Reina Ferrufino (Education) will be presenting her work titled, "U.S. Central American Students: Hidden Voices of the Latinx Communities," at the Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institution Educators' (AHSIE) 15th Annual Best Practices Conference: La Quinceañera: Celebrando Crecimiento, Past, Present, and Future.  

Buddha Dawn (Medicine) delivered an invited seminar for master's students at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. His lecture titled, “Heart failure: Pathophysiology and cellular therapy,” discussed the molecular and neurohormonal underpinnings of guideline-directed heart failure management, and also…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's ombuds office. The post, based on his preparations for a spring Honors seminar on jazz history, contrasts two styles of leadership — that of Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington — and ponders the implications for higher education. It is…

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was invited to present at the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society in Boston, Massachusetts. He discussed findings from a study on community college student outcomes in statistics and math after developmental education reform efforts. The…

Ross P. Berkeley, MD, and Kristina H. Domanski, MBBS, (both Emergency Medicine), recently published a manuscript titled, "Impact of the Las Vegas Mass Shooting Event on the Graduate Medical Education Mission: Can There Be Growth from Tragedy?," in the peer-reviewed Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. A cross-sectional survey was…

Ann Vuong's (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) pilot project on "Early life exposure to flame retardants and kidney function in adolescence" was funded by the Mountain West Clinical and Translational Infrastructure Network for $66,000. Data from the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment (HOME) Study will be used to examine whether early…

Tashauna Stewart (Business), Morgan Maunakea (Sciences), Maria Aladjova (Health Sciences), Al Hastings (Honors College), and Tiffany Schmier (Academic Success Center) are the winners of the 2022-23 UNLV Academic Advising Awards presented by the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and the Academic Advising Council Leadership Team…

Faculty member Andre Chiang, DMA, and recent graduate Valentine Baron, DMA, (both Music - Voice) presented different sessions at the 68th National Opera Association Annual Conference in Houston, TX. The sessions were titled, “Do That, Too: Honoring Your Whole Creative Self On and Off the Opera Stage” and the 2020-22 Dissertation Competition winner…

Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures), Roberto Zairquiey (PUCP), Pilar Valenzuela (Chapman University), and Anna Maria Escobar (UIUC), co-edited the book Spanish Diversity in the Amazon. Dialect and Language Contact Perspectives. The manuscript was published by Brill. This book, the first of its kind, is dedicated to different Spanish…