David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's Ombuds Office. The post explains the rationale behind the office's partnership with the Graduate College, Stand Together Against Academic Bullying. It also suggests a few steps for confronting academic bullying.  For more information about…

James Navalta, Dustin Davis (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and collaborator Whitley Stone from Western Kentucky University published an article entitled, "Implications for cisgender female underrepresentation, small sample sizes, and misgendering in sport and exercise science research." The paper appears in PLOS ONE, and describes why…

Xue (Cher) Xing (Teaching and Learning) won the Nevada ACTE Postsecondary Professional of the Year Award. Award winners may advance to the Region V (western states) competition, and if they win there, may advance to the national Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) competition in 2024.The ACTE Excellence Awards recognize…

Jeffrey Martin, Henry Krasner, Crysty-Ann Olaco, Kavita Batra and Dale Netski (all Medicine) along with Nicolette Harmon (Public Health) co-published an abstract of their upcoming study, "Community Level Correlates of COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Hesitancy in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Analysis," in Proceedings of the 1st International…

Mana Azizsoltani (Hospitality) was awarded a $5,000 research grant from the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling. The grant will fund a comprehensive study that seeks to assess the measurement invariance of the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI), which is one of the key diagnosis tools for problem gambling. 

Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine) and a team of researchers at UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine have been analyzing crash, injury, and non-adjudicated citation data for over a decade to inform prevention and policy initiatives. Findings are published in quarterly TREND newsletters. The information provides a deeper understanding of risk-taking…

Professor Joe Regalia (Law) gave a presentation on advanced generative AI for the Nevada Bar entitled, "AI & The Law: Unpacking Generative Intelligence."

Minkyo Lee (Intercollegiate and Professional Sport Management) earned the Best Paper Award at the 2023 Sport Entertainment & Venues Tomorrow (SEVT) conference held in Columbia, South Carolina. Lee led the study titled, "Building a university brand through intercollegiate athlete programs: A comparison of eSport and sport' in collaboration with…

Darnelle Melvin (Libraries) presented a paper and poster, "WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Framework for Wikidata Graph Exploration and Visualization," at the 4th Wikidata Workshop co-located with the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2023) in Athens Greece. The paper was co-authored by Cory Lampert and Andre Hulet (both…