Christian Cervantes (Nursing) recently won the Clinical Nursing Staff Member of the Quarter at Desert Springs Hospital, part of the new Desert Diamond Awards, which recognize employee achievement in areas such as safety, hospitality, integrity, nurturing and excellence.

John "Skip" Crooker, Brent Drake, Celeste Calkins, and Qingmin Shi (all Decision Support) recently presented at the annual Association for Institutional Research Forum. Crooker, Shi, and Drake presented “A Synthetic-Control Method for Estimating the Impact of 15-to-Finish." Crooker, Calkins, and Shi presented “Forward-Looking Model Predicting STEM…

Meena Ejjada (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was selected for the 2021 Dave Caldwell Scholarship awarded by the American Water Works Association. The nationwide scholarship established in memory of Brown and Caldwell recognizes a graduate student whose work advances engineering and technology in the drinking water…

Wendy Kveck (Art) is one of four artists featured in "FREEDOM>FORCE REDUX" at the Sahara West Library. The exhibit opened June 11 and will be on display through Aug. 28.

Paul W. Werth (History) has been invited for a month-long appointment in 2022 as visiting professor to the department of historical studies at the University of Turin in Italy, for participation in its Global History of Empires program.

Jung Min (Art) has an exhibition, "Boundaries: Solo Exhibition," on display at Enterprise Library through July 18.

David Orentlicher (Law) recently discussed, “From the Academy to the Legislature: Translating Health Policy into Law," at the 2021 Annual Health Health Law Professors Conference of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.

Billy Bai and Huiying Zhang (both Hospitality), together with Xi Yu Leung, ’12 Ph.D. in Hospitality Administration, are authors of "Destination Sustainability in the Sharing Economy: A Conceptual Framework Applying the Capital Theory Approach" published in Current Issues in Tourism. Based on a layer-by-layer analysis, this study proposes a…

Jennifer Vanderlaan (Nursing) was honored with the W. Newton Long Award for the Advancement of Midwifery. This award honors the memory of Long, a longtime supporter of midwives, midwifery practice, and midwifery research in the diverse settings in which he practiced as an OB/GYN, such as the Indian Health Service, the Johns Hopkins Hospital…