Michelle Tusan (History) started her two-year term as president of the North American Conference on British Studies.

Professor Benjamin Edwards (Law) co-authored an op-ed, "Long overdue, FINRA's expungement reforms are still inadequate," for Financial Planning, which argues that reforms to the FINRA process for expunging complaints against brokers will not work. 

Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) has been awarded a certificate for completing "Building Capacity to Advance Health Certificate Pilot Program" on November 14, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia, as the participant for the inaugural cohort. The program is offered by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) as an 8-week…

Asma Awan; Siddharth Raich; Laurencia Bonsu; Miklo Alcala; Priyambda Kumra; Ana Daniela Gonzalez; Md. Sohail Akhter; Refat Srejon; Abena Owusu; Susan Dakwa; Blessing Imade; and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), presented their poster, "Planning a Quality Improvement Community-Based Participatory Evaluation of Public Health Disparity…

Carrie Coppa (Physics and Astronomy) was nominated for and recently graduated the Administrative Academy Academy Path C.  The UNLV Administrative Assistant Academy is a training series designed to foster a culture of continuous improvement for all administrative assistants. The eight-week program outlines six competencies that UNLV…

Cheryl Abbate's (Philosophy) sixth Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, titled “The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Way of Life or Religion?" (co-hosted by The Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School & The Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF), is now published by CAF and available to watch here. 

The Utah Tech University Humanities Center recently interviewed Jarret Keene (English) to discuss his new dystopian adventure novel Hammer of the Dogs, the genius of comics legend Jack Kirby, and the challenges of being a writer in the digital age. Listen to the podcast episode here. Hammer of the Dogs is available wherever books are sold.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced the Phase I winners of 19 teams for Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP). The UNLV team from the Active Materials and Smart Living (AMSL) laboratory, led by Ph.D. mechanical engineering student Nazanin Minaian, was selected as one of the 19 winners. Professors Alexandrea…

Kaelia Saniatan (graduate student), Cristina Hernandez, and Gabriela Buccini  (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented at the 2023 APHA Conference on Nov. 14. Their presentation titled "Mapping of Community Nurturing Care Services for maternal-child health and nutrition" was part of the Community Health Planning and Policy…