Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) was an invited speaker at the 2024 Southwest Regional Meeting of the Society of Developmental Biology. Her talk was titled "Eyeing Regrowth: Mechanisms Regulating Retinal Repair During Development." She presented her research group's findings on the mechanisms regulating eye stem cells and regeneration. Group…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) was a coauthor among the GBD 2021 Demographics Collaborators for the article titled, “Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: A…

Kasra Ghaharian (International Gaming Institute) delivered a keynote presentation at the Sustainable Gambling Conference in London, UK, on Wednesday, March 20. Ghaharian spoke about AI ethics in the gambling sector and what the industry can do to promote the responsible and safe use.  The Sustainable Gambling Conference aims to facilitate a…

The latest edition of Gaming & Leisure Magazine features an article by associate professor Bill Werner, J.D. (Hospitality). His article, "The Summer of Strikes: When Will It End?" (pg. 46-48) explores the lingering work stoppages in the hospitality industry following a long and tumultuous summer in which actors, writers, and auto workers…

The University Police Services Southern Command is pleased to announce the recent graduation of assistant director Tod Miller from the School of Police Staff and Command (SPSC) at Northwestern University. Miller has successfully completed the 22-week Staff and Command program held in Evanston, Illinois. This program, which was …

Kavita Batra (Medicine) has been recently invited to serve the editorial board of journal Scientific Reports. This journal  is the 5th most-cited journal in the world, with more than 738,000 citations in 2022. Batra holds prestigious positions in several peer-reviewed journals, including Annals of Epidemiology, Psychiatric Case Reports,…

Sales and marketing coordinator Taylor Cayro (Student Union and Event Services) presented at the 44th Annual ACCED-I Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, on "The Power of Why," a presentation that showcased how through Simon Sinek's Golden Circle and James Clear's Atomic Habits, the SUES Sales & Marketing team was able to develop the brand…

Jenna Weglarz-Ward and Melissa Yarczower (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with Cyndy Anang (UNLV Alum 2023, Nevada State University) and Maryssa Mitsch (UNLV Alum 2017, San Francisco State University), and Jessica Branch (Murray State University) published an article in the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher…

Barbara Roth and Ph.D. candidate Danielle Romero (both Anthropology) published "Children in Mimbres Pithouse Society" in Kiva: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History 90:1-21.