Dagmawit Teka and Francisco Sy (both Environmental and Occupational Health) presented "Career Advancement and Faculty Retention of Mountain West Clinical and Translational Research Infrastructure Pilot Grant Awardees" at the 9th Biennial National IDeA Symposium for Biomedical Research Excellence, June 17-19, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

Lorraine Evangelista, Joseph Guerrero Lopez, and Francisco Sy (all Environmental and Occupational Health) and Reimund Serafica (Nursing) received the first-place award for the "Best Overall Scientific Poster" out of 517 posters presented at the 9th Biennial National IDeA Symposium on Biomedical Research Excellence', June 17-19, 2024, in Washington…

Lorraine Evangelista, Joseph Guerrero Lopez, and Francisco Sy (all Environmental and Occupational Health) and Reimund Serafica (Nursing) presented "Promoting Community Engagement and Capacity-Building to Address Health Disparities in Diverse Communities: Experiences of a Community Engagement and Outreach Team" at the 9th Biennial National IDeA…

Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was interviewed by Las Vegas Review-Journal on "Mosquitoes species 'exploded all over the valley': What can the health district do?" Cross along with colleagues from the PARAVEC Laboratory talk about how they are currently raising mosquitoes for insecticide testing. The results will be sent to the…

A co-authored paper by Andrew Lugg (Political Science), "The Politics of International Peace and Security: Introducing a New Dataset on the Creation of United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Bodies," was recently published in International Studies Quarterly. The paper examines newly collected data on the creation of "subsidiary bodies" by…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with  Fern J. Webb (University of Florida), Jagdish Khubchandani (New Mexico State University), Srikanta Banerjee (Walden University) and Joyce Balls -Berry (Washington University) published a study, "Acculturation, readiness to change, and body mass index among African American Women: A community-based study…

Andrew Lugg (Political Science) recently presented his co-authored paper, "Connecting Regimes: Preferential Trade Agreements and the Management of the Intellectual Property Rights Regime," at the plenary session of the 16th Annual Political Economy of International Organizations (PEIO) conference in Stockholm, Sweden. The paper develops a theory…

Forth year student Gemma Lagasca (Medicine) will work with the Las Vegas Raiders, performing a one-month clinical rotation focused on primary care sports medicine. For the second year in a row, the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine is participating in the NFL's Diversity in Sports Medicine Pipeline initiative. These rotations…

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) published an article on "Prescription Painkiller Misuse in Hispanic and non-Hispanic Adults Ages 50 and Older: Trends and Correlates in a National Sample, 2015-2019…