Courtney Coughenour, Jennifer Pharr, Maxim Gakh, Sheila Clark, and Prescott Cheong (all Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published "A Qualitative Study on Parental and Community Stakeholder Views of the Link between Full-Day Kindergarten and Health in Southern Nevada" in the journal Children. Cheong is an '18 alumnus of…

Asma Tahir (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Joseph Jean (Master of Public Health student) recently presented their work, "Annual Variation Among Tree Pollen in Las Vegas from 2015-2018" during the 2019 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology conference Feb. 22-24 in San Fancisco.  The study was published in the Journal…

Ashley Yuill, assistant director of the Jean Nidetch Women's Center presented "Supporting Our Clients: A trauma-informed approach to healthcare" at the UNLV Annual Inter-Professional Education Day. The day-long event provided students from various professional schools with group interactions to encourage collaborative, positive patient…

Kathryn Houk (Libraries) was selected as a 2019-20 Rising Star by the Medical Library Association. The Rising Star program is a year-long development initiative that matches participants with a mentor and gives them the opportunity to develop skills, knowledge, and personal characteristics needed to become a leader in…

Mellanye Lackey (Libraries) recently was elected to the Medical Library Association Nominating Committee. This committee creates a slate of nominees for MLA president-elect and board of director positions each year. She will assume office at the MLA 2019 conference in Chicago this June. She works in the Health Sciences Library.

Eda Anlamlier (Marketing and International Business) presented at the 2019 American Marketing Association Winter Academic Conference in Austin, Texas, in February,. Her co-authored research (Lez Trujillo Torres, University of Illinois at Chicago; Laetitia Mimoun, City, University of London; Lagnajita Chatterjee,…

Jennifer R. Pharr, Axenya Kachen and Chad Cross (all Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article in the Journal of Community Health on "Health Disparities Among Sexual Gender Minority Women in the United States: A Population-Based Study." The purpose of the study was to understand disparities in access to…

Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) published an op-ed in The Hill addressing the need for the House Financial Services Committee to question the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about its strategic plans for advancing consumer protection.  The op-ed was with Christopher Odinet, an associate professor of law and the Univeristy of Oklahoma College…

Lucas Graff (Office of Student Conduct) and Janna Bernstein (Service Learning and Leadership) recently presented their work, "Community in a Borderland: A Case Study of How Pet-owners Experience Community in a Gentrifying Neighborhood" at the 22nd Annual American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences conference at the Flamingo.