Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) is the lead author of a new report, DisruptHERS: Driving A New Model for Women's Sport, that was released by the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota to celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month.…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Sexual and Physical Revictimization in U.S. Military Veterans" in the Journal of Traumatic Stress.  

Jun Yong Kang (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has been awarded a patent granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the invention “Chiral n-heterocyclic phosphorodiamidic acids (NHPAS) and derivatives as novel bronsted acid catalysts” This invention describes new synthetic methods of novel NHPA organocatalysts, which…

Musa Pam (Facilities Management) presented a session, “Championing Anti-Racism in Facilities Management and Beyond,” at APPA, the association for facilities management professionals’ Facilities Symposium in November.  The presentation used data for front-line facilities workers to explore why minorities are underrepresented in leadership…

UNLV undergraduates Gaelan Chen, Victor Gumenyuk and Jacob T.  Hook (all Math) ranked in the 95th percentile overall in the preeminent math competition for undergraduate students in the U.S. and Canada in December. The Putnam Math Competition is a six-hour competition held annually and administered by the Mathematical Association of America.…

Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was interviewed by Zena Ryder for the Modular Building Institute. Zena interviewed him about his work and research on modular construction, and his experience in and around the modular construction industry, which is published in the latest issue (March/April 2022) of…

Dr. Robin Weltman (Dental) co-authored “A Long-term Retrospective Analysis of Single Tooth Implants and Endodontic Therapies in a University Setting,” which published Feb. 20 online ahead of print in the Journal of Periodontology. She also co-authored “Vertical Ridge Augmentation around Dental Implants with the Use of a Dense PTFE Membrane to…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) virtually presented "Intimate Boundaries: Toward a Feminist Theory of Borders" to the Kegley Institute of Ethics at the California State University, Bakersfield. 

Kristin Steffen (Faculty Affairs) was recently accepted as one of approximately 60 LEAD Fellows from across the nation into the 2022-2023 national Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Certificate Program through the Association of American Medical Colleges. The LEAD Certificate Program, an application-based certificate program,…