Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) recently was interviewed for the "City Cast Las Vegas" podcast. In the interview, she discusses why the recent formula shortage had put infants in a food insecurity situation and explains how this connects to the U.S. breastfeeding policies. 

Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (Dental) co-presented “Why Does Sleep Matter?” during a student workshop of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine’s 30th anniversary meeting. She provided a brief overview of normal sleep, discussed the anatomy and physiology of obstructive sleep apnea, and explained the co-morbid implications of untreated obstructive…

Dr. Jo-Lawrence Martinez Bigcas (Medicine) was recently a guest speaker at Advancements and Innovations in Surgery: OMFS, ENT, Head and Neck, & Facial Plastics, an international multidisciplinary conference in San Diego. He represented the UNLV's robust head and neck oncologic surgery program with his presentation, "Advancements and…

Won-Yong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) and his co-authors have been chosen as the winners of the Best Paper Award in Strategy Division at the 2022 Annual Conference: ASAC (Administrative Sciences Association of Canada). They presented a research paper, "What's Inside the Mind of a CEO? The Effects of Discretionary Slack…

Shawn Gerstenberger (Public Health) and Max Gakh (Environmental & Occupational Health) were recently recognized among Southern Nevada Health District's 2022 Public Health Heroes. The Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) defines a public health hero as an individual or organization that embodies one or more of the essential functions of…

Federick Ngo and Juanita Hinojosa (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a study on the impact of expanding state financial aid resources to undocumented community college students. Titled "Broadened Possibilities: Undocumented Community College Student Course Enrollment After the California DREAM Act," the study…

Sadia Shaukat (Education), a visiting Fulbright Scholar, was chosen to participate in the inaugural Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) Inquiry Initiative. The initiative is a first-of-its-kind three-year collaborative inquiry for professional educators (scholars and practitioners) from multiple settings, with varying inquiry and pedagogical…

Dr. Tina Brandon Abbatangelo (Dental) has been accepted to the 2022-23 UNLV President’s Fellows Program, which is a leadership development initiative that enables faculty members to acquire high-level administrative experience while working on strategic initiatives of interest to the central university leadership. The program intends to…

Kristin Steffen (Medicine) received the Outstanding Part-time Instructor award from the UNLV School of Public Health in April. The senior director of faculty affairs and interim director of continuing medical education at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, she teaches the Public Health Fundamentals for Health Care Leaders course in the…