Lily Liu (Medicine) secured 2nd place at the 26th Annual Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum at UNLV for her study, "Investigating The Use of Open vs. Endoscopic Drainage for Pancreatic Pseudocyst Among Adults: A 2017-2020 National Inpatient Sample Study," in collaboration with Camryn Schroeder (Medicine), and physicians Renuka…

Jacquelyn Fields (Medicine) secured first place at the 26th Annual Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum at UNLV with her poster: CEM radiomics for distinguishing lesion from background parenchymal enhancement in patients with invasive breast cancer. Collaborating with B.A. Varghese, M. Perkins, S. Cen, X. Lei, J. Jamie, B.…

Alex Woster (Medicine) presented his study "Sensitivity and Specificity of Sex for Detecting Differences in Depth Jumps Performed by NCAA Athletes" at the 26th Annual Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum at UNLV. Collaborating with Talin Louder, Brennan J. Thompson, and Eadric Bressel from Utah State University, the team…

The April edition of Nevada Lawyer Magazine, published by the State Bar of Nevada, features an article by Riana Durrett (Cannabis Policy Institute) on cannabis rescheduling. The article, which reviews banking and tax questions in relation to possible cannabis rescheduling, also gives an overview of the history of cannabis legalization in the…

Pearl Kim and Haniyeh Shariatmadari (both Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy; Center for Health Disparities Research), along with their collaborators at the Optum Care, recently published an article, "Socioeconomic factors associated with use of telehealth services in outpatient care settings…

Brittani Sterling (Libraries) is the winner of the UNLV Libraries inaugural Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award. She was nominated for the major contributions she has made to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the areas of job performance, scholarship, and service in addition to honors that have been bestowed upon her like being the…

Doctoral student Paula Ramirez (Radiochemistry) has been selected for a fellowship under the Department of Energy's University Nuclear Leadership Program (UNLP), becoming the eighth student from UNLV to win the prestigious award. The highly competitive graduate fellowship program will fully fund Ramirez's research over a three-year period…

Jeff Schauer (History) organized a panel on converging and competing knowledge systems and conservation in southern Africa at the meeting of the American Society for Environmental History in Denver. Schauer's own paper was titled "Tracking Puku: Traditional knowledge, skills, and the crafting of Zambian wildlife science." The paper used the…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on informed informality, his blog that considers people, culture, conflict, and history, among other things. The post uses the writing of Mary Rowe as a springboard to explore the role of bystanders in addressing wrongdoing, considering what they need before they speak out. For more information…