Shane Kraus, Kaelyn Griffin, Bailey Way, Todd Jennings (all Psychology) and colleagues published six papers this summer.  The first paper (Predictors of compulsive sexual behavior among treatment-seeking women) was published in Sexual Medicine. The second paper (The Holistic Recovery Capital in Gambling Disorder Index: A pilot study) was…

Alexis Hilts and Ariyon Schreiber (both Medicine) published "A Clinical Case of COVID-19 Vaccine-Associated Guillain Barre Syndrome" in the American Journal of Case Reports.  

Ahmed Gill, Omar Al-Taweel, Dalia Hawwass, Chowdhury Ahsan (all Medicine) and colleagues presented three posters to the European Society of Cardiology Congress. Their presentations were titled, "Transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with a concomitant aortic aneurysm," "Short-term outcomes of patients transferred from non-acute care…

UNLV alumna Meg Moorman will be inducted into the National League for Nursing's Academy of Nurse Educators (ANEF). Meg graduated with her Ph.D. in Nursing from UNLV in 2013. She is currently the director of the Faculty Innovating for Nursing Education Center and coordinator of the MSN in Nursing Education at Indiana University School of Nursing.

Cory Rusinek (Chemistry and Biochemistry) was awarded $315,000 from Batelle Savannah River Alliance, LLC for his project titled, "Long-term monitoring of pertechnetate and other radionuclides in groundwater using passive sampling and a novel electrochemical sensor." The funding comes from the Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program…

Hikmet Loe (Art) published an article on Aug. 16 in the Southwest Contemporary titled, "Land Art Diary: Utah's Earthworks Feel the Heat of Climate Change." 

David Schwartz (Ombuds) published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's Ombuds Office. The post, titled "A New Way to Grow: Feedforward," describes Schwartz's recent encounter with Marshall Goldsmith's improvement exercise, explains the concept, and discusses how it is now available to UNLV employees. For more information…

Alexandrea Washington (Mechanical Engineering), with Zakai Olsen, Ji Su, and Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering), published "A physics-based modeling of a hydraulically amplified electrostatic actuator," in the Journal of Physics Communications. 

Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) was the senior author for a chapter in the textbook, "Blood Substitutes and Oxygen Biotherapeutics," published by Springer Nature. His chapter was titled, "Platelet Substitutes."