Magdalena Martinez (The Lincy Institute and School of Public Policy and Leadership) recently was appointed by the Nevada Legislative Hispanic Caucus to serve on a subcommittee examining the education digital divide of students in the Nevada. This subcommittee is charged with identifying what local and state policies can be implemented to minimize…

Dr. Kate Martin (Medicine) recently published a piece in JAMA Neurology titled, “A Future We Must Dare to Imagine,” detailing the struggles her late disabled brother had getting proper health care. "Some of the most vulnerable members of our society depend on us for their well-being. The future is ours to imagine."  

Melissa Bowles-Terry (Faculty Affairs) has been chosen as the 2020 recipient of the Library Instruction Round Table Librarian Recognition Award. The Library Instruction Round Table is a part of the American Library Association. The Librarian Recognition Award was created to recognize an individual’s contribution to the development,…

Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) recently was selected as Distinguished Alumnus-Academia by the agricultural leadership, and community education department in the College of Agricultural Life Sciences at Virginia Tech. He obtained his doctorate in agricultural science education at Virginia Tech in 1984.

Payal Sharma (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology), along with co-author Rachel Strum, recently had a paper, "Becoming Powerful at Work," accepted by Organizational Dynamics, Special Issue on Power and Politics in Organizations. 

Boo Shan Tseng (Life Sciences) received an NIH/NV-INBRE Developmental Research Project (DRP) award to study how Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterial pathogen that causes lung infections in immuno-compromised humans, forms antibiotic-resistant aggregates. The DRP award is for up to two years and a total amount of $223,000. 

Vanessa Nuñez (Sociology) has been recognized by the prestigious Ford Foundation with a dissertation fellowship honorable mention. She is a doctoral candidate.

Lawrence "Lars" R. Walker (Life Sciences) recently published a book, Comparative Plant Succession among Terrestrial Biomes of the World, which provides a comparative approach to plant succession among all terrestrial biomes and disturbances, helping to reveal generalizable patterns.  The Ecology, Biodiversity, and Conservation series presents…

Cory Rusinek (Chemistry) received an NIH/NV-INBRE Developmental Research Project (DRP) award. This NV INBRE DRP will use diamond microelectrodes for the detection of analytes associated with oxidative stress. In the long-term, this research hopes to lead to fundamental understanding of the role of oxidative stress at the cellular level and…