Jessica Grifaldo (Life Sciences), a first-generation Latina graduate student, was awarded a National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP). Grifaldo and her mentor Eduardo Robleto will study how bacterial cells control the expression of genes conferring the ability to swim, an adaptive behavior to escape environmental…

Recently, Research.com has ranked professor Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) #180 in the Best Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Scientists in the United States for 2023. The ranking is based on Discipline H-index metric.

Adjunct faculty and alumna Lisa Ortega (Architecture) wrote Bill AB131, which calls for the state to have an Urban and Community Forestry program.  It has passed Assembly, and is on its way to the Senate for consideration.  Read more about the Bill on the State legislature website or at the Reno Gazette Journal.…

Samantha Godbey (Libraries) is the recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Library Faculty Service Award. Godbey is active in service and leadership opportunities both nationally and at UNLV. She served as the Libraries’ senior senator on the UNLV Faculty Senate, vice-chair and chair of the Association of College & Research Libraries’ Education and…

Katherine Walker (English) published an article titled, "Horatio in Pieces, Or, How to Deal with Ghosts," in the journal Shakespeare. The article looks at Horatio's strategies for navigation the occult and supernatural in Shakespeare's Hamlet. 

Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article titled, "Racial Disparity in Disruption to Basic Needs Among Medicare Beneficiaries During the COVID-19 Pandemic," in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA). The authors' primary objective was to…

Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) presented a paper titled, “Application of an RQFSM model (reach, quality, fidelity, satisfaction, management) for community-based participatory evaluation of public health initiatives,” at the Cukurova 10th International Scientific Research…

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) recorded a selection of specially recorded texts based on the anthology The Doomsday Poetry: Chronicles (2022) for the Time of War International conference at Princeton University. 

Dr. Robin Weltman and Jessica Immonen, Ph.D., (both Dental Medicine) co-authored, “The Significance of Mylohyoid Muscle Release (MMR) in the Vertical and Horizontal Ridge Augmentation Surgeries; Clinical and Human Cadaver Analyses of the Techniques,” which published February 26 in the journal Genes. The study reviewed, analyzed, and discussed…