Macy Helm (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), an undergraduate student, was the lead author on an invited critical review that examined the role of nutrition interventions in addressing the impact of menstrual hormones on hydration status and micronutrient deficiencies in female athletes. Helm was mentored by Arpita Basu…

Jennifer Kawi (Nursing), as a member of the board of the state office of minority health and equity (NOMHE), was part of an AAPI listening session titled “Fatigued & Taxed: A Listening Session about the Strain and Expectations Facing Asian American and Pacific Islander Healthcare Professionals.” The session, which took place…

Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) was invited and presented his research, "Nuclear Activation Analysis: Theory and Applications," in the INES seminar series of the department of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the talk, he discussed some recent studies conducted by the…

Dieu-My Tran, Barbara St. Pierre Schneider (both Nursing), and Graham McGinnis (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) co-authored "Circadian Rhythms in Sudden Cardiac Arrest: A Review".

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) in collaboration with researchers at the University of Colorado and the University of South Florida published a report on the dietary associations of food and nutrient intake with the development of coronary artery…

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences); Kenneth Izuora (Medicine); Jefferson Kinney, Arnold Salazar (both Brain Health); and Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) published a randomized double-blind controlled trial in Nutrients on the effects of strawberry antioxidant supplementation in adults with the metabolic syndrome. The results revealed…

Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) has been elected to the executive committee of the Education, Training, and Workforce Development Division (ETWDD) of the American Nuclear Society. His three-year term will begin June 17. The ETWDD provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the…

Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering), Artem Gelis (Chemistry), and Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave recruitment presentations and answered questions about corresponding nuclear-related programs at the 2021 ANS Virtual Student Conference last week. UNLV is among the 11 top-tier universities invited to have university…

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Du Feng (Nursing), Dr. Petar Planinic, Dr. James Alexander (both Medicine), and Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Dietary Blueberry and Soluble Fiber Supplementation Reduces Risk of Gestational Diabetes in Women with Obesity in a Randomized Controlled Trial,” which appeared in the Journal of…

Ronald T. Brown (Integrated Health Sciences) received the Joseph D. Matarazzo Award from the Association of Psychologists of Academic Health Centers (APAHC) for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in Academic Health Centers at the annual meeting of the APAHC earlier this month.

Graham McGinnis (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) received a research award sponsored by the Regional Alliance of INBRE Networks (RAIN). The title of the award is "Circadian Regulation of Inflammatory Response to PM Exposure. This award is for two years and $20,000 in direct costs. The objective of the funded project is to investigate the…

Michael Wong, Dharini Bhammar (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), along with Nicholas Ross, '20 MS Exercise Physiology,  published a paper, “Respiratory and Perceptual Responses to High-Intensity Interval Exercise in Obese Adults” in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports…