Jacob Altholz, MD, (Medicine) has been elected vice speaker of the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA). EMRA, founded in 1974, is the oldest and largest resident organization in the world and takes on the mission to be "the voice of emergency medicine physicians-in-training and the future of our specialty."
Kevin McVay, M.Ed. and Huston Green (both Sciences) recently co-presented a case study poster at the 2023 NACADA Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. Their poster was titled, "Increasing Efficiency: A Case Study on Advising Technological Enhancement."
Katherine Feather and Healther Dahl (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) co-authored an article, “‘I Don’t Think There’s a Cookie-Cutter Way of Working With People With Autism’: Mothers of Children With Autism and Their Experiences With Counseling Services,“ in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling …
Katherine Feather (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) received the Publication Award from the Western Association of Counselor Education and Supervision. This award was given at the 2023 Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Conference to recognize a significant published work related to…
Katherine Feather (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) and colleagues co-authored an article, "Parents’ and service providers’ perspectives of services for autism in the rural region of Northern Arizona,” in the Journal of Rural Mental Health. 
Dr. Nate Hollister (Medicine), John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Scott McDonald of Magnum Opus organized the second Circus Performance Research Roundtable on Oct. 13. UNLV Sports Innovation and Magnum Opus, a Southern Nevada research group, hosted this roundtable for UNLV faculty, students (undergraduate, M.S., and…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Detection of insecticide resistance markers in Anopheles funestus from the Democratic Republic of the Congo using a targeted amplicon sequencing panel" in the journal Scientific Reports. Vector control strategies have been successful in reducing the number…
Andrew Kauffman (World Languages and Cultures) chaired a panel and presented a paper at the 2023 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention in Denver, CO. His paper was titled, "Representations of Aging and Old Age in Zhou Daxin's The Sky Darkens Slowly." 
Jesse Fager-Larsen (The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West, Political Science) attended the 23rd annual Public Policy Leadership Conference (PPLC) held at the Harvard Kennedy School campus. During the conference, attendees meet with professors, attend mock graduate-level courses, and learn about career and funding opportunities in public…

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