Susanna Newbury (Art) and Maria del C Vera (Architecture) recently published their joint study "Arbitrage Las Vegas: A Portrait of Urban Games" in Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and Extraurban Studies. The article considers the roles of arbitrage, risk, and theories of gaming in the redevelopment of downtown Las Vegas.

The Sanford I. Berman Debate Forum (Urban Affairs) achieved two historic milestones for the program at two national championship tournaments. Debate members competed in the Cross Examination Debate Association-CEDA-National Championship and The National Debate Tournament (NDT). The team of Sara Beth Brooks and Roman Kezios were the…

Wanda Taylor (Geoscience) and her graduate class recently were featured in the Vegas PBS series Outdoor Nevada. Taylor and her students join host John Burke to investigate earthquake fault lines in the California Wash Reservoir. Vegas PBS’ Outdoor Nevada originally aired from 1995 to 1999. Hosted by highly regarded…

James Cross and Nadia Pomirleanu (both Marketing & International Business) were honored this month by the Journal of Marketing Education (JME). They were awarded the Journal Article of the Year for 2015 for their piece, "Evaluating Educational Practices for Positively Affecting Student Perceptions of a Sales…

Brian Hedlund (Life Sciences) recently was featured in the Vegas PBS series Outdoor Nevada. Hedlund and host John Burke look for clues to life on other planets in the hot springs in Gerlach.  Vegas PBS’ Outdoor Nevada originally aired from 1995 to 1999. Hosted by highly regarded television host and actor John Burke,…

Satish Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) is the author of Plums, Peaches and Pears of Education, Volume I (Trafford Publishing). The book is a personal story (in 98 independent reflections) of his life in education — as a lifetime student and part-time teacher! This is Bhatnagar's ninth book. 

Brett Caroline Levner (Film) won the 2015 Charles Vanda Award for Excellence in the Arts for her work on The Track, a feature film about underage sex trafficking in Las Vegas.  It stars Missy Yager (Mad Men), Sam Trammell (True Blood, The Fault in Our Stars), Michael Muhney (Veronica Mars, The Young and the Restless), Clarence Gilyard (Die…

Scott Abella (Life Sciences) presented the first talk in the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's 2016 Nevada Naturalist Lecture Series. His presentation was titled "Conserving America’s National Parks." Abella shared stories of active conservation projects across the national park system, including many local parks such as…

Marianne Tejada (Nursing) has been selected to the Summer Genetics Institute, a tuition-free, one-month intensive research training program at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. The program, sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research, seeks to increase the research capability among graduate students and faculty,…