College of Education doctoral students and faculty Jenna Weglarz-Ward, Kendra Cope, Michela Carattini, and Marissa Rakos (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented at the Council for Exceptional Children's 2024 Annual Convention and Expo March 13-17 in San Antonio, Texas. Cope, Carattini, and Rakos presented as session…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Mental health promotion by medical students: An untapped potential” for UJMS: UCMS Journal of Medical Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal published by his alma mater, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India. The article discusses the role…

Congratulations to the 20 faculty, staff and students who competed for UNLV in Corporate Challenge for Track & Field! The team earned 4th place overall at the event on Saturday, March 11, contributing 4 points to UNLV's Corporate Challenge score. Together, they earned 37 individual medals (19 of them gold!) competing in 47 events. Thank you to…

Michelle Tusan's (History) book, "The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East" won the 2023/2024 PCCBS Best Book Prize.

Kara Christensen Pacella and graduate student Lidia Wossen (both Psychology) with colleague Kelsey Hagan from Virginia Commonwealth University recently published, "Low Overlap and High Heterogeneity Across Common Measures of Eating Disorder Pathology: A Content Analysis" in Assessment. In their paper, they find that common eating disorder measures…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), as a member of the GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators published a meta-analysis "Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by cataract: a meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020" in the journal Eye. This study found that the number of people blind and with moderate to severe…

Michael Green (History) has been appointed to a three-year term on the Nevada Awards and Honor Selection Board. This group will choose the annual recipients of a new, legislatively-mandated honor, the Nevada Medal of Distinction.

Rocky Rockstraw (Nursing) recently published a book chapter titled, "Essentials of Debriefing and Feedback," in the book Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Nursing published by. Springer. Rockstraw's chapter delves into the fundamental principles of debriefing and feedback in health care simulation with various debriefing models, techniques…

Rowena Saba (Medicine) and Rocky Rockstraw (Nursing) recently published a book chapter titled, "Simulation Operations," in the book Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Nursing published by Springer. Saba's and Rockstraw's chapter delves on the operational aspects of health care simulation, such as simulation center management, equipment and…