Amanda Morgan (Social and Behavioral Health) has acquired the credential of Master Certified Health Educational Specialist (MCHES) given by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing. The MCHES® designation signifies that an individual has met required academic eligibility with courses in health education and has met experience…

Andrea Wirth and Christina Miskey (both Libraries) presented their poster, "Recipe to Gauge Success: Using Repository Data to Assess a Faculty Bibliography," at ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois.

Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with GBD 2021 Diabetes Collaborators, published a study, "Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021," in the Lancet journal. With an Impact Factor of 202·731 (2021 …

Dr. Hassan Ziada and Dr. Neamat Hassan (both Dental) presented at the 101st General Session & Exhibition of the International Association of Dental Research, the 9th Meeting of the Latin American Region, and the 12th World Congress on Preventive Dentistry meeting, held in Bogota, Colombia, from June 20-24. Ziada's presentation was in…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with researchers from India, SriLanka, and Towson University (USA) published a study, "Effect of addition of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (Tio2NP) on the antimicrobial properties, surface roughness and surface hardness of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA): A Systematic Review," in the F1000 journal. This…

Amalie Alver, Kavita Batra, and Kenneth Izuora (all Medicine), along with Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), published their study, "Food Diary Completion Does Not Significantly Impact Glycemic Control in an Observational Single-Institution Pilot Study of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus," in Cureus.

Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies Program; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave a public lecture at the Clark County Public Library, titled, "A History of Juneteenth: From Galveston, TX to Las Vegas, NV" on June 23, 2023, for the annual Juneteenth celebrations in Southern Nevada. Additionally, Parry…

Sophie Ahmad, Rafae Nauman, Kavita Batra, Kenneth Izuora (all Medicine), along with Ashok Gupta from Desert Radiology, presented their study, "Relationship between bone loss and oral health among post-menopausal women with or without diabetes," at the Endocrine Society Annual Conference, 2023 held in Chicago, Illinois. Ahmad and Nauman are the…

Gregory Brown, M.D., (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health; Medicine) just published "Advanced Integrative Therapy: Origins, Research, Theory and Practice" with co-authors Elizabeth Pace and Tabatha Bird Weaver in the Energy Psychology Journal, Volume 15:1, May 2023.