Maria B. Roberts (Education) received a second Incentivizing Pathways to Teaching grant from the Nevada Department of Education to fund tuition and expenses for student teachers in their last semester of student teaching. Students may be eligible for funds between $8,400 to $10,400 each for the semester. The funding received for the spring…

Olivia Cheche (Political Science, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute), Peter Grema (Economics, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute), Blanca Peña (Criminal Justice), and Nicole Thomas (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) co-wrote a recent Op-Ed titled, "Students, Taxpayers Once Again Robbed by Higher…

Cory Lampert (Libraries) gave a presentation, "Looking Through the Portal: The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project and Perspectives on Partnership," at the Southwest Oral History Association Annual Conference on April 1. The presentation focused on a project collaboration between digital collections, the UNLV Oral History Research Center, and…

Gregory Schreck (Medicine) recently presented at the 2022 Association of American Medical Colleges Western Group on Educational Affairs regional meeting. His presentation, “A Novel Framework for Teaching Skills Training Through Weekly Learning Issues,” won the Medical Education Scholarship, Research and Evaluation (MESRE) Section Award of…

Johan Bester (Medicine) recently presented at the 2022 Association of American Medical Colleges Western Group on Educational Affairs regional meeting. His presentation, “How to Make Your Students Love Epidemiology,” won the Medical Education Scholarship, Research and Evaluation (MESRE) Section Award of Excellence for best poster in the category of…

Kathleen Thimsen and Paul Thomas Clements (both Nursing) have been appointed as associate editors for the Journal of the Academy of Forensic Nursing.

Jeffrey Ebersole and Linh Nguyen (both Dental) co-authored “Gingival Transcriptome of Innate Antimicrobial Factors and the Oral Microbiome With Aging and Periodontitis,” which published March 7 in Frontiers in Oral Health.

Tim Grigsby (Social & Behavioral Health) co-authored an article, "Adverse Childhood Experiences and Sleep Difficulties among Young Adult College Students" in the Journal of Sleep Research. This study examined the adverse childhood experience–sleep health (self-reported sleep difficulty and diagnosis of insomnia or “other” sleep disorder)…

Barbara Tabach (Oral History Research Center) received the Mink Award at the Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA) annual conference. The Mink Award is SOHA's highest honor and recognized Tabach's nearly 15 years of preserving local history through oral history interviews.