Siddharth Raich, Asma Awan, Miklo Alcala, Priyambda Kumra,  Anita Chatterjee, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented an oral presentation entitled, "Utilizing community-based participatory research based on the RQFSM model for evaluating health disparity reduction efforts in rural Nevada, 2021-2022," at the Rural…

Professor Diana Eden (Film), who teaches costume design, will be speaking at the Clark County Library at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 1 as part of its Las Vegas Stories series.  Eden first came through Las Vegas by train in 1961, stopping in the downtown station for a brief 30 minutes, time in which the just turned 21 years old, and was able to…

Ravisha Bai (Internal Medicine, Endocrinology), Kavita Batra (Medical Education), Charmaine Yap (Internal Medicine, Endocrinology) Kenneth Izuora (Internal Medicine, Endocrinology) (all Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine) co-authored an article titled, “Diabetes-related outcomes with basal-bolus vs. premixed insulin among veterans with type 2…

Reimund Serafica (lead author) and Lorraine Evangelista (both Nursing), and Timothy Grigsby (Public Health) and Bradley Donohue (Psychology) co-authored an article, "Occupational Stress: A Concept Analysis with Implications for Immigrant Workers' Mental Health in the United States." The paper conceptually examined occupational stress among…

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Peter Wiens (Teaching and Learning) presented their research titled, “Developing Teacher Leadership Course Content: The Experiences of Teachers, Instructional Coaches, and Administrators,“ at the 2023 Annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference.…

Aidy Weeks (Libraries) is the co-author of an article, "Shannon D. Jones, MLS, MED, AHIP, FMLA, Medical Library Association President, 2022-2023," published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association. Weeks is an assistant professor within UNLV Libraries and director of the School of Medicine Library serving the Kirk Kerkorian…

Carlos S. Dimas (History) was an invited speaker to the University of California, Irvine's (UCI) Global Forum to give a talk, "Political Debate and Medical Uncertainty in the Age of Pandemics and Epidemics" The event was sponsored by UCI's Global Studies Department, Center for Medical Humanities, and Center for Latin American and Caribbean…

Aldo Barrita, Kristin Hixson, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology), Anjala Krishen (Business) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Centering the Margins: A Moderation Study Examining Cisgender Privilege Among LGBTQ+ BIPoC College Students Facing Intersectional Microaggressions," in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender…

The Oral History Research Center (Libraries) received a $10,000 donation from the NV Energy Foundation to support Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American & Pacific Islander Oral History Project.