Professor Ruben J. Garcia (Law) was featured on the Fox 5 Vegas channel on the "Ask the Experts" segment to discuss the strides made by labor nationally and locally in 2023 with the UAW, Writers Guild, SAG, and local Culinary Union all negotiating historic deals with their industries.

Gio Lee, Justin Vo, and Neamat Hassan (all Dental) recently published their study, "Shear Bond Strength of Different Types of Cement Used for Bonding Band and Loop Space Maintainer," in the Open Journal of Stomatology.

Dean Smith (Nevada Extreme Conditions Laboratory) was awarded an NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-4 fellowship totaling $219,228 over 2024 and 2025. The fellowship will primarily fund frequent travel for Smith and a student to perform experiments in the University of California Berkeley College of Chemistry, where they will…

Paul W. Werth (History), together with colleague Charlotte Henze (University of Basel), has secured grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and a special research fund at the University Basel for a workshop on Russia's borders, sovereignty, and territoriality, to be held in mountain retreat near the Swiss-Italian border in June…

Whitney Elks, Allison McNickle, Matthew Kelecy, Kavita Batra, Shirley Wong, Shawn Wang, Lisa Angotti, Deborah Kuhls, Charles St. Hill, Syed Saquib, Paul Chestovich, and Douglas Fraser (all Medicine) published a study, "Early versus late feeding after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy placement in trauma and burn," in the Journal of Surgical…

Director of Communications Karyn S. Hollingsworth (Liberal Arts) won a 2023 Pinnacle Award from the Public Relations Society of America's Las Vegas Valley Chapter. She was recognized for her news story, "UNLV, Community Partners Receive $4 Million in Grants to Expand Mental Health Services." 

Salman Mohamed, Kavita Batra, Nicole Pang, Elliot Runge, and Mutsumi John Kioka (all Medicine) published a study, "A prospective study on the precision of height data from electronic medical records in tidal volume calculation for lung-protective ventilation," in the Medicine journal. 

Whitney Elks, Spencer Schulte, Kavita Batra, and Jocelyn Burke (all Medicine) along with Adam Rooks and Varun Jain (University of Kentucky College of Medicine) published a protocol manuscript of their study, "Resistance Training in Patients After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: Protocol for a Systematic Review," in the JMIR Research…

Sai Kosaraju and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) published internationally collaborative research titled, "Evidential deep learning for trustworthy prediction of enzyme commission number," in Briefings in Bioinformatics (IF: 9.5). This is a product of the four-year long project in collaboration with Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) and…