Professor Jeff Stempel (Law) traveled to Zurch, Switzerland, to work on with the Drafting Committee of the Project Group for the Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law on Volume II of the Principles. 

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and colleague published an article titled, "Leading Virtual Schools: Unique Challenges, Activities, and Preparation Needs of Virtual School Principals" in the American Journal of Distance Education. This article examines how virtual school principals reported supporting…

The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) was awarded the Nevada Commission on Mentoring (NCOM) FY 2024-25 Micro-grant for the project, "Expanding Research Peer Mentorship in non-STEM Academic Disciplines.” The funds, acquired by Rafael Oganesyan, OUR Program Manager and PI, will be used to support OUR’s Peer Mentor Program.  OUR’s…

Payal Sharma (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) published a paper in MIT Sloan Management Review titled, "How to Come Back Stronger From Organizational Trauma." This was written in the aftermath of the campus shooting. It can be downloaded from the university library's database.

Vaida Kazlauskaite (Couple and Family Therapy Program) and co-authors from the University of Minnesota: Lisa Kaler, Yiting Li, Tai Mendenhall, Sue Wick, and Soyoul Song published their articled entitled "I Just Feel Overwhelmed" Overall Stress, Course-Related Stress, and Stress Management Among First-Generation and International Students at a…

John "Skip" Crooker, Christina Drum, Qingmin Shi, Ashley Guyer, Kanikka Wofford, and Joy Mariscal (all Decision Support) recently delivered three presentations at the annual Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Forum. One presentation, co-presented by Drum, Wofford, and Mariscal, titled "Collaborative Efforts to Build…

John Curry (History) acted as an Early Table Leader for the College Board's Advanced Placement World History: Modern examination in Kansas City, Missouri. The exam was taken by over 400,000 high school students around the country. Having helped to design this year's exams, he worked with the leadership of the College Board to set the scoring…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented "Assessing COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index - Applications of Novel Approaches Using Social Condition Data in Spatiotemporal Analyses" at the 33rd South Region Statistics Conference, jointly held with the 2024 Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics Annual Meeting and Academic…

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) received the Community Faculty of the Year award from the UNLV Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology (ENT) during their residents graduation dinner. The award is for recognition and appreciation of significant contributions in ENT resident education. During her two years working with the department…