Senior student Daniel Fisher (Mechanical Engineering) won the 2024 Craig F. Bohren Best Student Presentation Award, at the 2024 SPIE The Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication conference in Long Beach, California. His presentation was titled, "From Bioimaging to Artificial Anatomy: 3D Printing Biomimetic Marine Life…

Led by Zach Wallace, UNLV participated in this year's LV Corporate Challenge dodgeball tournament. The team made it through to the finals and won third place thanks to great teamwork and camaraderie on everybody's part.  Members of the team included: Zachary Wallace - team captain (Campus Recreational Services), Ashley Caoagas (Student…

Kaitlin Ploeger (Occupational Therapy) recently published a study demonstrating the effectiveness of cranial remolding for infants with plagiocephaly (head deformities). This study found effectiveness for cranial remolding for up to 18 months of age, which has implications for insurance coverage that currently covers only up to 12 months.

Professor Lori Johnson (Law) was elected to the Board of Directors of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI), the leading organization of legal writing professors. LWI supports legal writing teaching and scholarship, as well as works to improve the status of legal writing faculty nationwide.

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) recently co-authored a publication titled "Unmasking the sky: high-resolution PM2.5 prediction in Texas using machine learning techniques" in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. This study addresses the challenge of limited regulatory monitors for PM2.5 in Texas by…

Nantiya Ruan (Law) was one of eight law professors that submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the City of Grants Pass v. Johnson case, on the compelling history and context necessary for protecting the rights of unhoused people to allow them to live with dignity.

Shawn Gerstenberger, Jorge Bertran, Melissa Marshall, Courtney Coughenour, Maxim Gakh (all Environmental and Occupational Health), and Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article on "Environmental hazards and likelihood of mitigation in renter-occupied housing units in Clark County, Nevada" in the journal Housing and Society…

Hyunhwa 'Henna' Lee (Nursing) and her transdisciplinary team, including graduate students Cynthia Lee (Integrated Health Sciences), and Ye Eun Nam (Medicine), published “Association between depressive symptoms and dynamic balance among young adults in the community” in Heliyon. The team found a significant…

During the recent American Dental Education Association (ADEA) annual meeting, Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (Dental) led a seminar titled, “Facing a Public Health Crisis: Initiatives in Dental Sleep Medicine,” and Dr. Sonal Shah and Dr. Jessica Owens (also Dental) presented “Road to Residency” to dental students from around the country regarding the…