Liam Johnson (Anthropology) presented research, "Last Seen Location: Using Missing Persons Data for Identification in Forensic Anthropology," with co-author Teresa Wilson of the department of geography and anthropology at Louisiana State University at the 74th American Academy of Forensic Science's annual meeting.

Gregory A. Borchard (Journalism and Media Studies) is the editor of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Journalism, which was released by SAGE Publishing in March. According to the publisher's description, the encyclopedia covers all significant dimensions of journalism, such as print, broadcast, and Internet journalism; U.S. and…

Huiying "Sophie" Zhang (Hospitality) was awarded a Graduate & Professional Student Association award for her work "Expanding the Knowledge Frontier." UNLV recognizes a variety of individuals from across disciplines each year for their contributions to the development and continued growth of the university. Awards were distributed at the UNLV…

Cass Shum (Hospitality) is a co-author of the article "Robots Can’t Take my Job: Antecedents and Outcomes of Gen Z Employees’ Service Robot Risk Awareness," which was published in International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. This paper examines employees' perceived job insecurity threatened by the adoption of service…

Michael Green (History) recently presented as part of a roundtable on "The Big 1862" at the Organization of American Historians conference in Boston. C-SPAN filmed the roundtable and plans to broadcast it.

Drs. Michelle Skuba Gray, Ian Isby, and Jamie Baydoun (all Medicine) recently delivered an oral presentation, ‘"Low Fidelity Pork Rib Ultrasound-Guided Serratus Anterior Nerve Block Simulation" at the annual Western Regional Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) conference held at Stanford University. This low-cost animal…

Angela Silvestri-Elmore (Nursing) has been elected to chapter 100 of the National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. 

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) has published a new post on From the Ombuds, the UNLV ombuds office's blog. Written in response to the International Ombuds Association's recent update of their code of ethics and standards of practice, the post summarizes the changes to those foundational documents and describes how they inform practices at UNLV.

Laurence Myers Reese (Art) spoke at the 2022 Conney Conference for Jewish Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, about his thesis work "In the Image of (Towards a Trans Talmud)," an interdisciplinary work investigating themes of intersex, trans, and genderqueer identity in Jewish texts. He is a graduate student.