Dr. Christina Demopoulos and Marcia Ditmyer (both Dental) co-authored the study “Bridging the HPV Knowledge Gap,” which addresses the association between human papillomavirus and oral cancer, as well as the responsibility of oral health professionals to educate their patients about the connection. The findings appeared in the June issue of…

Danny Young (Physical Therapy) presented the successes of his Center on Health Services Training and Research (CoHSTAR) fellowship to the organization’s executive and advisory boards; he was the only faculty fellow selected to provide this report. Young also presented the study he co-authored, “Does Patient Mobility Predict Value-Based Outcomes in…

Valarie Burke and Katelyn DiBenedetto (both Graduate College) on behalf of the UNLV chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, have been awarded a literacy grant from Phi Kappa Phi. The grant will be used for Project Transforming Tomorrow, an afterschool program aimed at providing greater access to information about higher education to high school students in…

Daniel Gerrity (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), Brett Levner (Film) and a group of students collaborated to create a short documentary about water conservation and reuse in Southern Nevada. Their project was funded by a grant from the the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program…

Forty undergraduates recently were awarded scholarships through the office of undergraduate research's summer undergraduate research funding (OUR SURF) program. These scholarships support undergraduate research, scholarship, entrepreneurial, performance, or visual art projects in the summer months. A total of $39,000 in funding was…

Susan VanBeuge (Nursing) has been accepted to the American Association of Colleges of Nurses’ Leadership for Academic Nursing Program. The structured professional development experience, which has prepared future deans and other top administrators for more than 15 years, includes assessment and evaluation of leadership skills, identification of…

Stephen Brown (Economics) and co-author, Hillard Huntington of Stanford University have had their paper "OPEC and World Oil Security" accepted for publication in Energy Policy, a top journal in the industry. The publication date has not been determined.

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) presented his research on George Frideric Handel's oratorio Joseph and His Brethren at the prestigious Hallische Händel-Festspiele (Halle Handel Festival). Each year, an international group of Handel specialists gathers in Halle, the city of the composer's birth, to share research on a given theme. This year's…

Stephanie Vega (Business), along with Claudia Andracki, '17 MBA, won the grand prize in the 2017 Dominic Anthony Marrocco Southern Nevada Business Plan Competition for their Aftaz Growing Systems . The competition, which offers $50,000 in cash and prizes, wrapped up June 9 after more than a month of competition that included executive summaries,…