Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) published the article "California DREAM: The Impact of Financial Aid for Undocumented Community College Students" in Educational Researcher. The study shows that providing relatively low-cost fee waivers significantly expanded college opportunity for undocumented high school…

Charlotta Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) and Mark Callis Sanders are co-authors of a paper, “Two Roads in a Yellow Wood: Consent or Science Based Siting,” which has been accepted for publication and will be presented at the American Nuclear Society-sponsored International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management 2019 Conference, which will be…

Marcus Civin (Art), Pete Reyes (Academic Resources), Clarence Gilyard (Film), and Nevada Conservatory Theatre (Theatre) all were recognized by Desert Companion/NPR in their "Best of the City 2019" issue in February. All were included in the Arts + Entertainment section. Civin was selected as "Best Figure in Local Culture," while Reyes was selected…

Hans Rawhouser (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) and Erin Hamilton (Accounting), along with Michael Cummings (University of Arkansas) and Silvio Vismara (University of Bergamo) recently had a paper, "An Equity Crowdfunding Research Agenda: Evidence from Stakeholder Participation in the Rulemaking Process" accepted at a top…

UNLV School of Dental Medicine hosted professor XiaoDong Chen and students Yifan Wang, Yunbo Wang, and Zhang Xi from Nankai University in Tainjin, China, to participate in lectures, learn about evidence-based education, and observe the delivery of dental care. The two institutions established a collaborative relationship during 2012 designed to…

Rei Serafica (Nursing) is the lead author of a recently published article, "The Use of Mobile Health to Assist Self-management and Access to Services in a Rural Community" in the Journal of Computers, Informatics, Nursing: CIN. The purpose of the study was to explore the barriers to and needs for using mobile health technology to assist low income…

Chelsea Heinbach, Brittany Paloma Fiedler, and Rosan Mitola (all Libraries) had an article, "Dismantling Deficit Thinking: A Strengths-based Inquiry into the Experiences of Transfer Students in and out of Academic Libraries," published by the open-access journal In the Library with the Lead Pipe. The article, which was co-authored by UNLV…

Karen G. Harry (Anthropology) and Barbara J. Roth (Faculty Affairs) have an edited book, Interaction and Connectivity in the Greater Southwest, published through the University Press of Colorado.

Seong Park (Criminal Justice) recently published two articles. With collaborator Yongoh Hong (Korean Institute of Criminology), he published the article, "The Effect of Economic Inequality on Individual Violence in South Korea: A Comparative SEM Analysis of Relative Deprivation Theory and Strain Theory." Published in the Journal of Korean…