The UNLV Jazz Program took home several awards at the 2015 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival in March. UNLV Jazz Ensemble I, conducted by Dave Loeb and Nathan Tanouye, received second place in the College Big Band Division, competing among some of the finest university jazz ensembles in the nation. The UNLV Latin Jazz Ensemble, directed by…

Cyndi Shein (Libraries) received the inaugural Best General Interest Article Award from the Journal of Western Archives (JWA) for her article "From Accession to Access: A Born-Digital Materials Case Study." This award honors the article published in the journal during the previous year that the JWA review board has determined to be most innovative…

Rosan Mitola, Erin Rinto, and John Watts (all Libraries) gave a presentation at the 2015 Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience titled "Partners in Teaching: A Strategic Training Program for Peer-Assisted Learning."

Erica Marti (Civil and Environmental Engineering) was selected to join the U.S. delegation and attend the 2015 Interdisciplinary Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in Lindau, Germany. She is one of 55 U.S. students chosen by Oak Ridge Associated Universities to participate in this international scientific meeting with 70 Nobel Laureates in attendance.…

John Watts (Libraries) has been selected as one of two new facilitators for the national, grant-funded program "Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success" (AiA) from the Association of College and Research Libraries, which aims to strengthen the competencies of librarians in campus leadership and data-informed advocacy. He was…

Melissa Bowles-Terry and Samantha Godbey (both Libraries) offered workshops at the European Conference on Information Literacy. Bowles-Terry presented "Improve Your Instruction With Classroom Assessment Techniques." Best practices for using assessment techniques in a library setting were detailed by her and her co-presenter, Cass Kvenild, from…

Patrick Griffis (Libraries) published his article "Information Literacy in Business Education Experiential Learning Programs" in the Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship.

Jordan Watkins (Graduate College) is the recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation Award. He is pursuing a doctoral degree in history. His dissertation is titled "Slavery, Sacred Texts, and the Antebellum Confrontation with History."

Nicole Thomas (Music) has been accepted to the Houston Grand Opera Young Artist Academy for summer 2015. A mezzo-soprano, she was accepted from a highly completive field of more than 1,000 singers. Singers are chosen by videotaped audition and recommendation only. The first UNLV student to be accepted into this program, she also was Nevada's first…