Nicole Short (Psychology) was awarded a five-year Career Development award by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (1K23DA054299-01A1; total to be awarded $787,634). This award will allow her to test the initial efficacy of and mechanisms underlying a new digital therapeutic she developed to prevent the development of posttraumatic stress disorder…

Drs. Kurt Regner and Eduardo Robleto's (both Life Sciences) NSF REU Site: Mechanisms of Evolution (DBI 2244087) proposal was funded ($350,972, Start Date: 03/15/regner2023, End Date: 02/28/2026). 

Ph.D. student Hannah Patenaude (Radiochemistry) and fellow of the Glenn T. Seaborg Institute at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), recently published a technical paper on the history of the Los Alamos Plutonium Fast Reactor, Clementine. The article was published in the online journal Nuclear Technology and provides an in-depth look at…

The Nevada Arts Council has awarded musical director and conductor of the UNLV Symphony Orchestra Taras Krysa (Music) a Fiscal Year 2023 Grant Award in the Project Grant for Artists category for a Bach Brandenburg Concertos event with Las Vegas Sinfonietta Orchestra on March 19.    The Nevada Arts…

Janelle Yasukochi (Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education) and Maria Aladjova (Health Sciences) served as the conference co-chairs, representing Region 9, at the NACADA Region 8, 9, & 10 Conference: Illuminating the Path of Possibilities, recently held in Las Vegas from Feb. 27-March 1. NACADA is the professional association for Academic…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented during the American Mosquito Control Association 89th Annual Meeting from Feb. 27-Mar. 3 in Reno, Nevada. She gave three oral presentations and one poster presentation on the following topics: "Investigating molecular mechanisms of insecticide resistance in the Eastern…

Dr. Peter Kim and Dr. Jo-Lawrence Bigcas (Otolaryngology, Medicine) were invited to speak at the 4th Annual Sin City Sinus conference, hosted by renowned rhinologist Dr. Phil Chen. As UNLV faculty, Dr. Kim and Dr. Bigcas represented the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV with presentations on the Management of Epistaxis and…

Colleen Hall-Patton (Sociology) recently published the article, "My 'Christopher Columbus' Eleanor Beard quilt," which looks at a 1930s quilt by a quilt entrepreneurial company inspired by a 1600s quilt, in Blanket Statements, the quarterly newsletter of the American Quilt Study Group. 

Hikmet Loe's (Art) recent article, "Viewing the Colorado River: Between Art and Actuality," was published by Southwest Contemporary in their issue "Finding Water in the West" (vol. 7, 2023).