Edward Collins (Cannon Survey Center) is the recipient of the 2013 Doctoral Student Conference Grant from the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education (AABHE). He received a $1,200 cash award along with a one-year membership in AABHE and registration to its annual conference, which was held in Atlanta in February.

Jennifer Fabbi (Libraries) was chosen as one of Vegas Inc.'s "40 Under 40," a list described by Vegas Inc. as featuring some of the best and brightest business professionals in Southern Nevada.

Christina Martinez, Scott Tenney, and Leeanne Schroer-Motz (all English) received 2013 Outstanding Part-Time Instructor of the Year Awards.

Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) recently was interviewed in the Review-Journal regarding her thoughts on social media use in NASCAR. She currently is an editor for the Sport Marketing Quarterly and actively publishes in the area of sport management and sport marketing.

Erika Engstrom (Communication Studies) presented "Making Feminism Mainstream: Amy Poehler and NBC's Parks and Recreation" at the 25th annual Far West and American Culture Association conference in Las Vegas in February.

Valarie Morgan (Wilson Advising Center) has been elected Region 9 chair for the National Academic Advising Association.

Maurice Finocchiaro (Philosophy) gave a colloquium talk at the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society in February. It was titled "The Galileo Affair and the Berkeley Para-clericals." In 1633, Galileo was tried and condemned by the Inquisition for defending Copernicus' hypothesis of the earth's…

Connie Mobley (Dental School) is an invited keynote speaker at the International Association for Dental Research/American Association for Dental Research annual meeting in Seattle in March. The title of her presentation is "Nutrition and Oral Health Research Horizons: Obesity and Diabetes Prevention."

Sue Fawn Chung (History) is the co-producer of More Than a Face in the Crowd, a film that will be part of the Asian American film festival in San Francisco this month. It also will be seen at the Southwest Oral History Association Conference at UNLV in April as part of the keynote address to be delivered by Chung's co-producer Samantha Chan.