel's (Law) article, "The 2022 New Jersey Insurance Fair Conduct Act and the Incomplete Evolution of Policyholder Protection," was published by Rutgers.

Bradley Marianno (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and co-author Annie Hemphill published "Pandemic Memoranda: How School District and Teachers’ Union Administrators Modified Collective Bargaining Agreements During the COVID-19 Pandemic" in the Journal of Educational Administration.