Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research) attended the annual NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) PI meeting that was held at the National Science Foundation Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, on May 15-16, 2023.  The mission of NSF EPSCoR is to enhance the research competitiveness of targeted jurisdictions (…

Dr. Marc J. Kahn, dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and Paul J. Hauptman, dean of the UNR school of Medicine recently co-authored an editorial in STAT News detailing the need for more graduate education spots (residencies and fellowships) in order to help solve Nevada's physician shortage problem.

Steven Payne (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published "A comparison of paired- and multiple-stimulus-without-replacement preference assessments to identify reinforcers for dog behavior" in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, the flagship journal of the field of behavior analysis, along with his…

Ozgur Ozdemir (Hospitality), Ezgi Erkmen (Bogazici University), and Wenjia Han (Purdue University Fort Wayne) have published a recent article titled, "EPU and financial performance in the hospitality and tourism industry: Moderating effect of CSR, institutional ownership and cash holding," in Tourism Management. This study examines the…

A spring 2023 BUS103 class, taught by John Starkey (Business), achieved remarkable success by raising a total of $5,001 to support six deserving local non-profits across the Las Vegas Valley. The following organizations were supported through this first-year seminar service learning project: Rubies LV, Nevada SPCA, Healing Hearts, Nevada…

Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research) co-organized and co-chaired a workshop for the Virtual Summit of the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU) on May 15, 2023. The session, titled The HSRU Potential for Increasing the Impact of Undergraduate Research on Hispanic Students’ Readiness for Success in Graduate School, was one…

Daniella Etel Courban (Fine Arts), part-time instructor, participated in a robust round-table discussion on the state of art in downtown Las Vegas and beyond. This aired live on KNPR's State of Nevada on May 15, 2023. 

An Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) Foundation grant for $100,000 was awarded to Jingchun Chen and her lab in the Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine on March 1, 2023, to study the impact of COVID-19 on Alzheimer's Disease, focusing on sharing genes and pathways in immune cells. This will help with the investigation of the…

Boran Kim, Jungsun (Sunny) Kim, Ashok Singh, Mehmet Erdem (all Hospitality) and Andrew Hardin (Business) have published their study titled, "Factors Predicting Hotel Recommendations: A Comparison of Guest Feedback Before and After the Hotel Closures During the COVID-19 Pandemic," in the International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism…