Qing Wu (Community Health Sciences and Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) recently was awarded a $448,313 research grant from the National Institutes of Health. The funding will support a project titled "Developing Model-Based Bone Density Reference Values for African-American Women."

Dr. Karl Kingsley and Adam Whiteley (both Dental) published the research article "Scardovia Wiggsiae Prevalence among Adult and Pediatric Orthodontic and Non-Orthodontic Patient Populations" in the Journal of Medical Discovery in September.  

Allison Slaughter  (Social Work) has been awarded a fellowship via the Council on Social Work Education's Minority Fellowship Program-Youth. The master's level fellowship is designed to enhance the cultural competency of social work students. Recipients must be committed to providing mental health services to at-risk children,…

Joanne Goodwin (History) has been elected to the position of secretary for the National  Collaborative for Women's History Sites. The organization's mission is to promote the preservation and interpretation of sites and locales that bear witness to women's participation in American life. Most recently the organization won National…

Edward Lynch (Dental) and dentist Ahmed Mohamed published  “Stem Cell Engineered Implant Dentistry — the Future of Implant Dentistry” in Stomatological Disease and Science in July. Clinical complications are associated with dental implants, such as gingival recession, gingival inflammation, crestal bone loss and inflammation of surrounding…

Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) and Jeff Shuter are co-authors of a book chapter titled, "The Ethics of Sensory Ethnography" in the book Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts, edited by Michael Zimmer and Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda. The book is published by Peter Lang. 

Drs. John Varras, Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj, Aditi Singh, Ranjit Makar, and Laura Culley (all Medicine) received awards from the Nevada chapter of the American College of Physicians at its October meeting. All work in the School of Medicine's department of internal medicine. Department chair Varras received the Mentorship Award. Program director Wahi-…

Ben Edwards (Law) presented an annual update on securities law developments at the annual meeting of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association.

Dr. Ovunc Bardakcioglu (Medicine) recently performed a breakthrough surgical procedure using a new robotic device that required no incision through the skin, significantly shortened recovery time, and lessened the chances of infection. He used the remote-controlled device to remove potentially cancerous lesions from a patient's colon. Typical…