Eve Hanan (Law) presented last week on two panels at the Association of American Law Schools Conference on Clinical Legal Education. Both panels addressed how to teach lawyering skills in novel and changing areas of legal practice.

Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) has a piece, "10 minutes, 1000 years," that is part of the Monuments Exhibition of photographs, paintings, wall murals, and sculptures that will be on display at the Sahara West Library through June 23. The exhibit focuses on art inspired by Nevada's three national monuments, Gold Butte, Tule Springs…

Dr. Karl Kingsley and Dr. Samuel Oh (both Dental) published a systematic review of ketamine usage for pediatric dental sedation in the May issue of Compendium for Continuing Education in Dentistry.

Hui Zhang (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and a team of UNLV biochemistry researchers recently published a paper in the journal Nature Communications. The paper is entitled “Methylated DNMT1 and E2F are Targeted for Proteolysis by L3MBTL3 and CRL4DCAF5 Ubiquitin Ligase”. Lysine-specific methylation of histones is a major epigenetic modification…

The Athletic Training Program (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) reported that 13 of this semester’s graduating students passed the National Board Exam on their first attempts. This is the seventh time in eight years the program has reported a 100 percent first-time pass rate. The students are now eligible to become certified athletic trainers.

Philip Danquah (Environmental and Occupational Health) is this year's recipient of the prestigious Michelle Chino Dissertation Scholarship awarded by the School of Community Health Sciences. The award was presented at the school's honors recognition reception in April. He also works as a graduate assistant in the registrar's office.  …

Thomas Padilla (Libraries) was recently selected as an 2018-2019 Association of Research Libraries Leadership and Career Development Fellow. The yearlong program prepares mid-career librarians from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups to take on leadership roles in their careers and in the profession at large. The ARL LCDP…

Janet Dufek and Jeffrey Eggleston (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) shared findings with Lower Extremity Review: Pediatrics from a pair of studies each led related to how walking patterns may help identify autism within children. Their comments appeared in an article titled “Autism Linked to Between-limb Asymmetries across the Gait Cycle”…

Johan Bester (Medicine) was honored by the group Immunize Nevada for his tireless work in ethics of vaccination. Bester, the school's director of bioethics and an assistant professor of family medicine, received a Silver Syringe Award during the organizations 20th annual celebration in April. His thoughtful work on the subject has received…