Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) recently was honored with the David K. Stotlar Award at the 2017 Sport Marketing Association (SMA) Conference in Boston. The purpose of the Stotlar Award is to honor and recognize a sport marketing educator who reflects the mission of the SMA through the promotion and advancement of…

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) presented a paper titled "Contrast Conceptions: (Alex) North and the South" at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in Rochester, New York. The AMS is the largest and most significant musicological society in North America, and its meetings attract top scholars in the field from around the world. Lee…

Cara Cole (Art) is presenting photographic work at High Noon Gallery, 106 Eldridge Street. New York, NY, Nov. 15-Dec. 10 with the exhibition opening at 6 p.m. Nov. 16. Cole’s complex photographic images both enchant and disturb, and their layered and accomplished surfaces reveal the kinds of experiences we have too few images of, and…

Heather Lusty (Honors) presented at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference in Honolulu. Her paper, "'Hold Your Heathen Hammer High': Nordic Culture and Identity in Contemporary Music," explores how contemporary Scandinavian musicians have crafted subgenres (Viking and folk metal) that draw from Nordic mythologies and…

The School of Social Work participates in Nevada Partnership for Training (NPT) along with UNR, the Nevada Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS), Washoe County Social Services (WCSS), and Clark County Department of Family Services (CCDFS), to develop and support the child welfare workforce.  Earlier this year, DCFS increased the grant…

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition) published four invited book chapters in a series titled Biomarkers in Disease: Methods, Discoveries and Applications published by Springer this year. It is the most comprehensive evidence-based text on this topic. These book chapters are based on the original published research by Basu and her colleagues in…

Dr. Michael Webberson (Dental) performed an evolving surgical procedure via live broadcast during the American Academy of Implant Dentistry annual meeting in San Diego. Titled “Guided Implant Placement Utilizing Ossendensification Burs: A Live Surgery,” the procedure demonstrated the use of a computer-generated surgical guide with a newly designed…

Alain Bengochea (Educational & Clinical Studies) co-authored "An Emergent Bilingual Child’s Multimodal Choices in Sociodramatic Play," which explored how a preschool-age bilingual child engages with multimodal resources to participate in sociodramatic play discourses. The article appeared in Journal of Early Childhood Literacy this month..

Lung-Chang Chien and Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented their research at the 2018 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta. Their presentation was about predicting zika virus infection outbreak by using meteorological measurements and identifying where vulnerable people lived in Colombia from 2015-…