Karla Irwin (Libraries) presented the paper "Costume Design in the Archives: Descriptive Challenges and Solutions" at the Performing Arts Roundtable at the Society of American Archivists’ annual meeting. She also gave a poster presentation, "Improving Collection Access Through Standardization of Legacy Descriptions in ArchivesSpace," at the…

Elizabeth Baldizan (Educational Outreach) has been honored with the designation of Emerita status by UNLV President Len Jessup in recognition of her distinguished service to the university. Baldizan retired Aug. 31 after serving UNLV for nearly 20 years. She previously was the executive director for Community2Campus, a unit she developed from the…

Margot Mink Colbert (Dance) was honored to have been invited to participate in UNLV’s first annual Summer Proposal Writing Institute, which took place in June. Five workshop sessions culminated in a grant submission to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a project in the dance department. “100 Years and Beyond: Contemporary Ballet in the…

Su Kim Chung (Libraries) was elected vice chair/chair-elect of the reference, access, and outreach (RAO) section of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) in July. SAA is the oldest and largest national archival professional association in North America. She was chair of the organization's Committee on Archives, Libraries, and Museums from 2012-…

Scott Abella (Life Sciences) recently received two grants. One is a three-year, $115,000 grant from the National Park Service (NPS). He is working with the southwest exotic plant management team of the NPS to plan, write,  and execute three restoration plans for two national parks. There will be two plans for Guadalupe Mountains…

Frederic Poineau (Chemistry and Biochemistry) recently received a three-year, $640,000 Nuclear Energy University Programs (NEUP) grant. The grant supports his work investigating the thermochemistry of used fuel zirconium cladding components chlorides as well as their activation products and residual radionuclide metal chlorides. The research…

Raegen Pietrucha (Libraries) won the 2015 Two of Cups Press Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her chapbook manuscript, An Animal I Can’t Name, will be published in 2016.  

Margot Mink Colbert and Dolly Kelepecz Momot (both Dance) toured “Echoes and Tales,” a program of original dance works performed in Copenhagen, Denmark,  at the Dansekapellet Theatre in June.  The performing company included UNLV Dance major graduates Kaileigh O’Neill, Shannon Redfield, and Hailey Wood; New York  choreographer…

Ye Li and Bing Zhang (both Physics & Astronomy) recently published an article titled, "Can Life Survive Gamma-Ray Bursts in the High-Redshift Universe" in the Sept. 1 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. The work also was cited in a recent article in New Scientist.   In this paper, they investigated the “habitability” of…