Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) recently was selected as Distinguished Alumnus-Academia by the agricultural leadership, and community education department in the College of Agricultural Life Sciences at Virginia Tech. He obtained his doctorate in agricultural science education at Virginia Tech in 1984.

Payal Sharma (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology), along with co-author Rachel Strum, recently had a paper, "Becoming Powerful at Work," accepted by Organizational Dynamics, Special Issue on Power and Politics in Organizations. 

Boo Shan Tseng (Life Sciences) received an NIH/NV-INBRE Developmental Research Project (DRP) award to study how Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterial pathogen that causes lung infections in immuno-compromised humans, forms antibiotic-resistant aggregates. The DRP award is for up to two years and a total amount of $223,000. 

Vanessa Nuñez (Sociology) has been recognized by the prestigious Ford Foundation with a dissertation fellowship honorable mention. She is a doctoral candidate.

Lawrence "Lars" R. Walker (Life Sciences) recently published a book, Comparative Plant Succession among Terrestrial Biomes of the World, which provides a comparative approach to plant succession among all terrestrial biomes and disturbances, helping to reveal generalizable patterns.  The Ecology, Biodiversity, and Conservation series presents…

Cory Rusinek (Chemistry) received an NIH/NV-INBRE Developmental Research Project (DRP) award. This NV INBRE DRP will use diamond microelectrodes for the detection of analytes associated with oxidative stress. In the long-term, this research hopes to lead to fundamental understanding of the role of oxidative stress at the cellular level and…

Michael Nussbaum and LeAnn G. Putney (both of Educational Psychology and Higher Education) have published an article on "Learning to Use Benefit-Cost Arguments: A Microgenetic Study of Argument-Counterargument Integration in an Undergraduate Seminar Course" in the Journal of Educational Psychology. This microgenetic case study explores…

Wendy Kveck (Art) has an interview online at The Art People podcast. She discusses her growth and development as a painter, performance artist, sculptor, and educator in Las Vegas with podcast host Justin Favela, '14 BA Art. Her work involves collaboration, found photographs, and non-traditional materials such as cake frosting…

Lung-Chang Chien, Max Gakh, and Courtney Coughenour (all Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article on "Temporal Trend of Research Related to Gun Violence from 1981 to 2018 in the United States: A Bibliometric Analysis" in the journal Injury Epidemiology.  This study aimed to evaluate the variation in gun violence…