Gary Pullman (English) is the author of  the short story, "Devilish Delights," which was published Feb. 5 by The Wild Rose Press. The story was published under the pen name Leigh Paul. In addition, he signed a contract with the same publisher for his urban fantasy novel A Whole World Full of Hurt, which is scheduled for publication this year…

Paul Oh (Mechanical Engineering) and his team of UNLV researchers and students are being featured in the Nova special, "Rise of the Robots," which will air  at 9 p.m. Feb. 24 on Vegas PBS. In spring 2015, UNLV's team, DRC-HUBO@UNLV, competed in the international Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) robotics challenge,…

Andreas Stefik (Computer Science) was recognized as a White House Champion of Change for Computer Science Education. Stefik is among nine recipients who will be honored at a Jan. 26 event in Washington, D.C. Stefik is the inventor of Quorum, the first evidence-oriented programming language. The design of Quorum is based on rigorous empirical data…

Katherine Rankin (Libraries) gave a presentation titled “Intellectual Freedom Issues in Libraries” at this year’s Nevada Library Association Conference. Rankin is the Intellectual Freedom Chair for the Nevada Library Association.  

Melva Thompson-Robinson (Center for Health Disparities Research and School of Community Health Sciences) has been elected co-chair of the Pacific and Southwest Regional Health Equity Council. This council covers Region IX of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which includes Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, California, and the Pacific…

Brett Riddle (Life Sciences) is a co-author on a paper that was recently published in Nature. The article is titled, "Holocene Shifts in the Assembly of Plant and Animal Communities Implicate Human Impacts." Understanding how ecological communities are organized and how they change through time is critical to predicting the effects of climate…

Justin Zhan (Computer Science) has been appointed a voting member of the Nevada Commission on Homeland Security (Commission) Cyber Security Committee by Gov. Brian Sandoval. The Cyber Security Committee is responsible for providing advice and recommendations to the commission on Nevada's cybersecurity risk, cyber threat preparedness posture,…

Melissa Stoner (Libraries), a project technician on the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Historic Nevada Newspapers project, was one of 50 people selected to participate in the 2016 class of Emerging Leaders of the American Library Association (ALA). She was co-sponsored by the Library and Information Technology Association and the ALA…

Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) has done work that is the subject of an exhibit, "Julian Kilker, Aesthetic Evidence: Place, Context, and Process in the Southwest," sponsored by Nevada Humanities. Sponsored with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the exhibit is on view through Jan. 28 at the Nevada Humanities…