Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) has published a book chapter titled "Playing Music" in the edited book Popular Culture as Everyday Life (Routledge, 2015). 

Zhongbo Yu (Geoscience) recently received the John Hem Award for Excellence in Science & Engineering from the National Ground Water Association. The award honors significant scientific or engineering contributions to the understanding of groundwater. The award will be presented at the 2015 Groundwater Expo in Las Vegas this week. Yu was…

John Watts (Libraries) gave an invited talk titled “Assessment and Academic Library Value” at the 35th annual Charleston Conference in November. 

Greg Brown (History) has been chosen as the new general editor of  'Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment.' He will continue to broaden the temporal and geographic scope of the series to embrace global Enlightenment culture (including burgeoning areas of research, such as southern and eastern Europe, the Hispanic world, and…

Joanne Goodwin (Women's Research Institute and History) gave a presentation on the development of — and her role as — co-producer in the television series MAKERS: Women in Nevada History at the National Women's Studies Association annual conference in Milwaukee in November. Also on the panel were representatives from the University of…

Richard Clark (Housing & Residential Life) was elected to a three-year term as president of the Association of InterMountain Housing Officers (AIMHO) at the annual conference in Tucson, Arizona, in November. AIMHO serves housing officers in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Saskatchewan (Canada). He…

David Schwartz (Libraries) gave a presentation titled “Las Vegas Stories: The Remarkable Life of Kirk Kerkorian, Father of the Las Vegas Megaresort” at the Clark County Library in November.   

Julia Lee (English) is the author of Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). A forward for the book was penned by historian and author Henry Louis Gates Jr. The book received a favorable review in the Dec. 15 issue of The Atlantic.

Tish Smyer, Tricia Gatlin, Rhigel Tan, Marianne Tejada, and Du Feng (all Nursing) co-authored “Academic Outcome Measures of a Dedicated Education Unit Over Time: Help or Hinder,” which appeared in November/December 2015 issue of Nurse Educator. The article examined a study focused on whether students placed on a dedicated education unit achieved…