Janice Pluth (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) is the corresponding author of the paper “Genetic Variation and Radiation Quality Impact Cancer Promoting Cellular Phenotypes in Response to HZE Exposure,” which appears in-press within the journal Life Sciences in Space Research. This work used various normal mammary epithelial strains, with…

Mary Blankenship (Sciences and Brookings Institute) was featured as a guest columnist in the Las Vegas Sun for her opinion editorial, "Lincoln Memorial Reminds Us Who We Are and Can Still Be."  She is a student with a double major in chemistry and math as well as a Brookings public policy minor. 

Dr. Edward Lynch (Dental) accepted an invitation to be the primary speaker during the International Frontiers in Ozone Conference, and Ozone Therapies Group annual meeting. While there, he presented more than 14 hours of lectures and workshops to a collection of dentists, doctors, veterinarians, scientists, and academics from around the world. He…

Kenneth Izuora, Ammar Yousif (both Medicine), Civon Gewelber, and Michael Neubauer (both Dental), along with Gayle Allenback, are the authors of an article appearing in the Journal of Investigative Medicine. This was the result of an investigator-initiated study conducted at the University Medical Center (UMC) that looked at health…

James Navalta (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently published an article with colleagues from the University of Rhode Island, Gary Ligouri and Dylan Kennedy. The paper appeared in the American College of Sports Medicine's Health and Fitness Journal, and focused on how wearables could be utilized in the fitness industry. …

Chris Cochran (Community Health Sciences) received the Service Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and the Nevada chapter of ACHE.  ACHE is an international professional society made up of health care executives who lead hospitals, health care systems and other health care organizations. The ACHE…

Ed Fuentes (Art) is a new faculty member as well as a UNLV graduate ('18 MFA Art) whose thesis exhibition has been selected to be a solo show at the Riverside Art Museum in California in February.

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and her former undergraduate student, Emily Masek, '18 BS Nutrition, together with other co-authors at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation published a report in the journal Food and Function. This report identifies the molecular antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of dietary strawberry…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published an article, "Transcendence as Hyperbole in "La Fuerza de la Sangre" in Cervantes. The article looks at author Miguel de Cervantes' exaggerated use of symbolism in the named short story as a rhetorical ploy to signal a message of worldly, rather than sublime, transcendence…