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.
Rachel Anderson (Law) was featured recently in Lawyers of Color magazine's "50 Under 50" list, which recognizes the nation's most influential minority law professors who are 50 years old or younger.
Marketa Trimble (Law) presented a paper, "Foreigners in U.S. Patent Litigation: An Empirical Study of Patent Cases Filed in Nine U.S. Federal District Courts in 2004, 2009, and 2012" in San Diego at the PatCon 4 conference, the largest annual conference for patent scholars in the world. The article will be published in the Vanderbilt Journal of…
David Tanenhaus (Law) is co-editor, along with law professor Franklin E. Zimring from the University of California, Berkeley, of the book, Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice (NYU Press).
Elizabeth MacDowell (Law) presented her work in progress, "Rethinking Access to Justice: Self-help, Advocacy and the Poor People's Courts," at the Association of American Law Schools Clinical Conference. She also presented her empirical research on the project as part of the Bellow Scholars' panel at the conference.
Stacey Tovino (Law) gave a talk titled "Mental Health Benefit Disparities after the Affordable Care Act" in March at a mental health law symposium hosted by the Mississippi College School of Law's Bioethics and Health Law Center. The symposium was titled "Mental Health in Mississippi." In April she gave a talk as part of a Translational…
Jeanne Price and David McClure (both Law) participated in a panel discussion on Gamifying Access at the Nevada Conference on Digital Learning held at UNLV in April. Their talk was titled "Institutional Repositories as Gamified Environments to Stimulate Student Agency and Faculty Impact."
Rachel Anderson (Law) moderated a Black History Month panel on Judicial and Black Legal History in Nevada. The February event was sponsored by the Clark County Black Caucus.
The engineering professor reflects on her journey from baking cakes to cover living expenses to becoming an expert in technology development for water and wastewater systems.