Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) was invited to speak at the international forum titled "Exploring Coloniality in Counselor Preparation: Promoting Culturally Sensitive and Inclusive Assessment and Research Practices in Taiwan and the U.S." during the Taiwan Guidance and Counseling Association Annual…
Lloyd Jensen Medicine) gave an initial presentation on "Importancia y organizacion del sistema de transporte pediatrico y neonatal" at the annual Instituto Nacional de Pedinatalogogic de Mexico- Curso Hibrido Internacional de Transporte Medico Pediatrico y Neonatal.
Yash Desai (Medicine) was selected to present his study "Characteristics and Outcomes of Out-of-Hospital Births in Las Vegas Nevada" at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition in the Section on Transport Medicine.
David G. Schwartz (Ombuds Office) recently published "React or Respond? The Answer That Changes the Story" on Informed Informality, his blog that considers people, organizations, conflict, and culture, among other things. The post explores the differences between reacting and responding to a novel or negative situation, with a case study that…
Accreditation: Student Health Clinic (SHC) Laboratory
The Student Health Clinic (SHC) Laboratory has been selected as a recipient of the COLA Laboratory Excellence Award as a result of their recent rigorous on-site laboratory survey. COLA Inc. is a leading national laboratory accreditor, whose program and standards enable clinical laboratories and staff to…
Thomas Lamont (Geology) had a paper titled, "Porphyry copper formation driven by water fluxed crustal anatexis during flat-slab subduction," published on Nov. 4 in Nature Geoscience.
It has long been recognized that many of the worlds largest porphyry copper deposits (copper ore formed by magmatic-hydrothermal fluids associated with granitic…
Published: Sarah Kazemeini, Ahmed Nadeem-Tariq, Ryan Shih, John Rafanan, Nabih Ghani, Thomas A. Vida
Sarah Kazemeini, Ahmed Nadeem-Tariq, Ryan Shih, John Rafanan, Nabih Ghani, and Thomas A. Vida (all Medicine) published "From Plaques to Pathways in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Mitochondrial-Neurovascular-Metabolic Hypothesis" in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is expected to impact over 13 million people in…
Timothy Erwin (English) published a book chapter on the sister arts in a collection by various hands, Oliver Goldsmith in Context (Cambridge). The Irish author wrote canonical works in poetry, fiction, and drama during the Enlightenment, and the volume accompanies his new Collected Works edited by Michael Griffin and David O’Shaughnessy.
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented an invited public lecture titled "Early Modern Aesthetics: A Missing Link" at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. In her talk, she analyzed the role of creative authors and writers in 16th c. Spain as part of the historical arc of changes in artistic and aesthetic developments.
With a little guidance from his mother, the new director of Student Diversity Programs is ready to cheer on and empower UNLV's diverse student population.