Zahra Mojtahedi (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Ying Guo (Environmental and Occupational Health), Pearl Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Parsa Khawari (Public Health), Hailey Ephrem (Public Health), and Jay Shen (Center for Health Disparities Research, Healthcare Administration and Policy) recently published a paper titled, "…

Professor Stephen Caplan (Music) was a featured speaker for the national conference of the Music Teachers National Association held in Reno, Nevada. His talk, "90% Mental, the Other Half in Physical! — The Body/Mind Conundrum in Music Performance," was part of MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday: Musician Wellness. Caplan was also invited to participate in a…

Sarah Jones (Libraries) is the recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Libraries Faculty Scholarship Award. Jones’ scholarship has appeared or been accepted for publication in top journals in the archival field including the American Archivist, the leading professional journal for archivists, along with the Journal of Contemporary Archival…

David R. Gruber (Urban Affairs) published a paper titled, "Material foundations of scientific metaphors: A New Materialist metaphor studies." The paper uses a case study from the neurosciences to argue that scholarly discussions of scientific metaphors in the humanities and social sciences must give greater attention to the specific…

Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art History) published a review of artist Clarissa Tossin’s one-person exhibition at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art with the College Art Association’s caareviews. The Brazilian-born Tossin’s work explores legacies of extraction across multiple horizons: the Amazon rainforest, the High Frontier of outer space, and e…

Dean Ronald Brown (Integrated Health Sciences) gave the keynote address titled, "Excellent Leadership Changes Reality," at the Association of Psychologists in Academic Health Centers in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 16, 2023.

Kristen Phipps (History) has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library for the 2023-2024 academic year. 

Xan Goodman (Libraries) has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the McPhee Librarian of the Year Award. Goodman was nominated for her dedication, research-informed, and community-responsive approaches to librarianship that make the UNLV Libraries a respected and valuable part of our university community, the Las Vegas community, and the broader…

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental Medicine) presented two multi-institution collaborative sessions during the American Dental Education Association annual meeting last month. Her first presentation titled, "New Dental Specialties Are Possible: Oral Medicine, Orofacial Pain and Dental Anesthesiology," examined the results of a student and faculty survey…