Dr. Linh Nguyen (Dental) is a former infectious disease epidemiologist for the Southern Nevada Health District. She is a member of a dedicated team at UMC and has been analyzing COVID-19 test swabs since late May. The UMC COVID-19 testing laboratories have the capacity to conduct 10,000 tests…
Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (Dental) accepted an invitation by the University of Mosul College of Dentistry in Iraq to present “Adult Sleep Disordered Breathing: The Role of the Dentist” during a webinar July 9.
Dr. Antonina Capurro, Dr. Civon Gewelber, Shelley Williams, and Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (all Dental) co-authored a poster, "Relationship between Plasma CRP and Fibrinogen Measured Using Dried Blood Samples and Vascular Complications in Type 2 Diabetes," that was presented during the American…
Dieu-My T. Tran and Angela Sojobi (both Nursing) co-authored a new publication "Review of the Scientific Literature on Young Adults Related to Cardiovascular Disease Intervention." Sojobi is a graduate student.
Caryll Batt Dziedziak (WRIN and History) has been awarded the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA), having made outstanding levels of contributions to SOHA for many years. She was instrumental in establishing the institutional home for SOHA at UNLV in…
Dr. Lily T. Garcia (Dental) authored an editorial,“The ACP Parameters of Care,” that appeared in the July issue of the Journal of Prosthodontists. She also co-authored “The Changing Role of Dental School Deans,” which appeared in the spring issue of the “Journal of the American College of…
Kristen Grunerud (Nursing) earned her doctoral status after successfully defending her doctor of nursing practice (DNP) project. Her project was titled, ""An Intervention to Increase Nurses’ Knowledge of Non-Opioid Pain Management in Post-Operative Elective Knee and Hip Replacement Patients".
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) was interviewed for the Wisdom at Work podcast about her work in public and academic philosophy, including her Philosophy for Children outreach in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
Jenna Heath (Liberal Arts) presented at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrator (NASPA) Student Success in Higher Education Conference earlier this month. The conference provided those committed to student success from across diverse universities…
Marta Soligo (Sociology, International Gaming Institute) and David Dickens (Sociology) published an article in Tourism Culture & Communication about the increasing frequency of tourist visitation to "Hollywood memorial parks," which host the graves of some of the most…
Jay J. Shen, Sfurti Rathi, Kalyn Frost (Healthcare), Catherine Dingley (Nursing), Ji Won Yoo (Medicine), and Soo Kyong Kim (Journalism & Media Studies), along Hee-Taik Kang, a past visiting scholar in the School of Public Health, published a study on "Sociocultural Factors Associated…
Erika Gisela Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) wrote "Revisiting Naya Rivera's Santana Lopez: The Afro-Latina who Deserved More Time," for peer-reviewed online Latinx media outlet Latinx Spaces. In it, she discusses the significance of Rivera's Santana Lopez from Glee in the…