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…

Tracy Johnson (Liberal Arts), Janet Hollinger (Academic Affairs), Eric Lee (Academic Affairs), and Cheyenne Rogers (Education) received four of the nine Region 9 Academic Advising Awards given at the annual NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) Region 9 conference held at the University of California, Berkeley. Johnson received the…

Berenice Chavez (Film) was nominated for three Pacific Southwest Emmy Awards in the student category for her short documentaries, Passing the Torch and North to Paradise, which were made in the Documentary Techniques class at UNLV. Two nominations are for producing and one is for editing. She will be attending the awards ceremony this month in San…

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.