Madeline (Maddy) Anderson, Erika Busbee, and Melissa Barber recently presented on "Leveraging Hybrid Teams In the Modern Certification Environment" at the Western Association of Veteran Education Specialists (WAVES) conference held this year in Reno, Nevada. The trio are VA School Certifying Officials (SCOs) on staff within the UNLV Military…

Asma Awan and Manoj Sharma (both Social and Behavioral Health) presented a paper titled, “Protocol for youth healthcare dashboard: An integration of public health informatics with a contemporary behavioral model,” at the VIII-International European Conference on Interdisciplinary Scientific Research held in Rome, Italy on July 14, 2023.  The…

John Curry (History) has just been appointed for a two-year term as the Higher Education co-chair for the Advanced Placement World History Exam Development Committee, where he will head up the committee that vets and prepares the questions for the AP World History: Modern Exam for over 360,000 high school students throughout the U.S. and…

Amanda Melilli (Libraries), along with colleagues Alicia G. Vaandering (University of Rhode Island) and James W. Rosenzweig (Eastern Washington University), presented, "Stories to Empower our Communities: Promoting Diverse LGBTQIA+ Narratives in Picture Book Collections," at the 2023 American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago,…

Christian Jensen, Nadia Eldemerdash (both Political Science), and assistant teaching professor Steven Landis (Political Science, University of Notre Dame) have recently published new research in the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe that examines the relationship between vulnerability to climate change, political institutions and…

Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) co-authored a chapter titled, "Leadership Learning," in the new book, A Research Agenda for Leadership Learning and Development Through Higher Education, published by Edward Elgar. Satterwhite and his co-author, Benjamin Correia-Harker of Marquette University, explore brain-based factors…

Deborah A. Kuhls, MD FACS, FCCM, chief, Division of Acute Care Surgery and chief of Trauma at UMC (Medicine), along with Susan Briggs, MD, FACS associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, co-presented "Leading through Challenging times: Mass Casualties" webinar series sponsored by the Society of Vascular Surgeons, July 12, 2023. This…

John "Skip" Crooker, Christina Drum, Qingmin Shi, and Ashley Guyer (all Decision Support) recently presented three scholarly papers at the annual Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Forum. One of our presentations, co-presented by Crooker, Shi, Guyer, "Student Involvement: Does it bridge the equity gap in student success?," was…

Professor-in-Residence Rocky Rockstraw, Ph.D., RN, FNAP (Nursing) is one of 23 distinguished nurse educators who have been selected for induction as the 17th class of fellows in the prestigious Academy of Nursing Education. He is known for his early adoption and instruction of technology in nursing education in the areas of health care simulation…