An-Pyng Sun (Social Work) and Hilarie Cash (reSTART Life) gave a presentation, "Factors Related to the Occurrence and Recovery of Internet Use Disorder," at NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals' 2017 annual conference in Denver in September,.

Melissa Bowles-Terry (Libraries) gave an invited presentation at the Association of Research Libraries fall meeting in Washington, D.C., regarding library impact on student success. Along with Jade Winn from University of Southern California Libraries, she reported on the results of a project launched by the Greater Western Library Alliance…

Laura J. Kruskall (Nutrition Sciences) co-authored, Nutrition for Sport, Exercise, and Health. Fellow authors include Marie A. Spano and D. Travis Thomas. The book includes applied content and research-based guidelines to help students distinguish between nutrition recommendations backed by science and the plethora of misinformation available in…

Kara Radzak (Athletic Training) accepted an invitation to be the sole athletic trainer for Team USA during the 2017 World Archery Para Championship in Beijing, China. The event is held biannually and is second to the Paralympic Games in event prestige. The championship event received more than 200 athletes from nearly 40 nations who competed in 14…

Rebecca Gill (Political Science and the Women's Research Institute of Nevada) and Michael  Kagan (Law), along with Fatma Marouf of Texas A&M University School of Law, recently published an article, "The Impact of Maleness on Judicial Decision Making: Masculinity, Chivalry, and Immigration Appeals," in the journal Politics, Groups,…

Ben Edwards (Law) recently presented a work in progress titled "Venture Bearding" to the faculty of the Florida International University College of Law in Miami..

John Hay (English) is the author of Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature, a new book published by Cambridge University Press. This scholarly monograph explores the ways that many U.S. authors in the early nineteenth century (such as Cooper, Hawthorne, and Thoreau) imagined a future following a global catastrophe.…

Patricia "Trish" Suske (Summer Term ) was sworn in as president of the Western Association of Summer Session Administrators (WASSA) at the 71st annual Conference that took place in Golden, Colorado, in September. She was also this year's recipient of the association's Distinguished Service Award for her many years of dedication and leadership.

Benjamin Root and Philip Voorhees (Online Education) and their efforts were highlighted in the September release notes of H5P, an open source HTML5 eLearning authoring tool. The duo worked closely with the international H5P software team to test and improve the accessibility of the tool. The office of online education will…