Elena Farfel, Karl Kingsley (both Dental) and recent DMD graduates Cody Buhler, Scott Parker and Haley Whalen recently published "Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester (CAPE) Effects on Dental Pulp Stem Cell (DPSC) Proliferation and Viability" in the journal EC Dental Science.

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology Leadership and Higher Education) coauthored the book chapter "Efforts to Prevent Mass Shootings in Schools: The Practice, the Costs, and Superintendents’ Experiences with Arming School Personnel" in the book Reclaiming Local Control through Superintendents, School Boards, and Community Activism. The…

Lisa Nicholas (Nursing) successfully defended her doctoral dissertation to earn her ED.D from the University of Saint Augustine for Health Sciences. Her dissertation topic was "Foundational Skills before Clinical: Building Early Confidence in Novice Nursing Students."

Armin Esmaeilzadeh, Jorge Ramón Fonseca Cacho, Kazem Taghva, Mina Esmail Zadeh Nojoo Kambar, and Mahdi Hajiali (all Computer Science) have written "Building Wikipedia N-grams with Apache Spark," that was presented in SAI 2022: Intelligent Computing and published by Springer.

Samuel Lee (Hospitality) was recognized with the Best Presentation award for his virtual presentation of the research study "Utilizing the Free Association Method and Netnography to Expose Hotel Guests' Technostress" along with his co-authors, Mehmet Erdem, Billy Bai, Chih-Chien Chen (all Hospitality), Eda Anlamlier (Lee Business) and…

Joe Lema (Hospitality) and his co-authors recently were awarded Journal Article of the Year 2021 in the top journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. The article was  "Classification of Senior Tourists According to Personality Traits." Board members of the Asia Pacific Tourism Association presented the award at their 2022 conference…

Asma Awan (Social & Behavioral Health) has been selected as a Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) Leaders in Equity & Diversity (LEAD) Fellow.  The LEAD Fellowship creates a pathway to increase diversity in health education leadership among SOPHE's membership. Fellows will learn best practices in leadership…

Jinyoung Kim (Nursing) received the COBRE Pilot Project Award by NIH National Institute of General Medical Service for her study, "Tolerance to Shift Work and Its Potential Impact on Cognitive Function." This P20 mentored award through UNLV is intended to support basic and translational pilot projects in genomics and personalized medicine that…

Maria Aladjova (Health Sciences), Elizabeth Johnson, Sheetal Survase (both Academic Success Center), Kevin McVay (College of Sciences), Janelle Yasukochi (Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education), John Starkey, Stephen Sumnner, Tashauna Stewart, Jason Kantrowitz, and Beth Gersten (all Lee Business) all are part of the UNLV…