The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced the Phase I winners of 19 teams for Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP). The UNLV team from the Active Materials and Smart Living (AMSL) laboratory, led by Ph.D. mechanical engineering student Nazanin Minaian, was selected as one of the 19 winners. Professors Alexandrea…

Kaelia Saniatan (graduate student), Cristina Hernandez, and Gabriela Buccini  (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented at the 2023 APHA Conference on Nov. 14. Their presentation titled "Mapping of Community Nurturing Care Services for maternal-child health and nutrition" was part of the Community Health Planning and Policy…

Keishmer Cardoso and Rebecca Dunnes (both graduate students), and Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) presented at the 2023 APHA Conference on Nov. 14. Their oral presentation titled, "The diffusion of programa criança feliz: Understanding the municipal factors and characteristics of Brazil's largest early childhood development…

Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine) was installed as second vice-president of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) during a convocation ceremony in October. Kuhls is a professor and acute care surgery chief, as well as associate dean of research for the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. With 88,000 members worldwide, the ACS is considered by…

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published an article titled, "Gaining Voice through Injury: Voice and Corporeality in Animal Rights Activism in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico," in the academic journal Cultural Anthropology. The article explores the relationship between non-human animals and "voice" in animal rights/well-being activism in Ciudad…

Mark Lenker (Libraries) interviewed UNLV colleague and middle-school friend Jarret Keene (English) for EcoTheo Review. In "Taking a Hammer to Las Vegas," the two discussed the characters, themes, and Las Vegas environments of Keene's new dystopian novel Hammer of the Dogs, published by the University of Nevada Press and available everywhere books…

Timothy Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored a poster with colleagues from the University of Southern California and California State University Northridge titled, "The association between familial incarceration, external assets, and bullying behaviors among a sample of diverse rural and urban adolescents." The poster was presented…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Feminism and the Open Borders Debate" at the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto.

Cristina Hernandez and Gabriela Buccini (both Social and Behavioral Health) and colleagues presented at the 2023 APHA on Nov. 13. Their presentation titled, “Overcoming data collection barriers within historically marginalized communities through meaningful community engagement efforts,” was part of the Combining Social Justice within Public…