Monika Blum (Chemistry and Biochemistry) recently was profiled by the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Blum has been going to the ALS since she was a graduate student. She now is an associate research professor, working in professor Clemens Heske’s group, and oversees their…

Jennifer Gray (Student Affairs) and Anna Brandenberger (UNLV Dining), along with Benny Yerushalmi and John Lee, both of whom are with Soho Sushi Burrito, made a presentation at the National Association of College Auxiliary Services west regional conference on "Bet Big, Win Big; How UNLV Gambled on Soho Sushi Burrito and Won." The conference was…

Robert Randolph (Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology) received the best paper award at the 2017 Family Enterprise Research Conference in Asheville, North Carolina, for presenting the research study "Seeing Forests for the Trees: Knowledge Diversity and Causation Logics in Family Firms." The paper was co-authored with faculty at…

Kathy Ewoldt, Heike Rüdenauer, and Kristin Withey (all Educational and Clinical Studies) presented at the 30th annual Textbook and Academic Authoring Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, last week. The doctoral students chronicled their transition from consumers to authors of scholarly writing in their presentation, "Becoming an Academic Author…

Galya Raz (Dental) earned diplomate status from the American Board of Periodontology. Diplomate is the board’s highest recognition and acknowledges periodontists who have made significant achievements beyond the mandatory educational requirements for the specialty. Dr. Raz is one of only nine diplomates registered in Las Vegas, and the first full-…

Alan Simmons (Anthropology) recently participated in an invited interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Australian National University. The conference and subsequent workshop addressed the impacts that ancient humans had on native island animal populations, including their possible role in the extinction of the latter. Simmons was…

Peter Gray (Anthropology) gave a plenary talk at the 2017 Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Boise, Idaho, in May. The conference draws an interdisciplinary contingent of faculty and students interested in the evolution of human behavior. His talk, titled "Sex, Babies and Dogs: Evolutionary and Endocrine Aspects of Changing Human Families,"…

Erin Rinto and Melissa Bowles-Terry (both University Libraries) are the authors of an article selected by the Library Instruction Round Table as a top 20 article on library instruction for 2016. “Assessing the Scope and Feasibility of First-Year Students’ Research Paper Topics,” co-authored with former UNLV Information Literacy Fellow Ariel…

The Residence Hall Association (Residential Life) won top honors at the National Association of College and University Residence Halls (NACURH) annual conference hosted at Purdue University in May. The Residence Hall Association (RHA) won the prestigious “NACURH School of the Year” award. This is the top distinction for affiliated RHA chapters in…