The Office of Decision Support has been recognized as the third place winner of the 2024 SAS Recognition Awards in the category of Innovate Problem Solver. This work is related to the MSI Equity Dashboard that is now available in UNLVAnalytics. Vice President for Student Affairs Keith Rogers, Joy Mariscal, Nikolina Pender, and Kanikka Wofford…

Amanda Koziura (Libraries) is co-author of a chapter, "Maintenance as a Core Value: Recommendations for Increasing Gender Equity on Digital Scholarship Teams" published in the book, Toxic Dynamics: Disrupting, Dismantling, and Transforming Academic Library Culture. Koziura is as associate professor and head of Scholarly Communication &…

Timothy Erwin (English) received the 2024 Faculty Award from the UNLV Academic Success Center. He published “Discourses of the Eye: Romeo and Juliet and Hogarth’s Marriage A la Mode” in a recent festschrift, Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment, and presented “Rhetoric, Artifice, and Iconoclasm” at the meeting of the American Society…

Daniel Chi (Finance) recently wrote a guest column for Las Vegas Weekly/Vegas Inc.  He offered advice on building financial resilience: live within your means, save, and invest. Chi also introduced to the community the financial-literacy courses offered at UNLV – FIN 111 and FIN 112. The first covers a broad range of foundational topics; the…

Katherine Howard, Kate Hendricks, Tyler Hatch, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental) published their manuscript, "Screening for Selenomonas noxia in a Pediatric and Adolescent Patient Population Reveals Differential Oral Prevalence across Age Groups," in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 

John M. Bowers (English) has been invited to be a Member of the Expert Panel for the Bellagio Center Residency Program sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy.  

Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) has been recognized as a finalist for the prestigious SSSP C. Wright Mills Award for her book, Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times. The award committee considered 108 books for this award and will announce the winner in August at the annual conference in Montreal, Quebec.

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-published a paper on "A confirmatory factor analysis of a revised motives for playing drinking games (MPDG-33) scale among university students in the United States" in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism. Participating in a drinking game (DG) is common practice among university students and can…

Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article titled, "Social Media, Cognitive Dysfunction, and Social Disruption," in the current issue of IEEE Computer.  Berghel offers an explanation of how social media created an existential crisis for society.