David G. Schwartz (Libraries) was a featured speaker on a panel called "Sports, Casinos, The Mob, and the Moolah," which was presented by the Clark County Library as part of its Mob Month program. Schwartz shared his perspectives on the histories of sports betting, organized crime, corruption, and technlogical change.

Five College of Sciences faculty exhibited posters at the UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo Jan. 29.  Gabriel Judkins (Geosciences) and Rex Suba: "Embedding Accessibility in Course Development" Elana Paladino (Sciences): "Mentoring meetings increase student performance on 'high stakes' projects in STEM" Viktoria Savatorova…

Nicole Schultz (International Gaming Institute) authored the cover story in the February issue of Global Gaming Business—a leading gaming industry publication—discussing how casinos can restructure and redesign to appeal to the millennial demographic. In particular, the article focuses on millennials and the popular casino game blackjack…

Jee Woong Park and doctoral student Sayan Sakhakarmi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) published a journal, titled "Emergency response: Effect of human detection resolution on risks during indoor mass shooting events," in the journal of Safety Science.  This work was collaborated with Park's past post doctoral…

Won-Yong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) and his co-authors' paper "Regional Integration, Multinational Enterprise Strategy and the Impact of Country‐level Risk: The Case of the EMU" was published in the British Journal of Management. This study shows that regional integration (European Monetary Union) has altered the impact of…

Jennifer J. Reed (Sociology) was interviewed for a segment on KVVU-TV, "Exploring Ecosexuality." As the ecosexual movement extends its way through the West to Las Vegas, doctoral candidate Reed shared information from her dissertation research to dispel some of the misunderstandings about the lifestyle of people who identify as ecosexuals.…

Gwen Marchand (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) was awarded $964,236 from the National Science Foundation for a grant entitled “Supporting & Sustaining Student Motivation in Science Instruction.” Science teachers identify fostering student motivation to learn as a pressing need, yet teacher professional learning programs…

Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) recently passed the National Counselor Examination and is now a Nationally Certified Counselor demonstrating her professional identity and commitment to professional counseling. 

Alona Angosta and Rhigel A. Tan (Nursing) with collaborator, Daniel Heil of Montana State University, and  graduate student, Wei Zhu, recently published an article, "The Energy Expenditure of Tinikling: A Culturally Relevant Filipino Dance," in the International Journal of Exercise Science. This article examines the energy…