Judd Harbin (Student Affairs Strategic Planning and Assessment) presented as a panelist on a webinar with Nicole Long (University of Delaware), Ciji Anne Heiser (Western Michigan University), and Joe Levy (National Louis University) last month. This webinar, "Assessment Myths: Shattering Misconceptions," addressed common myths…

Donovan Conley (Communication Studies) and Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) published article, "Black Mirror, Mediated Affect and the Political," for a special issue of Culture, Theory, and Critique devoted to the theme, "Intensities: Affect, Encounter, and Social Change." This publication comes out of a small conference at the…

School Psychology Faculty (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) currently are attending and presenting at the 2019 National Association of School Psychologists annual convention in Atlanta. UNLV's program is the only school psychology program offered in Nevada and features a cultural ecological model of training.  

Gabriele Wulf (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences) is the 2019 visiting professor in simulation-based education at the Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center in Rochester, Minnesota. She will give a grand rounds presentation on how to optimize procedural and motor skill learning, facilitate a workshop, and engage in one-on-one…

The School of Dental Medicine received one of Nevada Medical Center’s inaugural Eric M. Hilton Healthcare Collaboration awards, which recognizes organizations that find actionable and timely solutions for the state’s most pressing health care needs, with a particular focus on preventative care. The school earned the recognition for its community…

John Mercer and Andre Craig-Jones (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with alumna Kendell Galor, ’18 MS Kinesiology, and Kenji Masumoto from Kyushu University, Japan, co-authored "Metabolic Costs During Backward Running with Body Weight Support," which published in the February issue of the International Journal of Sports Medicine.…

Lacey Rahmig (Dental) accepted an invitation to return for a fourth consecutive year to the advisory board of the state’s dental sciences program, which provides high school students with first-hand looks at becoming dental assistants, hygienists, and dentists. First available during 2008 at Southwest Career and Technical Academy, the program has…

Emily Lapworth, Sarah Jones, and Marina Georgieva (all Libraries) were published in the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies. The article, "Microfilm, Manuscripts, and Photographs: A Case Study Comparing Three Large-Scale Digitization Projects," is a case study comparing three large-scale digitization project undertake by the University…

Lung-Chang Chien (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored and published a paper, "Association of Organic Solvents and Occupational Noise on Hearing Loss and Tinnitus among Adults in the U.S., 1999–2004" in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. This study examined the association of organic…