Accomplishments: School of Integrated Health Sciences

Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) was recently interviewed by insider.com and talked about the impact of nuclear fallout. His discussion was published in the science section of Insider.com and titled: "A nuclear physicist describes 7 things you probably didn't know about radioactive fallout from a nuclear bomb."  
Richard Rosenkranz, Ph.D., and Sara Rosenkranz, Ph.D., (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently published, "Holistic Framework to Contextualize Dietary Quality Assessment: A Critical Review," in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health with co-authors Jessica Phelan and Connor Phelan.
Janelle Yasukochi (Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education) and Maria Aladjova (Health Sciences) served as the conference co-chairs, representing Region 9, at the NACADA Region 8, 9, & 10 Conference: Illuminating the Path of Possibilities, recently held in Las Vegas from Feb. 27-March 1. NACADA is the professional association for Academic…
UNLV’s first Circus Research Roundtable brought together a diverse group of individuals including acrobats, trapeze artists, physicians, faculty, students, and strength and conditioning coaches to discuss ways to reduce injuries and boost performance. The wide-ranging discussion touched on areas such as the biomechanics and physiology of movements…
Elias Malek (Integrated Health Sciences), James Navalta, and Graham McGinnis (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) published a Pilot Clinical Trial in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). In this study, participants with chronic migraine exercised for a month either in the morning (before 9 a.m.) or…
Ron Brown, Frank Cucinotta, Jeffrey Cummings, and Gabriele Wulf (all Integrated Health Sciences) have been listed on Stanford University’s annual report of the top-cited researchers from across the globe based on the work completed during a single year, and throughout the person’s career. The most recent list published Oct. 10, 2022,  in PLOS…
Graduate student Elizabeth León Zaragoza, Nancy Lough (Higher Education), Michelle Samuel, and Tedd Girouard (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) have co-authored a recent article published in the Athletic Training Education Journal. The study assessed the levels of cultural competence of athletic training clinical preceptors. Results…
Krishnakumar Nangeelil, Peter Dimpfl, Zaijing Sun (all Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences), Shichun Huang (currently faculty at UTK, a former member of the department of geosciences at UNLV), and Mayir Mamtimin (Halliburton) published an article titled, "Preliminary Study on Forgery Identification of Hetian Jade with Instrumental Neutron…
Zaijing Sun and Krishnakumar Nangeelil (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) recently gave oral presentations at the 26th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry in Denton, Texas. Sun's talk is titled, "Developing a Remote Gamma Spectra Collection System for Radiation Sciences at UNLV," and…
Dean Ronald T. Brown (Health Sciences), Ph.D., has been elected as the chair of the Fellows Committee of the American Psychological Association.
Undergraduate and master's students from kinesiology, and doctoral students from interdisciplinary health sciences presented at the annual Southwest American College of Sports Medicine conference in Costa Mesa on October 28-29, 2022. Undergraduate students: Katherine Carlos, Myranda Peck, Jorge Perdomo Rodriguez, Gia Vu, Bianca Weyers; master's…
Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) and Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave recruitment presentations and answered questions about the nuclear engineering and health physics programs at the 2022 American Nuclear Society Virtual Graduate School Fair last week. UNLV was among 25 universities invited to have recruitment…