Maulah Adanri and Paul Smith (Nursing) have been selected as Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholars by the School of Nursing. Each of these doctoral students will receive $20,000 for their nursing studies during the next two years, making them part of a national effort to combat the nursing faculty shortage and prepare future nurses as America's healthcare…

Erica Marti (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) is among 25 graduate students across the country selected to conduct research in Australia as part of the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI). For eight weeks this summer, she is doing research at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, involving potable water reuse and…

Sue Fawn Chung (History) has been invited to speak at the Sun Yatsen University Conference on Chinese Workers in Guangzhou (Canton), China, in September; to the Stanford University Conference on Chinese Railroad Workers in October; and to the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, in November.

Berenice Chavez (Film) won two Pacific Southwest Student Emmy Awards in June. The awards were presented during a ceremony in San Diego. Her film, North to Paradise,won in the category of long-form documentary, while her film, Passing the Torch,won in the craft of editing category. Both projects were created in UNLV's film program. She has been…

Erika Engstrom (Communication Studies) is co-author of "Television, Religion, and 'Supernatural': Hunting Monsters, Findings Gods" (Lexington, 2014) with Joseph M. Valenzano III of the University of Dayton and formerly of UNLV. Their book examines the text of the CW network television series Supernatural, a program based in the horror genre that…

Francine Lipman (Law) recently co-wrote an article, "Heal the Suffering Children: Fifty Years After the Declaration of War on Poverty," for the Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice. He co-author was UNLV alum Dawn Davis.

Ralf Sudowe (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) and Derek McLain (Radiochemistry) wrote "Extraction Behavior of Americium and Curium on Selected Extraction Chromatography Resins from Pure Acidic Matrices," which studies the extraction properties of chromatography resins and their potential application in the areas of nuclear forensics,…

Stacey Tovino (Law) has written three new law review articles. The first, "Lost in the Shuffle: How Health and Disability Laws Hurt Problem Gamblers," will be featured in the Tulane Law Review. Another, titled "Silence Is Golden ... Except in Health Care Philanthropy," will appear in the University of Richmond Law Review. Her third article, "…

Patti Shock (Hotel) is being inducted into the Convention Industry Council (CIC) Hall of Leaders 2014, the highest award in the industry. A Hall of Leaders Awards Gala will take place in October. The CIC is a federation of 33 industry associations. Shock retired from full-time teaching last year after 25 years at UNLV, but still teaches online.