Abegail Reyes (Health Sciences Advising Center) wrote the state’s first Healthcare Associated Infection report, which has been published on the state of Nevada’s website. The report compares health care associated infection data from 30 Nevada hospitals during 2014 to the United States during the same year, and to the reduction targets set…

Takashi Yamashita (Sociology) and Jay Shen (Health Care Administration and Policy) recently published an article, "Neighborhood Effects on the Nursing Home Admissions among Older Patients in the State of Nevada, USA: Multilevel Analysis of Administrative and Census Data," in the Nevada Journal of Public Health.   

Forty-five members of the campus community have been announced by the Graduate College as winners of the 2017-20 Top Tier Doctoral Graduate Research Assistant (TTDGRA) grant competition.  The approximate value of the program is $800,000 per year for three years, or approximately $2.4 million dollars. It is also worth noting…

Holly Godden, Tara Wong and Emily Warren (Wellness Promotion) were selected out of hundreds of applications to present "Balancing Your Wellness Wheel: How Peer Educators Create Comprehensive Wellness Programs" at the BACCHUS Initiatives of NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) Conference in Kansas…

Patricia Gatlin (Nursing) received an $8,400 research grant from Nevada Obstetrical Charity Clinic Foundation for a study titled  “Healthy Pregnancy through Exercise and Nutrition (H-Pen Study).” The study aims to implement and test the feasibility and efficacy of an individualized lifestyle intervention program (H-PEN) designed to…

Scott Abella (Life Sciences) recently gave a talk titled, "National Park Treasures: Celebrating Conservation" at the Lake Mead Visitor Center. He shared the stories of conservation challenges and successes of the National Park Service restoration efforts during the past 100 years. His work as a researcher has supported Lake Mead and…

The UNLV film department hosted its annual 48-Hour filmmaking challenge Nov. 18-20. The event was open to the public and brought UNLV Film students, alumni and local filmmakers together in a race against the clock, forcing them to write, shoot and edit five-minute short films in just 48 hours. The teams drew from a collection of prompts —…

Frank van Breukelen (Life Science) has received a four-year National Science Foundation research grant totaling $797,810 to study hibernation in tenrecs.  Tenrecs are esoteric mammals from Madagascar that have a unique form of hibernation. These animals are able to hibernate or maintain active body temperatures from at least 12-28 °C. His…

Steve Rowland (Geoscience) and a team of undergraduate students from the College of Sciences recently announced the discovery of fossilized reptile footprints northeast of Las Vegas that are 60 million years older than the earliest dinosaurs. Rowland presented the work in October at a meeting of the Society of Vertebrate…