News: School of Integrated Health Sciences
![Solar Decathlon house](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/Metal%20Fidgits-1_0.jpg?itok=4eKsQSgv)
Overall competition winner to be announced on Saturday.
![A self-sufficient home sits in the desert.](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/SinatraLiving.jpg?itok=jKKpzRmu)
Voting for the Solar Decathlon People's Choice Award is open, and UNLV's team needs your support.
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Through a new faculty-student mentorship program, a team of UNLV researchers is exploring how this piece of gear might help children with autism.
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UNLV dietitian Samantha Coogan on the pros and cons of organic vs. gluten-free, avoiding the afternoon sugar or caffeine crash, and making healthy options fun.
![Portrait of Janice Pluth](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D71701_007.jpg?itok=SDpubNxF)
A happy meal toy proved to be a good luck charm for this health physics & diagnostic sciences professor in her NASA endeavors.
UNLV team readying its aging-in-place home for the prestigious Solar Decathlon competition.
![Kayla Bland, a participant in UNLV's Journey program examining a microscope slide.](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/D71660_05.jpg?itok=8lnWvXZZ)
UNLV is a host site for the federally-funded Journey program, which puts Native American and other minority high school students interested in health research into college labs.
![Masai Takahashi helps a player off the field](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/main_Takahashi.jpg?itok=PzJsHz4v)
UNLV's athletic training program grads make it to the big leagues.
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The Mountain West Clinical Translational Research Infrastructure Network helps 13 universities support the faculty and research that will improve human health in seven states.
![Kinesiology professor Brach Poston](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D70916_12%20copy%20reduced.jpg?itok=Xg1rIwaS)
Brach Poston's research on electrical stimulation shows promise for Parkinson's patients.
![Frank Cucinotta](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/nc_D69369_07.jpg?itok=l7KaH06D)
New predictive model shows radiation from cosmic rays extends from damaged to otherwise healthy “bystander” cells, effectively doubling cancer risk.
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From professional reasons to personal connections, faculty across campus share why they’re fond of certain works they penned.