Allison Smith (Education); Rosemary Flores (School of Public Policy and Leadership); Monica Hernández-Johnson, Norma Marrun, Jori Beck, and Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) received $335,224 in funding from the Nevada department of education (NDE) Great Teaching and Learning Fund (GTLF) for their “Abriendo Caminos/…

Francis Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) received a five-year, $3.02 million RO1 grant from the National Cancer Institute for a project titled “Biophysical Description of Age and Dose Dependent Changes to Dendritic Morphology that Impact Cognition following Radiation Cancer Therapy.” The project includes work being conducted at…

David Baird (Architecture) recently won the Gold Rose Design Award from the Baton Rouge American Institute of Architects for an office renovation/addition completed this summer. About the project: This project is situated in the Historic Old South Baton Rouge neighborhood once referred to as the “bottoms” — the area strategically located between…

Julia Freedman Silvernail (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) received the 2016 Arthur Broten Young Scholar Award from the Western Society for Kinesiology & Wellness (WSKW). The society has bestowed the award since 1987 to full-time professionals during their first years of employment in a college or university related field of…

Patrick Griffis (University Libraries) is one of 42 participants selected to attend the 2016 American Library Association Leadership Institute in August. The prestigious, immersive leadership development institute is aimed at mid-career librarians with a record of community and campus involvement. In addition to his duties assisting students and…

Dana Bickmore and Patti Chance (both Educational Psychology & Higher Education) of the newly formed educational policy and leadership program in the College of Education, received a Great Teacher and Leader Fund grant from the Nevada department of education. In partnership with the Clark County School District (CCSD), the grant will provide…

Jay Shen, Chris Cochran, and Charles Moseley (all Health Care Administration and Policy) and Guogen Shan (Environmental and Occupational Health), published a paper, “Racial and Insurance Status Disparities in Patient Safety Indicators among Hospitalized Patients," in the summer issue of Ethnicity & Disease. Other co-authors are Olena Mazurenko…

Michelle Paul and Noelle Lefforge (both Psychology) have led postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students working at The PRACTICE in creating a pediatric panic and anxiety treatment program. The program uses evidence-based cognitive and behavioral interventions to treat children and adolescents with anxiety-related disorders. Launched in January,…

Michael Green, Eugene Moehring, Greg Hise, Andy Kirk, William Bauer, (all History), Claytee White, Su Kim Chung, (both Libraries) and Karen Harry (Anthropology), recently participated n a National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop in which 72 teachers from across the country studied "Hoover Dam and the…