Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (Dental) accepted an appointment to serve as vice chair of the Academic Dental Sleep Medicine Council Steering Committee. Her one-year term begins in May. The American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine is the leading national organization representing dentists who treat sleep-disordered breathing, which includes obstructive sleep…

Anthony King, Ting Tong, Danielle Le, Donna Sim, Aimy Paulsen, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) recently presented their grant-funded research, "Associations Between Problem Gambling and Other Problematic Behavioral Patterns in Nevadan College Students," at the 15th Annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling at the Suncoast…

Jaewon Lim and Aaron Colletta (both Public Policy and Leadership) recently published an article in the Annals of Regional Science with a co-author, Ayoung Kim of Mississippi State University. In their article, "How Regional Economic Structure Matters in the Era of COVID-19: Resilience Capacity of U.S. States," they analyzed the…

Jason Steffen (Physics and Astronomy) was the lead organizer for a major international conference on Exoplanets (planets that orbit distant stars). The conference took place the M Resort in Henderson, and brought together more than 500 scientists from around the world for a week of scientific talks, discussions, and collaboration.

Vivek Sah and Shawn McCoy (both Economics), along with their co-author Luis Lopez from University of Illinois, Chicago have had their paper, "Steering Consumers to Lenders in Residential Real Estate Markets" accepted at Real Estate Economics, the top real estate journal with an impact factor of 3.41. The journal is recognized as "A-" in the Lee…

Francis A. Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) wrote  "Flying Without a Net: Space Radiation Cancer Risk Predictions without a Gamma-ray Basis," which appeared in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (Impact Factor =5.9). For the first time cancer risk predictions are made independent of human epidemiology data from…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently joined the Nevada Public Health Association (NPHA) Executive Board as a statewide secretary. The NPHA serves as the voice for achieving equitable health outcomes in Nevada. 

Lisa Johnson (Anthropology) presented "Multivocality of an Ancient Maya City: Archaeology, Tourism and Indigenous Landscapes of Palenque, Mexico" at the Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium.

Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) co-presented “Role of Dental Providers in HPV Vaccination and Oropharyngeal Cancer Prevention” during the National Oral Health Conference, which is the annual joint meeting for the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors and the American Association of Public Health Dentistry. One of the study’s key…