Jessica Immonen (Dental) Ph.D., M.S., along with Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics resident Jeremy James D.M.D. published a paper titled, "Temporomandibular Joint Osteoarthritis Exacerbates with Restored Teeth: A Cadaveric Case Report," with the assistance of second year dental students Ceanna Robinson-Wiley, Megan Melocoton, Philip…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) received a grant of $449, 611 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s “National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved” administered through the Nevada State Health and Human Services Department. He is the…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published with colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Discordance in chromosomal and self-reported sex in the UK Biobank: Implications for transgender- and intersex-inclusive data collection. We found about 200 individuals in UKBiobank with sex discordance…

Christopher Cain (Hospitality) was a panel presenter at the 3rd Annual UNLV Sports Innovation Research Summit held on April 12 at UFC Apex, Las Vegas. His presentation focused on how to create an environment where innovation flourishes through invitation, inspiration, and perspiration. In addition, Cain's team from the Harrah College of…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole and Linh Nguyen, Ph.D., MPH, (both Dental) co-authored “Gingival transcriptomic patterns of macrophage polarization during initiation, progression, and resolution of periodontitis,” which published March 24 in the journal Clinical and Experimental Immunology. Phenotypic and functional heterogeneity of macrophages is clearly a…

Shanna Kinzel, associate director of the UNLV Student Union and Conference and Event Services, a Division of Student Affairs, was awarded the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) Values Award during the annual conference in Boston, Massachusetts. The ACUI Values Award is presented to college union professionals who uphold the ACUI…

Darcy Del Bosque and Lateka Grays (both Libraries) have been selected as the recipients of the Libraries' 2023 Spring Inspirational Customer Service Award. They were nominated for providing excellent customer service to library patrons in a variety of ways through their role in expanding the creative activity and reach of Lied Library's Makerspace…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Mediation Analysis of Conspiratorial Thinking and Anti-Expert Sentiments on Vaccine Willingness," in Health Psychology, along with 120 coauthors. This article analyzes a survey across 137 countries and 40 languages (n = 15740) on political trust and vaccine…

Sharolyn D. Pollard-Durodola (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and Jorge E. Gonzalez (University of Houston) recently published, "Content Literacy: Integrating Social Studies and Language," as part of the Handbook on the Science of Early Literacy.