Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by the Academia Sinica in Taiwan to have a talk on June 21, titled "How the Large Language Model (LLM) may help advance quantitative studies" In this talk, Wang shared the recent development of ChatGPT and Copilot and explained the advantage and limitation of their advanced data analysis…

LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented a session on diversifying the leadership pipeline for minority leaders at the 2nd Annual Voices for Equity Conference. Montoya's presentation focused on the crucial need for systemic changes within educational institutions to support and advance…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on informed informality, his blog that considers people, organizations, conflict, and culture, among other things. The post begins by considering what an installation at the Whitney Biennial can tell us about failures in communication, and ends with lessons learned from a 1948 children's book…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) was interviewed by KTNV Channel 13 about "Vets reminding pet owners about heartworm risks as more mosquitoes show up across Southern Nevada."  Messenger explains that in the last few years, Las Vegas has seen a massive uptick in mosquitoes, partially due to the weather.  The…

Joshua Coleman (History), Ph.D. candidate, presented a paper titled "Jicarilla Apache, Project Gasbuggy, and the Early Years of Fracking in Indian Country" at the annual conference of the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States at the University of Southampton, in Southampton, England. Coleman's research examined the connections between…

Analiesa Delgado (History), a Ph.D. candidate, presented a paper titled "Escaping the Shadows: 'Runaways,' Kinship, and Community Building at the Greenville Indian School" at the annual conference of the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States at the University of Southhampton, in Southampton, England. Delgado's research used the story…

Ranjani Murali (Life Sciences), in collaboration with researchers from Caltech, is the lead author of a groundbreaking new study that found many more bacteria produce greenhouse gases than previously thought. The research team discovered a new class of enzymes that enable various bacteria to use nitrate as a substitute for oxygen in low-…

Lynn Comella (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed by the Boston Globe about the new Sexual Entertainment and Economies Collection in UNLV Special Collections and Archives. UNLV is joining with Harvard's Schlesinger Library, Cornell, the University of Toronto, and the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University in documenting…

Randy Reichenfeld (Radiography), a PTI and MR technologist, will be giving this year's MR Safety Week presentation for the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT). Chad Hensley, director of UNLV's radiography program, gave the safety presentation during last year's annual meeting, marking the second year in a row that a…