Tish Smyer, Tricia Gatlin, Rhigel Tan, Marianne Tejada, and Du Feng (all Nursing) co-authored “Academic Outcome Measures of a Dedicated Education Unit Over Time: Help or Hinder,” which appeared in November/December 2015 issue of Nurse Educator. The article examined a study focused on whether students placed on a dedicated education unit achieved…

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) brought her intersex expertise, both professional and personal, to the CBS daytime audience as a special expert guest on the Dr. Phil television show Nov. 30. In addition to publishing numerous articles on intersex in both scholarly and popular press outlets, she is the author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious…

Brian Hedlund (Life Sciences) recently received an $876,229 National Science Foundation grant for his project, "Collaborative Proposal: Biodiversity Discovery and Analysis of 'Aigarchaeota', a Globally Distributed But Poorly Understood Archaeal Lineage." The grant is for three years.    

Jessica Doolen (Nursing) earned the 2015 Nurse of the Year award in the education category from the Nevada chapter of the March of Dimes. Doolen teaches in the school’s undergraduate and the graduate programs, and is the educational director at the Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas on the Shadow Lane campus. She has been a full-time faculty…

Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) delivered the 2015 George Herbert Mead Lecture during the annual convention of National Communication Association (NCA) at the Rio Conference Center in November. Borer’s lecture was titled, “Sensuous Knowledge and the Rise of Aesthetic Urbanism.” In the lecture, he noted that cities are chock full of…

Guogen Shan (Environmental and Occupational Health) is the author of a book, Exact Statistical Inference for Categorical Data, that has been published by Academic Press. The book is a comprehensive review of conditional and unconditional exact approaches to statistical inference and presents the advantages of using exact inference in data…

Cristina Hernandez (Nidetch Women's Center) recently was elected to the board of the Nevada Network Against Domestic Violence (NNADV) as a community at-large member for a three-year term (2016-2018). NNADV's purpose "is to help Nevada’s communities respond creatively and effectively to the needs of domestic violence victims. We do this by…

Heidi Johnson (Libraries) was selected as one of three first-year academic librarian bloggers for the Association of College & Research Libraries’ blogging site, ACRLog. Read her first entry.  

Barb Brents (Sociology)  participated in the panel on California Prostitution Law at Stanford University on Nov 11. Other panelists were Casey Bates, deputy district attorney for California's  Alameda County; Maxine Doogan, president of the Erotic Sex Providers Legal, Education and Research Project; and Shelby Quast, policy director for…