André Chiang, DMA (Music - Voice) recently participated in a workshop performance of the opera, Fearless, words and music written by Derrick Wang. The performance was produced by Opera Delaware in Wilmington, Delaware, and Chiang sang the role of Clint. The opera follows the life and accomplishments of Hazel Ying Lee, the first Chinese-…

UNLV Dance has been selected to perform with the New York-based Martha Graham Dance Company in a prestigious concert entitled University Partners Showcase April 22 in the famed Joyce Theater. UNLV Dance joins six other highly-regarded dance institutions presenting work from the 20th century canon of modern dance. UNLV Dance will perform a piece by…

Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) has been elected for a two-year term as president of the Western States Folklore Society. Starting in January 2023, she has also taken over as co-editor (with Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, University of Tartu) for the international journal Narrative Culture.

Robert Cochrane (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences PhD candidate), James Navalta (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Anne Weisman (School of Medicine) recently published "The Hero’s Journey as a Novel, Narrative, and Improvisational Group Intervention on Quality of Life for People with Parkinson’s Disease" in Heroism Science. Parkinson’…

Melissa Morris (Mechanical Engineering) received the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Pacific Southwest (PSW) Outstanding Teaching Award. The award recognizes an engineering educator for their outstanding classroom performance and contributions to the scholarship of teaching.  She was honored with this award at the annual…

Ariana L. Garcia (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting in Chicago, IL, on April 15, 2023. She presented work from her dissertation titled “The Latina/o/x Graduate Student Experience: Advancing Our Collective Understanding.” AERA is the largest…

Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences) and colleagues A. Khalili, M. Asgharian, both of McGill University, and S. Lin (Ohio State University) co-authored an article titled "Sparse estimation in semi-parametric finite mixture of varying coefficient regression models". The paper introduces an unsupervised learning and feature selection methods…

Jared Lau (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) and colleagues from New Mexico State, Kansas State, and Portland State universities published Use of the MSJCC: A content analysis of ACA journals in the journal Counselor Education and Supervision, the flagship journal of the Association for Counselor Education…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) has received an "Outstanding Mentor" award from the Graduate Professional Student Association at their 25th Annual Research Forum on April 15, 2023. This award recognizes academic faculty who have demonstrated continued success in preparing graduate students and trainees for their academic and professional pursuits. Batra…