Oliver Tschauner (Geoscience), was a coauthor on a paper titled,  "Shock synthesis of quasicrystals with implications for their origin in asteroid collisions," which was published in the advance online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Quasicrystals form only under very particular circumstances and…

Jennifer Keene and Takashi Yamashita (Sociology) recently completed the Nevada Volunteerism Research Initiative 2015 Survey Report. Nevada’s volunteer participation rate (20.7%) is one of the lowest and currently ranked 49th in the nation. The initiated team was — led by professor Jennifer Keene and assisted by professor Takashi…

James Pollard (Geoscience), program director of his department's partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service forest inventory and analysis (FIA) program, has entered into a new funding agreement with FIA for $1.5 million per year. This joint venture will enable UNLV researchers to continue…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures), was elected a "vocal" (spokesperson) to the Board of Directors of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (International Association of Hispanists) for the triennial period 2016-19.

Refika Turgut (Teaching and Learning) and Margarita Huerta (Educational and Clinical Studies), along with Elif Adibelli Sahin of TED University in Ankara, Turkey, recently published the manuscript "Changes in Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of Preparedness to Teach English Language Learners (ELLs) in Mainstream Classrooms" in the Journal of…

Dr. Karl Kingsley, Allison Tomlin, and Michael Sanders (all Dental) recently published the manuscript "The Effects of Cryopreservation on Human Dental Pulp-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells" in the journal, Biomaterials and Biomechanics in Bioengineering.

Mark Buttner and Patricia Cruz (both Environmental and Occupational Health) received a one-year, $1.2 million award from the Nevada department of health and human services to conduct molecular biological environmental monitoring.

Jillian Inouye and Nada Lukkahatai (Nursing) were part of a research team that received an Outstanding Oral Presentation Award for the project "Wearable Technology and Bio-psycho-social Measures of Symptom Burden" during the Optimizing Health Care Quality: Teamwork in Education, Research, and Practice Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand. More than…

P. Jane Hafen (English) and Brenden Rensink of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University recently directed a seminar on American Indians and Mormons. The participants reconsidered history and narrative with an emphasis on indigenous experience.