Ashley Doughty (Art) is included in the College Book Arts Association Members' Juried Exhibition, Intersections: Book Arts as Convergence, at the Carroll Gallery at Tulane University through Feb. 6. It celebrates the crossroads, overlaps, conversations, and potential for shared experience and expansion. Her recent books are about procreation and…

John Mercer (Kinesiology) gave a presentation at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, titled "Bridging the Gap Between Research and Application."

Jennifer Vanderlaan (Nursing) recently was appointed to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee for Nevada. This committee, which was established during the 80th legislative session, examines the state's mortality and morbidity rates among pregnant women and presents recommendations to the Legislature on how to respond.       

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a policy report exploring the psychology of national defense among Taiwanese people. In the report, Wang conducted and analyzed survey experiments to estimate multiple factors linking to the rational and irrational calculation on the potential military conflicts. Military experience,…

Jennifer Jaimes (Hospitality) received two separate Best Paper Awards from the Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium and UNLV’s Honors College for her thesis paper on “Influence of Guest Room Technologies on Generation Z’s Booking Decision.”

The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Construction has received a $100,000 grant from the National Housing Endowment to start a certificate program in residential construction.

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) has received a $49,978 award from the William T. Grant Foundation for his project, "Embedded Counseling for Community College Students in ESL Programs: A Case Study at an Immigrant-Serving Institution." As ESL students may be more unfamiliar with college than their peers and face…

Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) was an invited speaker at the 2019 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Anaheim, California. Her talk, "A Lot of Nerve! Evolutionary Mechanisms of Neural Regeneration," presented her laboratory group's recent research studies on vertebrate eye regeneration. 

The UNLV chapter of Phi Kappa Phi has received the Circle of Excellence Silver status for 2019-20. The Circle of Excellence Awards Program recognizes chapters for their work in promoting excellence on the local campus and engaging the community of scholars each year.