Rebecca Gill (Political Science) and her colleagues, Nadia Brown (Purdue), Libby Sharrow (UMASS), Stella Rouse (U of Maryland), and the #MeTooPoliSci Collective, have been given the the 2019 Jane Mansbridge Award for service to women in the discipline of political science by the Women's Caucus for Political Science.

Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology)  was quoted in an article in USA Today  titled "Endless Fear: Undocumented Immigrants Grapple with Anxiety, Depression Under Trump."

Mark Buttner and Patricia Cruz (both Environmental and Occupational Health) received a 10-month, $1 million award through the Nevada department of health and human services to conduct molecular microbiological environmental monitoring.

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) has published the single-author article "The Myth of Polarization among Taiwanese Voters: The Missing Middle" on Journal of East Asian Studies. This article analyzes the history and current development of the political polarization in Taiwan, and the importance of non-partisans to understanding Taiwan…

Barb Brents (Sociology) co-authored the article "EXPOsing Men’s Gender Role Attitudes as Porn Superfans," which recently was published in Sociological Forum. The authors found that pornography fans were no less supportive of gender equality than the population as a whole and actually more supportive on a couple of questions. The results are…

Janis McKay (Music) performed as principal bassoonist for the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria. A gala concert featuring the Mozart "Requiem" and Haydn's "Symphony No. 104" was held in the Schloss Esterhazy, where the composer Haydn lived and worked for much of his career. Performances of Haydn's "Harmonie Mass" were given in…

Richard Dohme, William Newman, Paul Velez, Manual Sigarroa, Ghessan Istefan, Stephanie Loffredo, William Singletary, Diane Cowgill, Mark Sakurada, and Adriana Miranda (all Police Services) recently received Exemplary Service Awards from Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo for their work during the mass shooting that occurred in Las Vegas on Oct.…

Emily Salisbury (Criminal Justice) has been appointed by Gov. Steve Sisolak to serve a two-year term as a member of the Nevada Sentencing Commission. The commission is responsible for advising the Legislature on proposed legislation and make recommendations with respect to all matters relating to the elements of Nevada's criminal justice system…

Jared Lau, Ching-Chen Chen (both Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services), and Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching & Learning), along with Yi-Wen Su of the University of Florida, recently published their article, "Using a Collaborative Model in Supervision With International Counseling Students" in the Journal of Humanistic…