Each year during the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium, OUR recognizes and honors UNLV undergraduate researchers who demonstrate and exemplify excellence in research. OUR awards one undergraduate researcher in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (AHS) and one undergraduate researcher in Health and…

Each year during the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium, OUR recognizes and honors UNLV faculty members with a record of excellence in inspiring, influencing, supporting, and mentoring undergraduate researchers in their professional development, career training, and educational journey. OUR awards one…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health), along with researchers from Desert Research Institute, University of California, Riverside, and California Air Resources Board,  recently published an article, "Evidence of non-tailpipe emission contributions to PM2.5 and PM10 near southern California highways…

Jessica Habashy, Stephen D. Benning, Brenna N. Renn (all Psychology), Elizabeth M. Lawrence (Sociology), and Shane W. Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Psychometric properties of the eating disorder examination questionnaire: Factor analysis and measurement invariance by race/ethnicity and gender," in Eating…

Kyaw Min Tun, , Mark Hsu, Kavita Batra, Chun-Han Lo, Tooba Laeeq, Tanhe Vongsavath, Salman Mohammed, and Annie S. Hong (all Medicine), published an article, "Efficacy and Safety of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infection among Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," in the journal…

Andrew Kauffman's (World Languages and Cultures) translation of Shen Congwen's 1932 short story titled, "The Doctor," is forthcoming in the autumn issue (no. 98) of the Chinese literary translation magazine Renditions.

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) was interviewed for the New Books Network about his recently published book, Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration (University of Texas Press 2022). Based on nearly two years observing and interviewing migrants from the rural Oaxacan town of Santa Ana Zegache. Many…

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) just published, "Taking Peirce's Graphs Seriously," in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies. The work is a critical review of Logic of the Future, a multi-volume compilation of Charles Sanders Peirce's writings on logical graphs and notation.

Kennedy Wharton (Engineering) is the recipient of the Leading by Example Award for being a returning peer mentor who went above and beyond to serve mentees and fellow peer mentors in the Peer Mentoring program. The program is part of the First-Year Experience under the office of vice provost for undergraduate education.