David G. Schwartz (Faculty Affairs) recently published a commentary on the CDC Gaming Reports platform detailing the significance of the 61st anniversary of the Moulin Rouge Agreement, the March 26, 1960, pact that symbolized the end of sanctioned segregation in Las Vegas casinos.

Sarah York (Chemistry & Biochemistry) has accepted a 2021 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. York's research is in chemistry education. Her dissertation research will focus on the use of systems thinking approaches to improve chemistry teaching and learning. Her advisor, MaryKay Orgill, found the…

Ashley Hairston Doughty (Art) is one of 12 design educators included in the soon-to-be released book Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators by Kelly Walters. The book collects deep personal interviews with graphic design educators of color who teach at colleges and universities across the United States and Canada.  The book centers the…

Ruben J. Garcia (Law) will moderate a panel from 4 to 5:30 p.m. April 1 titled "Labor Roots, Labor Leaders: Hispanic and Latinx Workers Show Their Strength" with Latino/a labor leaders from across the country representing the Texas AFL-CIO, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, UNITE HERE, and the Labor Council for Latin American…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a keynote presentation for the "1er. Encuentro Nacional Virtual de Investigación Educativa" (First National, Virtual Meeting on Educational Research) organized by the Escuela Normal Sierra Hidalguense (Hidalgo, Mexico). Her presentation explored possible new paths for creating philosophical "…

Brianne Heinle, Elizabeth Kahane, Kate Korgan, and Kara Wada (all Graduate College) attended the Western Association of Graduate Schools 63rd annual conference this month. They facilitated one session and conducted three presentations: Heinle, with Kristen DeBoer (Boise State University), facilitated a session that provided attendees working…

Stephen Bates (Journalism and Media Studies) has won the Goldsmith Book Prize for the best trade book about the media and democracy, awarded by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. The $5,000 prize honors his book An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That…

Karl Kingsley, Melissa Trumbo, Namgu Kim, Beanca Samiano, Matthew Marrujo. Patrick Perkins, Kevin Foote, and Katherine M. Howard (all Dental) published the manuscript "Scardovia wiggsiae and Streptococcus sobrinus Prevalence among Orthodontic and Non-Orthodontic Patients" in the current issue of the Microbiology…

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) has successfully completed the online training ''18e siècle: le combat des Lumières'' organized by Paris Lumières University/ Université Paris Lumières in Paris. She attended eight weeks of training this year and was awarded a certificate of success this month.