Tamara Madensen (Criminal Justice) is the recipient of the 2017 Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing. She received the award for developing an effective and innovative violence-reduction policing strategy called PIVOT (Place-based Investigations of Violent Offender Territories). PIVOT is designed to stop…

Yingke Xu and Xiangxue Xiao (both Community Health Sciences and Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) recently received Top Young Investigators Awards from the American Society of Bone Mineral Research (ASBMR) for their work in Qing Wu’s lab within the UNLV Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine. Xu was awarded $1,000, while Xiao…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) served as an invited speaker during three events focused on periodontics. First, he accepted an invitation to the 4th annual North American Saliva Symposium where he shared results of his work "Salivary Analytes and Onset of Periodontitis." He then discussed findings from his study “Translational Modeling of Human…

Jared Lau and Ching-Chen Chen (both Educational and Clinical Studies), along with George Richardson (University of Cincinnati) gave a presentation, "Introduction to Instrument Development and Item Response Theory for Counseling Professionals" at the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision 2017 national conference in Chicago…

Dr. Edward Lynch and Martin Grootveld (both Dental) successfully supervised Tracey Lee Lennemann for her PhD thesis (awarded September 2017), "Sustainable Delivery Methods for ('Grass Roots') Oral Health Promotion in Children; a Longitudinal Study involving NGO's and Rural Community Groups in India".

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, "Creating an Intermediate Medical Spanish Program at an Urban University," at the 75th meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  

Donovan Conley (Communication Studies) and Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) presented a paper, "Welcome to the Techno-Jungle: Black Mirror and the Traumas of Pre-Political Inoculation" at the Affect, Activism, and New Media Conference at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in October. 

Steven T. Bickmore (Teaching and Learning) is a leading scholar and advocate for the teaching of young adult literature. He writes a weekly blog post on the subject. On Oct. 4 he addressed the Las Vegas shooting and the role of teachers. The National Council of Teacher of English quoted from the blog and posted a link in…

Chris Wood (Educational and Clinical Studies) gave a presentation, "A Superordinate Group Identity in Forging the Future: Approaches to Caring for New Faculty," at the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision 2017 national conference in Chicago in October.