Amanda Sokolowsky, Erika Marquez, Erin Sheehy, Casey Barber, and Shawn Gerstenberger (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently authored "Health Hazards in the Home: An Assessment of a Southern Nevada Community," which appeared in the February issue of Journal of Community Health. The study focused on health outcomes in…

Dieu-My Tran (Nursing) co-authored “Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among College Students: Knowledge, Perception, and Risk Assessment,” which concluded high knowledge level of cardiovascular risk factors was not sufficient to lower potential risks within the study population, but changing perception of those factors may play a bigger role in reducing…

Joseph Lombardo (National Supercomputing Institute) received a total of $301,625 from the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. Lombardo currently serves as the Core-PI on the National Institutes of Health’s Center of Biomedical Research Excellence award titled “Center for Neurodegeneration and Transcranial Neuroscience (CNTN)’s Data…

At the first ever Clexacon the weekend of March 3-5, a convention bringing "together a diverse group of LGBTQ fans and content creators from around the world," Erika Gisela Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender and Ethnic Studies), co-presented Who Will Read, Write or Buy our Happily Ever Afters"with UNLV Gender and Sexuality students Nicole…

Roberto C. Orozco (Student Engagement & Diversity) authored Fostering Nepantla Practice; Fomentando la Práctica de Nepantla which encourages student affairs professionals to engage in self-reflection, authenticity, and critically conscious work. The paper was published in the Spring 2017 Edition of the NASPA Gender and Sexuality…

Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) was quoted in "Escape Rooms Like The Basement Quickly Growing in Las Vegas Popularity" — a Las Vegas Review-Journal article. Among other scholarly contributions, Borer is the author of Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America’s Most Beloved Ballpark (NYU Press, 2008).

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) published "'Essentiae' en Ficino y en el Quijote: Las letras y la preceptiva cervantina" in Cervantes ayer y hoy, a volume of essays on Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes edited by Nuria Morgado and Lía Schwartz, and published by the Hispanic Society of America in New York.

Christine Springer (Public Policy and Leadership) was a plenary speaker for the DRI 2017 Professionals Conference in February. She addressed emergency management and homeland security degrees nationwide, the ECEM (executive master of science in crisis and emergency management) degree that she helped start and manages and also where the emergency…

Elena Gandía García (World Languages and Cultures) has been awarded UNLV's Division of Educational Outreach Faculty Excellence Award for 2017. Her efforts will be formally recognized at an awards ceremony April 19.