E. Michael Nussbaum (Education Psychology & Higher Education) is past president of the American Psychological Association (APA), Division 15 and recently gave the presidential address at the APA Division 15 Conference in Chicago.     

Joe Milan, Jr. (English and Black Mountain Institute) won the prestigious David K. Wong Fellowship, "a unique and generous annual award to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about East and Southeast Asia to spend a year in the UK at the University of East Anglia in Norwich." The fellowship commences in October. Milan is…

Carolyn E. Sabo (Nursing) was honored by Nevada Business Magazine at the 14th annual Healthcare Heroes Awards. She was presented with the Educator of the Year Award for Southern Nevada.  

Ann Vuong (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored an article on "Concentrations and Loadings of Organophosphate and Replacement Brominated Flame Retardants in House Dust from the Home Study During the PBDE Phase-Out" in the journal Chemosphere. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers, a class of flame retardants and endocrine disruptors,…

Aaron Saiewitz (Accounting) and co-author Elaine Wang of the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently had their paper, "Using Cultural Mindsets to Reduce Cross-National Auditor Judgment Differences," accepted to Contemporary Accounting Research, a premier accounting research journal. The research paper was supported by a grant from the Center…

Dr Karl Kingsley (Dental) and Dr. Douglas Bowen, '19 Graduate Certificate in Pediatric Dentistry, recently published their manuscript, "Screenng for Oral High-Risk Human Papillomavirus (HPV) among a Pediatric Patient Population" in the Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research.  

Karyn Holt (Nursing) presented her paper,"Assessing Faculty Development: Exceeds, Meets or Does not Yet Meet Standards," at the Annual Conference on Teaching and Learning Assessment, which took place in Philadelphia this month. Holt's main takeaway point was the importance of faculty education and training at faculty-convenient times to…

Drs. Shawna Kleban, Joshua J. Goldman, and Richard C. Baynosa (all Medicine) have written a book chapter, “Robotic Rectus Muscle Flap for Reconstruction in the Pelvis,” which appears in the new book, Advanced Techniques in Minimally Invasive and Robotic Colorectal Surgery. Baynosa is one of the pioneers in this technique and the innovative…

Art Gelis (Chemistry and Biochemistry) recently was published in Scientific Reports. His article, "Closing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle with a Simplified Minor Actinide Lanthanide Separation Process (ALSEP) and Additive Manufacturing," discusses his newly patented approach to the long-time technical challenge of recycling long-lived actinide isotopes…