Edward Lynch (Dental) this month presented two full days of lectures and hands-on practicals for the British Academy of Restorative Dentistry and the Centre for Advanced Professional Practices (CAPP) in Dubai, UAE, which has the sole purpose of delivering excellence in dental continuing medical education in the Middle East and beyond. CAPP is an…

Benjamin P. Edwards (Law) presented a draft law review article, "Venture Bearding," at the Rocky Mountain Junior Scholars Forum at Brigham Young University. The article discusses identity performance at the intersection of entity formation and capital raising.  

Brittany Fiedler (Libraries) has been selected as an American Library Association (ALS) Emerging Leader. The ALA Emerging Leaders program is a leadership development program for newer librarians. The program is limited to no more than 50 participants each year.  The program kicks off with a day-long session during the ALA Midwinter…

Danny Young (Physical Therapy) co-authored “Toward a Common Language for Measuring Patient Mobility in the Hospital: Reliability and Construct Validity of Interprofessional Mobility Measures,” which evaluated the reliability and minimal detectable change of Activity Measure-Post Acute Care Inpatient Mobility Short Form and Johns Hopkins Highest…

Jeffrey Berkbigler (Libraries) presented a session at the Missouri Library Association's annual conference in early October. Fulfilling a commitment he made before joining UNLV in June, Jeffrey led a group discussion for job seekers and hiring managers called "Job Seekers' Support Group: Navigating the Horrible Valley of the Librarian Job Search."

Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) recently was honored with the David K. Stotlar Award at the 2017 Sport Marketing Association (SMA) Conference in Boston. The purpose of the Stotlar Award is to honor and recognize a sport marketing educator who reflects the mission of the SMA through the promotion and advancement of…

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) presented a paper titled "Contrast Conceptions: (Alex) North and the South" at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in Rochester, New York. The AMS is the largest and most significant musicological society in North America, and its meetings attract top scholars in the field from around the world. Lee…

Cara Cole (Art) is presenting photographic work at High Noon Gallery, 106 Eldridge Street. New York, NY, Nov. 15-Dec. 10 with the exhibition opening at 6 p.m. Nov. 16. Cole’s complex photographic images both enchant and disturb, and their layered and accomplished surfaces reveal the kinds of experiences we have too few images of, and…

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition) published four invited book chapters in a series titled Biomarkers in Disease: Methods, Discoveries and Applications published by Springer this year. It is the most comprehensive evidence-based text on this topic. These book chapters are based on the original published research by Basu and her colleagues in…