Misty Fogg (Financial Aid and Scholarships) recently made a presentation at the Western Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (WASFAA) in Anchorage, Alaska. The topic was "Sound Documentation Practices for Financial Aid Professionals." She is the assistant director of processing in her department.

David G. Schwartz (Center for Gaming Research) presented a talk, "Inside the Minds of Table Games Managers," which shared the insights gleaned from the Center for Gaming Research's table games manager oral history project and the resulting book, Tales from the Pit, at the June meeting of the Southern Nevada Casino Chip and Gaming Token Collectors.

Liam Frink (Research and Economic Development) is the author of A Tale of Three Villages (University of Arizona Press, 2016), an investigation of culture change among the Yup'ik Eskimo people of the southwestern Alaskan coast from just prior to the time of Russian and Euro-North American contact to the mid-twentieth century. Frink focuses on…

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) has been selected by the American Sociological Association (ASA) Medical Sociology Section as the 2016 recipient of the Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology. Her selection is based, in part, on her recent book Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis.     This is the…

Jennifer Gray (Student Affairs) presented "Developing Performance Standards for Business Partners" at the 2016 National Association of College Auxiliary Services (NACAS) West & Central Joint Regional Conference in Boulder, Colorado. She also was elected as a NACAS West Region 1 Director.

Heather Monteiro and Daniel McLean (both Hotel) won second place in the 2016 ICHRIE  (International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education) Johnson and Wales Case Study Competition for their educational case study, "Making the Case for DineSafe: Incorporating Analytics into Managerial Decision-making in the Hospitality…

Frank Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) received an invitation to attend the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ meeting in Beijing that convened to formulate plans for a space radiation research program. He was one of only two non-Chinese scientists invited to provide recommendations on possible research goals. 

Susanna Newbury (Art) has published "Playtime," an essay exploring studio sets and the physical meditation of process at the heart of artist Barbara Kasten's photographic practice, in X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly (Summer 2016). "Barbara Kasten: Stages," a major retrospective of the artist's work, is on view at the…

Danny Young (Physical Therapy) was awarded a part-time faculty fellowship with the Center on Health Services Training and Research (CoHSTAR). During the 18-month program, he will work with his mentor, Alan Jette from Boston University, on acute hospital, physical therapy outcomes research. CoHSTAR is a first-of-its-kind center of excellence…