Gary Kleiger (Chemistry) participated in an international collaboration with Brenda Schulman, director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. Published this week in Nature, their article describes at atomic structural resolution how enzymes called ubiquitin ligases function in human cells. How these enzymes work is…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) coauthored an article, "Predictors in Initiating and Maintaining Nutritional Behaviors to Deal with Menopausal Symptoms Based on Multi-Theory Model," in the International Quarterly of Community Health Education in association with colleagues from Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences…

Brittani Sterling, Brittany Paloma Fiedler, and James Cheng (all Libraries) were awarded a 2020 ALA Diversity Research Grant for their project, We're Still Here at Mid-Career: The Retention of Academic Librarians of Color and Our Lived Experiences.  The ALA office for diversity, literacy, and outreach services sponsors this grant…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Oral Microbiome Interactions with Gingival Gene Expression Patterns for Apoptosis, Autophagy and Hypoxia Pathways in Progressing Periodontitis,” which appeared December 14 in Immunology.

Timothy Grigsby (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored an article on "Pandemic-Specific Factors Related to Generalized Anxiety Disorder during the Initial COVID-19 Protocols in the United States" in the journal Issues in Mental Health Nursing. The purpose for the current study is to assess the prevalence rates of generalized…

Barbara Roth and Danielle Romero (both Anthropology), along with Katelyn DiBenedetto, '15 MA, '18 PhD Anthropology, recently published "Hunting Blinds, the Bow and Arrow, and Land Use Strategies in the Mojave Desert: New Insights from Afton Canyon" in the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. This article is based on archeological…

Mary Whitehead (Student Diversity and Social Justice) facilitated a virtual presentation and dialogue on "Identifying and Disrupting Racial Microaggressions on Campus" at the Not Just a Month series for students and faculty for the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University.

Brian Jones (Hospitality) of the UNLV PGA golf management program recently received a PGA Professional Development Award from the Southwest PGA. The award is presented to a PGA professional who has made significant leadership contributions in education.

Dr. Nabil Noureddin (Medicine) published a paper, “Sex Differences in Age at Wait-List Registration for Liver Transplantation (LT) with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) as Primary Indication,” in Clinical Transplantation journal. He is the co-first author on this project that showed there is a shift in which NASH is becoming the leading…