Students Oscar Toro and Deanna Chea (both Medicine) won first place for their poster, “Digital Determinants: How Internet Access Connects Nevada,” at the Nevada Psychiatric Association business meeting held at the Paris Hotel and Casino on Feb. 16, 2024.

Robert Rakosi, Lexi Davis, Kavita Batra, Henry Krasner, Jordon Miller, Sukanta Maitra, Douglas Fraser, and Allison McNickle (all Medicine) presented their study "CT vs. MRI C-Spine Imaging for C-spine clearance in obtunded patients with low-energy trauma mechanisms," at the 19th Annual Academic Surgical Congress held in Washington, D.C. The…

Gregory Brown. Kavita Batra,  Emily Dorin, Raveena Bakhru, Andrew Han, Arianna Palermini, Robert Sottile, Sherine Khanbijian (all Medicine) were invited to present findings of their recently published study, "Comparing AIT and EFT in the reduction of negative emotions associated with a past memory: A Randomized Controlled Trial," in the 61th…

Angela Silvestri-Elmore, Kayla Sullivan, Esmeralda Clark, Jennifer Pfannes, Natalie Spitler, Necole Leland, Kathi Thimsen, Roseann Colosimo, and Janelle Willis (all Nursing) published an article in the Journal of Nursing Education and Practice titled, "Creation of a holistic admissions review process: A promising change designed to promote…

Members of Alpha Epsilon Delta, the American Medical Student Association, Project Wellness, and other UNLV students participated in assembling hygiene and health kits for the unhoused. In all, 20 students participated in this project, resulting in 153 kits that will be given to the unhoused. Next week, the kits will be delivered to local Las Vegas…

Holmes Scholar Anel Rojas (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), presented her research, "Cultivating Success: Unraveling Community Cultural Wealth and Impact in the Latino Youth Leadership Conference (LYLC)," at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) in Aurora, Colorado. Her research…

Darnelle Melvin, Andre Hulet, and Cory K. Lampert (all Libraries) had a paper, "WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Framework for Wikidata Graph Exploration and Visualization," published in the Proceedings of the Wikidata Workshop 2023, held in conjunction with the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference. 

Holmes Scholars Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Adjoa Mensah (Teaching and Learning) presented their research "An Expectancy Value Theory Approach to Understanding Science Teacher’s Persistence" at the AACTE Annual 2024 conference, supported by Tina Vo and her NSF-funded grant.…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Effectiveness of pyriproxyfen-pyrethroid and chlorfenapyr-pyrethroid long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) compared with pyrethroid-only LLINs for malaria control in the third year post-distribution: a secondary analysis of a cluster-randomised controlled trial…