Francisco Sy (Environmental & Occupational Health) has been appointed as a member to the Public Health Advisory Board (PHAB) by the Southern Nevada District Board of Health. This appointment is effective July 1 and is a two-year term. The PHAB advises the Board of Health on matters related to local public health planning and policy. …

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) participated in The World in Film program hosted by the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) from University of California, Berkeley. Sandoval-Cervantes discussed the film Guie'dani's Navel  (El ombligo de Guie'dani) in the context of Mexican Indigenous politics,…

Annie S. Hong, Kyaw Min Tun, Jenny M. Hong, Kavita Batra, and Gordon Ohning (all Medicine) published a study, "Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Decompensated Cirrhosis: A Systematic Review on Safety and Efficacy," in the Journal Antibiotics. To authors' knowledge, this is the first systematic review investigating safety and efficacy of…

William Bauer (History, American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, and American Indian Alliance), presented a paper, "Pit River Activism and California Economic Development, 1953-1980," at the annual conference of the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States in Edinburgh, Scotland.  He discussed how members of the Pit River…

Francine J. Lipman (Law) is the author of a recent interdisciplinary publication, "Tax Audits, Economics, and Racism," which was published on June 20 with Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. While you may assume tax laws and tax administration are colorblind, the article demonstrates that this is simply not the case.Lipman…

Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) was interviewed about the Your Public Breastfeeding Rights Explained. In the interview, she discusses the importance of normalizing breastfeeding in public, tips for breastfeeding in public, and what to do if a negative interaction happens.      

Mark Buttner, Patricia Cruz, Elizabeth Detrick, and Jessica Gunter (all Environmental & Occupational Health), and Steven Medley (The George Washington University) co-authored an article, "Evaluation of Two Surface Sampling Methods for the Detection of Bacillus Atrophaeus Aerosolized in a Test Chamber" in the Journal of Microbiological Methods…

Hyunhwa 'Henna' Lee (Nursing) published "Oxytocin Receptor Gene, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Dissociation in a Community Sample of European American Women" in the BJPsych Open journal, with her collaborators at the University of Michigan. Based on the quantitative trait gene association tests of an NIH-funded project’s data (R01…

Ravisha Bai, Kavita Batra, and Kenneth Izuora (all Medicine) along with Charmaine Yap (VA Southern Nevada Health Care System) presented a poster, "Diabetes-related Outcomes Following the Use of Basal-bolus Insulin vs. Premixed Insulin in a VA Population with Type 2 Diabetes: A Retrospective Chart Review" at the Endocrine Society Annual Meeting,…