Assistant professor Renato Liboro (Psychology) is this year's recipient of the Top Tier Award. Liboro actively contributes to several core area of UNLV’s Top Tier 2.0 initiatives, including Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity; Community Partnerships; Student Achievement; Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion; UNLV Academic…

Joseph Morgan (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), Ph.D., is the recipient of this year's Outstanding Department Chair Award. Morgan is professor and chair of the Department of Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education. He is being recognized for his strong leadership skills, effective administration,…

Brian Hedlund (Life Sciences), Ph.D., is this year's recipient of the Distinguished Professor Award. Hedlund, who is a professor in the School of Life Sciences, has been at UNLV for 20 years and is an extremely productive researcher and dedicated teacher, with a strong commitment to professional service. According to one of his nominators,…

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) presented the paper, "Affinity Between Mathematics and Hinduism," at the annual meeting of American Academy of Religion/Western Region, a multidisciplinary conference. The meeting was held at UNLV on March 15-17, 2024. The paper is available upon request.

Alain Bengochea and Tracey West (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented "Monolingual & multilingual in-service teachers’ conceptualization of translanguaging pedagogy in a teacher preparation program" in a paper session at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference. Employing systemic functional…

Joseph Kevin Sebastian (Libraries) was appointed to the Stonewall Book Awards Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award committee. Sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table, the Stonewall Awards are given annually to books of exceptional merit that feature LGBTQIA+ experiences. Sebastian is the teaching and learning…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) was a coauthor among Global Nervous System Collaborators who published a study, "Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021," in The Lancet Neurology (Impact factor 48.0…

Christina Miskey (Libraries) is a member of the Open Research Funder's Group (ORFG) PID Strategy Working Group, which has recently published a report, "Developing a U.S. PID National Strategy," which outlines the desirable characteristics of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and sets the foundation for a cohesive US national strategy. Christina, along…

Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) published "'Educational Facials': A Healing Tool for the Beautiful Struggle" with coauthor Michelle Cody.