Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) presented a paper at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation's annual institute. His paper addressed the ethical obligations for lawyers serving on corporate boards. The institute peer-reviews all submissions and publishes them.

Chelsea Heinbach (Libraries) recently presented at the Library Instruction West 2018 conference at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction. Her presentation was "Checklists Are Not Enough: Exploring Emotional Intelligence as Information Literacy."

Daniel Bubb (Honors) earlier this month joined a panel of experts at National Park Service's (NPS) offices in Boulder City to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Boeing B-29 "Superfortress" that crashed in Lake Mead during a missile avoidance system high- and low-altitude test. All five crew members miraculously survived the crash. The two…

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Math) spoke on "The Shadows of Science and Vigyan" in the mathematics department of his alma mater, Panjab University, in Chandigarh, India. This invited talk was organized by the Chandigarh Vigyan Parishad (Science Council), and also sponsored by the Chandigarh chapter of the Indian National Academy of Sciences. Bhatnagar…

Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Gene Expression Analysis of Neuropeptides in Oral Mucosa During Periodontal Disease in Nonhuman Primates,” which appeared during April on PubMed ahead of print in the Journal of Periodontology, the official journal of the American Academy of Periodontology. The study concluded anti-inflammatory neuropeptides…

Rebecca Gill (Women's Research Institute of Nevada and Political Science) and a team of political scientists from around the country, Nadia Brown (Purdue), Jennifer Merolla (University of California, Riverside), Melissa Michelson (Menlo College), Elizabeth Sharrow (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Patricia Stapleton (Worcester Polytechnic…

Dr. Neamat Hassan Abubakr Hassan (Dental Medicine) co-authored and served as corresponding author for “Patient–dentist Relationship and Dental Anxiety among Young Sudanese Adult Patients,” which showed that relationships might be an important target for improving the delivery and standards of oral health among dentally anxious patients in the…

Fatemeh Azari (Mechanical Engineering) has been selected as the recipient of an American Society of Mechanical Engineers Engineering Scholarship. The competition for the scholarship is rigorous. Azari, a junior, previously has received 10 scholarships at the local, state, and national levels.

Arya Udry (Geoscience) and coauthors’ paper, “Formation of Evolved Rocks at Gale Crater by Crystal Fractionation and Implications for Mars Crustal Composition” recently was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets. This paper focuses on the formation of the rare Martian rocks measured by the rover Curiosity at Gale Crater on Mars…