David Schwartz (Center for Gaming Research) made numerous presentations in 2014, including "Getting the Mob Out: How Changes in Nevada Law Helped Push Organized Crime Out of Nevada Gaming," sponsored by the UNLV Gaming Law Society and Criminal Law Society; "Today's Gaming Trends," held at the Bob Maheu First Wednesday Lunch at the Las Vegas…

Ernesto Abel-Santos (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and his team have received a five-year, $3.25 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a more potent and stable drug to prevent clostridium difficile, or C. difficile. The grant is an R01, or research project grant, which is the original and historically oldest grant…

Susan Thompson (International Programs) was given the Ron Moffatt Award for Peace and Social Justice for her dedication to international education and the academic and cultural exchange of students and research by NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Region XII, at its annual conference in November.

John Bowers (English) delivered a lecture titled "Tolkien Editing Chaucer" to the Medieval Colloquium at the University of Virginia in October. The presentation was based on his latest research in September recovering from Oxford archives a lost, forgotten book by J. R. R. Tolkien. This was his Clarendon Chaucer student edition which occupies him…

Howard Gordon (Teaching & Learning) was named president of the Association for Career and Technical Education Research at the recent 2014 conference in Nashville, Tenn. He will serve a two-year term of office.

Linda Lister, Stephanie Weiss, Lillian Roberts, Xavier Brown, and Cheyna Alexander (all Music) of UNLV Opera won in two categories at the National Opera Association Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition, which took place at the national convention in Greensboro, N.C. in January. UNLV Opera won in both the graduate and musical theatre divisions.

Ryan Larsen (International Programs) was given the Outstanding Service in International Education Award for his dedication to study abroad by NAFSA: Association of International Educators at the Region XII annual conference in November.

Andrew Murtishaw (Psychology) recently won first place in a graduate student research competition sponsored by the Southern Nevada section of the American Chemical Society for his research titled, "Chronic LPS-induced Inflammatory Response in a Diabetic Model of Alzheimer's Disease." His research in the Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory of…

Monica Bolton, Chelcie Heaney, Andrew Murtishaw, and Jefferson Kinney (all Psychology) recently published the article, "Postnatal Alterations in GABAB Receptor Tone Produce Sensorimotor Gating and Protein Level Differences in Adulthood." Bolton works in the Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory of professor Kinney and this is her second manuscript…