The UNLV Concerto Competition was held January 26, and the winner was Ana Elisa Portes Lima (Music, College of Fine Arts) - Mezzo Soprano, DMA student of music professor Kimberly James. Her repertoire was Maurice Ravel's  “Sheherezade." The judges — professors Taras Krysa, DeAnne Letourneau, and Richard Kravchak — were…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's ombuds office. This post is about his recent experience at the Involvement Fair, and an unexpected benefit it delivered. For more information about the ombuds office, please visit its website.

Renato (Rainier) M. Liboro (Psychology) recently published a book chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Queer and Trans Music Therapy (Psychology series) titled, "Epistemic Privilege and Epistemic Responsibility: Responding to an Inherent Call to Address the Needs of Queer and Trans Folx in Music Therapy." From the perspective of standpoint theory,…

Dr. Aditi Singh (Residency Program Director, Internal Medicine) recently received a "Distinguished Teacher/Mentor Award" from the American College of Physicians (ACP) Nevada Chapter, 2022. Dr. Singh received this award in 2017, as well, which demonstrates her continued efforts and excellence in mentoring medical residents. Additionally, she is the…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Mucosal circadian rhythm pathway genes altered by aging and periodontitis,” which published in the December 6 issue of PLoS ONE. The study examined the expression of circadian rhythm genes in periodontitis, and concluded that variation in disease expression and the underlying molecular mechanisms of…

Katherine Howard, Karl Kingsley, Matthew Hunsaker, Adelle Fuller, and Brandon Richards (all Dental Medicine) recently published their study, "Expression of Exosome-Derived MicroRNAs miR-21 and miR-135 are Differentially Regulated Among Dental Pulp Stem Cells," in the latest issue of Current Research in Medicine. 

Ahmad Gill, Omar Al-Taweel, Sadaf Fakhra, Kyaw Min Tun, Dalia Hawwass, and Chowdhury Ahsan (all Medicine) published, "Short-term Outcomes of Patients Transferred From Non-Acute Care Centers With Sick Sinus Syndrome," in the European Heart Journal.

Congratulations to Jenna Sutton, Hazem Aboaid, and Lubaba Haque (all Medicine) for winning the Nevada ACP Chapter Doctor's Dilemma. They will be representing Nevada at the National ACP Doctor's Dilemma Competition!

Mark Chang (Internal Medicine) and colleagues published the article, "Genomic and Transcriptomic Predictors of Response from Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Patients with Oligoprogressive Renal Cell Carcinome," in European Urology Oncology.