Soumya Upadhyay (Healthcare Administration) recently presented two papers, "Structural Characteristics and Patient Safety Culture: Do Teamwork and Handoffs Have a Mediating Role?' and "Hospital-Physician Financial Integration and Patient Safety Outcomes, " at the Healthcare Management Division at the 78th Academy of Management meeting in…

Mary D. Wammack (History) discusses nuclear weapons testing in Nevada in the latest episode of Back Story with the American History Guys. The episode, "In the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud" will air on NPR stations that carry Back Story and at @BackStoryRadio.

Ken Peffers (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) and co-author Tuure Tuunanen from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland recently published "Population Targeted Requirements Acquisition" in the European Journal of Information Systems.

James Navalta, Jeffrey Montes, Nathaniel Bodell, Charli Aguilar, Ana Lujan, Gabriela Guzman, and Brandi Kam (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with faculty from Southern Utah University (Jacob Manning, Mark DeBeliso), recently published a manuscript titled "Validity of Wearable Devices in Determining Step Count in Hiking and Trail…

Vivek Sah (Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies) recently presented "Bubble Trouble - Deja Vu? Then (2006) vs Now (2018)" to the Greater Las Vegas Area Realtors Trends Committee. The presentation focused on the state of the housing market in Las Vegas.

Drs. Christine Ancajas, Edward Herschaft, William Leavitt, Ronald Lemon, Robert Lockhart, James Mah, George McAlpine, Daniel Orr II, Victoria Woo, and Wendy Woodall (all Dental) have all been named by Desert Companion magazine to its “Top Dentists 2018” list. Also listed by the magazine were eight part-time instructors and five volunteers. This…

Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) during the summer presented at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) photography group in Geneva, Switzerland, on the topic of Las Vegas and UNLV initiatives to document urban and public lands in Southern Nevada. This is the third year that he has presented updates on these ongoing…

Kirk Silvernail (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) recently presented his paper, "Do We Treat Ourselves Fairly? The Fairness of Academic Freedom and Faculty Governance Worldwide" at the 78th annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Chicago.

Ruben J. Garcia (Law) has been appointed to a project based at the Harvard Law School labor and worklife program titled "Rebalancing Political and Economic Power: A Clean Slate for the Future of Labor Law."  The project began with a convening of law professors, labor attorneys, and organizers at Harvard Law School in July.…