Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology) had her research featured in a Las Vegas Review -Journal article, "UNLV Researchers Tighten Link between Lack of Education, Child Deaths."

Eddy Hernandez (Life Sciences), a senior majoring in biology, was awarded a 2019 Station1 Frontiers Fellowship, which is a unique and prestigious 10-week residential summer science and technology education, research, and internship program based in the Boston area. He was selected from more than 800 applicants across the nation and the…

Billy Bai (Hospitality) and his co-authors, including Xi Leung, '12 PhD Hospitality Administration, received the Best Paper Award at the 2019 Annual ICHRIE (International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education) Conference for their paper "Virtual Reality in Hotel Commercials: An Experimental Study of Advertising…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published the article "Juridical Philology: Incest, Adultery, and the Law in Don Quijote" in a collection titled Sex and Gender in Cervantes: Sexo y género en Cervantes. Essays in Honor of Adrienne Laskier Martín. The volume has been issued by Editorial Reichenberger (2019).   …

Donald Jones (Accounting) wrote an article, "Business Entity Organization Form for the Entrepreneur: An Educational Insight," which was published in the August issue of Practical Tax Strategies.

Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) recently was appointed to serve on the American Educational Research Association Division  D Editorial Committee for a two-term position. Division D focuses on educational measurement, psychometrics, and assessment; quantitative methods and statistical theory as applied to educational research; and…

Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Biological Response to Peri-Implantitis Treatment,” which investigated biological markers of peri-implantitis (PIP) in crevicular fluid before and after surgical and antimicrobial therapy. The researchers concluded that elevated concentrations of interleukin-1β in peri-implant crevicular fluid (PICF) were…

P. Jane Hafen (English) and Brenden H. Rensink (Brigham Young University) co-edited Essays on American Indian and Mormon History, published by the University of Utah Press. With the aim of avoiding familiar narrative patterns of settler colonialism, the editors and contributors seek to make American Indians the subjects rather than the…

Amanda Melilli and Katherine Keller (both Libraries) presented at San Diego Comic-Con last week. Melilli moderated two panel discussions, "LGBTQ+ YA Graphic Novel" with panelists Rosemary Valero-Connell (Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me), Sarah Graley (Kim Reaper), Claudia Aguirre (Morning in America) and Lilah Sturges (Lumberjanes: The…