Denis Beller (Harry Reid Center) conducted a presentation titled "Atomic Time Machines: Back to the Future of Nuclear Power Part II" at the 2012 Community Environmental Monitoring Program Annual Symposium held at the Desert Research Institute in July. He also served as a panelist for a discussion of the Fukushima reactor disaster in Japan, "17…

Bryn Esplin (Law School) received the Early Career Scholar in Neuroethics Award for her work "Identical Prescriptions, Disparate Treatment: Anticonvulsant Usage in Frontal Lobe Epilepsy and Bipolar I Disorder," which she presented at the International Neuroethics Conference at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio in October.

Bob Aalberts (Business) delivered a speech, "Legal Systems of the World: Are They Evolving Toward Unification?" to the School of Law at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy, in December.

Michael Lugering (Theatre) is the author of The Expressive Actor: Integrated Voice, Movement and Acting Training, which has been republished in a second edition by Routledge Theatre and Performance in the United Kingdom. This second edition has been restructured and reorganized completely and contains 30,000 additional words and numerous new…

Wayne Stolte (Harry Reid Center) has had four articles published recently. They are: Electronic Structure of Polycrystalline Cadmium Dichloride Studied by X-ray Spectroscopies and ab Initio Calculations, which appeared in Materials Chemistry and Physics. Anionic and Cationic Photodissociation of the Chloroform Molecule Excited in the…

Kathy Lauckner (Harry Reid Center) is an invited speaker at the upcoming Lead and Healthy Housing Conference that will take place at the Marina Del Ray in Los Angeles later this month. She will moderate a workshop based on her dissertation work for the critical factors necessary to develop a successful lead poisoning prevention program. The…

Amy Bouchard (Alumni) has been elected as treasurer of the Public Relations Society of America's (PRSA) Western District. The district serves 10 chapters on the West Coast and provides support and leadership cultivation for the next generation of professionals to be voices for the PR industry. Previously, she served on the board of directors for…

Ken Czerwinski (Chemistry) has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in the chemistry section. Election as an AAAS fellow is bestowed upon association members by their peers. He was elected because of his distinguished contributions to actinide and fission product chemistry and for building a world-…

Brenda Buck (Geoscience) and her research were the subject of an article, "Health Implications of Dust," which was the cover story for the December issue of CSA News. The publication is the official magazine for members of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America.