Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) was cited as a climate change expert in a Variety article published Sept. 16 about the increased media coverage of climate change topics. 

Toni Repetti (Hospitality) recently received the Women in Lodging Member of the Year award from the Nevada Hotel & Lodging Association (NHLA). The award recognizes a member of the NHLA Women in Lodging (WIL) division who has contributed substantially to the growth, productivity, and visibility of WIL. 

Hokwon Cho (Math) and Zhou Wang, '15 PhD Mathematical Sciences, recently published a paper, "On Fixed-Width Confidence Limits for the Risk Ratio with Sequential Sampling," in the American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences.  

Dr. Sophia Saeed (Dental) is the lead investigator, along with two student mentees and a colleague from another university, on a study called “High Depression Prevalence in Dental Students Associated with Lifestyle Characteristics.” Their findings were presented at the Diversity and Inclusion Workshop held by the American Dental…

Courtney Jones (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) will be presenting a workshop this month at Sister Song's Let's Talk About Sex! conference in Atlanta. The conference focuses on intersecting topics of reproductive justice, sexual health, resources, healing, and more. The theme this year is "Accountability,…

Aaron Cowan, Fawn Douglas, Erin K. Drew, John McVay, and Laurence Myers Reese (all Art) have created REVIVER, a new performance art event hosted on the UNLV campus. This recurring event will feature UNLV students and local performers in a university setting. Performance art, which is art that combines visual art with dramatic performance, has a…

Ruby Nugent and Aidy Weeks (both Libraries) will be presenting during a webinar, "Tips and Tricks for Successful Onsite Academic Interviews," sponsored by the African American Medical Librarians Alliance Caucus of the Medical Library Association on Oct. 30 at 2 p.m. The free webinar is the second part of a series focused on empowering current…

In celebration of International Open Access Week, the University Libraries has announced five winners of the 2019 UNLV Open Access Awards. This year winners include: Brookings Mountain West in the category Non-Academic Departments With The Most Materials in the Institutional Repository William F. Harrah College of Hospitality in the…

Elizabeth Stacy and Tomoko Sakishima (both Life Sciences) have written a paper with coauthors Neil Snow of Pittsburgh State University and Heaven Tharp, an undergraduate student at the University of Hawaii, that recently was accepted for publication in the Journal of Heredity's Symposium Issue, "Origins of Adaptive Radiation." This issue…