Patrick Moore and Matthew Shepard (both Film) received an Emmy Award from the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for their short documentary, Splashing the Streets. Moore and Shepard, who are undergraduates, won for writing in the student craft category. The documentary was produced in collaboration…

Wonyong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) and his colleagues recently presented at the International Association for Business and Society Conference in Hong Kong. 

Starr Hoffman and James Cheng (both Libraries) received an Academic Library Impact Research Grant from the Association of College Research Libraries (ACRL) for a project titled “Researchers on Academic Library Impact: Characteristics and Perspectives.” The research project, building on interviews with library and higher educational professionals…

Linda H. Edwards (Law) received the Legal Writing Institute's (LWI) Teresa Godwin Phelps Award for Scholarship in Legal Writing for her article “Telling Stories in the Supreme Court: Voices Briefs and the Role of Democracy in Constitutional Deliberation,” published in Volume 29 (2017) of the Yale Journal of Law and…

Janelle Willis (Nursing) has been elected executive director for the new Nevada Nursing Students’ Association, which functions to enhance nursing education through multiple avenues. In her role, Willis will work with the association’s board of directors to establish goals and strategies, manage financial and material resources, and oversee…

Mark Lenker (Libraries) recently presented "Building on First-Year Students' Information Seeking Strengths: How their Life-Research Experiences Can Inform FYE Library Instruction Curriculum" at the Workshop for Instruction in Library Use 2018 conference in Ottawa, Canada. 

Szu-Ping Lee, Ya-Ting Hsu (both Physical Therapy), and Lung-Chang Chien (Environmental and Occupational Health), along with two alums, Marissa Toberman, '12 BS Kinesiology and '15 Doctor of Physical Therapy, and Betina Bair, '03 BA Communication Studies and '15 Doctor of Physical Therapy, co-authored “Gender and Posture are Significant Risk…

Stephen Brown (Economics) and his co-author, Maura Allaire (graduate student at the University of North Carolina at time of publication, now assistant professor at UC Irvine), recently received the award for best paper covering the period of 2012-16 at the International Association for Energy Economics Conference in Groningen, Netherlands,…

David Morris (English) is the author of The Evil Hours, a book that recently was quoted in The New York Times Magazine in an article on PTSD among drone operators.