Cindy X. Kha (Life Sciences) was selected by the Nevada Space Grant Consortium to receive the prestigious Nevada NASA Space Grant Graduate Research Opportunity Fellowship for 2020-21. This highly selective award is focused on innovation through projects that will generate advancements in STEM that will directly contribute to NASA’s current and…

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) received the American Society for Legal History Small Grant to conduct digital research during the COVID-19 pandemic for her project, “Saving The Bad Kids, Caging Los Chicos Malos: Juvenile Justice and Racialized Surveillance in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1900-1970." She is a doctoral candidate.

Demecina Beehn (Art) presented "Can We Talk About This? On Diversity in Art Curation in this Cultural Moment" with Sheila Goloborotko of the University of North Florida. The program focuses on creating diverse art exhibitions from the ground up and the push to make cultural institutions anti-racist and is part of the virtual programming of the…

Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business) and Robyn Raschke (Accounting) recently were included in a Forbes article, “Covid-19 The Opportunity For Business Schools To Think Creatively,” which featured the findings from their paper, “The Story Only Few Can Tell: Exploring the Disproportionately Gendered Professoriate in Business Schools…

Jennifer L. Rennels, Andrea J. Kayl, and Kirsty M. Kulhanek (all Psychology) published an article, "Individual Differences in Infants’ Temperament Affect Face Processing" in Brain Sciences for a special issue on The Study of Eye Movements in Infancy. This research demonstrates how infants' surgency and orienting affect their face…

Jin Ouk Choi and Binit K. Shrestha (both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) published a paper, "Facility Design Standardization Decision-Making Model for Industrial Facilities and Capital Projects" in the Journal of Management in Engineering published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Shrestha is a…

Nicole Hudson (Online Education) has been accepted to the Online Learning Consortium's Institute for Emerging Leaders in Online Learning (IELOL) 2020 cohort. The program is in its 12th year and this year is completely virtual, commencing in July and concluding in November. 

Dr. Lily T. Garcia (Dental) and Angela Amar (Nursing) accepted an invitation by Las Vegas City Councilman Brian Knudsen to appear on the city’s Access City Council program and share their thoughts about Southern Nevadans returning to their health care providers. They also discussed the multiple steps medical offices take to ensure safety during…

Dr. Linh Nguyen (Dental) is a former infectious disease epidemiologist for the Southern Nevada Health District. She is a member of a dedicated team at UMC and has been analyzing COVID-19 test swabs since late May. The UMC COVID-19 testing laboratories have the capacity to conduct 10,000 tests each day, which contributes to the preparation of…