Reimund Serafica (Nursing) was named president-elect of the Asian American Pacific Islander Nurses Association of Nevada for the 2018-2019 term. The association’s newly-formed Nevada chapter strives to positively affect the health and well-being of Asian American Pacific Islanders and their communities throughout the Silver State. Serafica…

John Starkey's (Business) BUS 103 class raised $5,063 during the 2018 spring semester. The money will benefit four charities chosen by the students: Southern Nevada Children First, Veterans Village Las Vegas, The Trauma Intervention Program of Southern Nevada and Jobs for Nevada's Graduates. Students who participated in this semester's…

Won-Yong Oh (Business) and his co-authors' paper "Intragroup Transactions, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Philanthropy in Korean Business Groups" was published in the Journal of Business Ethics.  This study examines how the corporate philanthropy decisions of group-affiliated firms in Korea (Chaebol firms) are made. Journal of Business…

Dr. Joshua J. Goldman, chief resident in the UNLV School of Medicine Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, has been writing, for the last six months, on the subjects of medical student, resident, and physician wellness. His work has been featured on Doximity and KevinMD. His most recent piece, published on…

Chris Utterback (Finance) received the 2017-2018 Partner of the Year Award from the  Las Vegas chapter of the International Association of Insurance Professionals for the development of the insurance classes that he teaches at the Lee Business School.

Chelsea Heinbach, Brittany Fiedler, Rosan Mitola, and Melissa Bowles-Terry (University Libraries) recently presented at the 46th Annual LOEX Conference in Houston.  Heinbach, Fiedler, and Mitola presented "Interinstitutional Student Success: An Asset-oriented Inquiry into Transfer Students." The discussion focused on ways the libraries can…

Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute) was invited to give a keynote address at the GamiFIN Conference in Pori, Finland. At this academic-meets-industry games research conference, Abarbanel's presentation focused on the convergence of video games and gambling. 

David F. Damore, William E. Brown, Jr., and Robert E. Lang wrote a new policy brief for The Lincy Institute, "The 2017 Session of the Nevada Legislature and the Failure of Higher Education Reform." In the piece, the authors analyze 11 bills introduced during the 79th Session of the Nevada Legislature that proposed to reorganize,…

Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) accepted an invitation to speak during the Asian Organizational Conference’s "Global History of Health Project: Health, Disease, and Lifestyle" at Jilin University in Changchun, China, where he presented “Oral Disease and Pathologies Across the Lifespan,” which was co-authored by colleagues Dr. Victoria Woo and Dr. Joshua…