Su Kim Chung (Libraries) was elected vice president/president-elect of the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists (CIMA), an association of archives professionals from institutions in Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and New Mexico in May. She previously served on CIMA’s council from 2002-04 and 2011-13.  

Murat Alp and Frank Cucinotta (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) are co-authors of “Irradiation of Neurons with High-Energy Charged Particles: An In Silico Modeling Approach,” which outlines the use of a stochastic computational model to study damage of irradiated neuronal cells. The study addresses the physico-chemical and patho-…

Marketa Trimble (Law) recently was elected as an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, an organization that brings together scholars to focus on the comparative study of legal systems. 

Silvia Southwick (Libraries) won the 2015 University Libraries Outstanding Library Faculty Scholarship Award for her scholarly work in the linked data field. While she has a history of scholarship with linked data, she outdid even her previous accomplishments by producing 10 scholarly works in 2014, including peer-reviewed journal…

Vicky Albert (Social Work) conducted a seminar at the London School of Economics in June. She presented some key findings from her project with the Brookings Institution on the Great Recession and some findings from her own recent research.

Barbara Lavina (Physics & Astronomy) is the author of an article, "Unraveling the Complexity of Iron Oxides at High Pressure and Temperature: Synthesis of Fe5O6," which appeared in the June 26 issue of Science Advances. Using laser heating in the diamond anvil cell and synchrotron microfocused X-ray beam, Lavina and Yue Meng from…

Katherine Rankin (Libraries) won the American Library Association’s (ALA) Map and Geospatial Information Round Table (MAGIRT) Honors Award this summer at the ALA conference in San Francisco. She was recognized primarily for event planning and a presentation she did at the ALA annual conference in Las Vegas last summer as well as for acting as…

Balakrishnan Naduvalath (Chemistry and Biochemistry) recently published an article titled, "The Geometric Phase Controls Ultracold Chemistry," in the July 30 issue of Nature Communications. The research demonstrates a new interference mechanism in ultracold chemical reactions, one which has important technological…

Claytee D. White (Libraries) was recognized as the Best Keeper of Our History in Vegas Seven’s 2015 "Best of the City" issue. As the inaugural director of the UNLV University Libraries’ Oral History Research Center, White has spent more than a decade collecting the stories of Las Vegas residents and preserving the history of Southern Nevada.…