Marcia Gallo (History) is the author of "No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy, which was published in April. In this, her second book, Gallo examines one of America's most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York.…

Cory Lampert and Silvia Southwick (both Libraries) have had a book chapter, "On the Brink of Linked Open Data: Evolving Workflows and Staff Expertise," recently published in the book Cutting-Edge Research in Developing the Library of the Future: New Paths for Building Future Services by Bradford Lee Eden (editor). The book was published this year…

Su Kim Chung (Libraries) earned her Ph.D in Information Studies from UCLA in March and will receive her doctoral hood this month at the UCLA graduation ceremony. Chung's dissertation, "'We Seek to Be Patient': Jeanne Wier and the Nevada Historical Society, 1904-1950," explores how Wier shaped a public historical culture in the state of Nevada.

Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) presented "Strengths-based Leadership and Team Building" to the Ethnic Minorities and Women in Coaching and Leadership Conference at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in May. She followed that with a presentation on "Media Representation and Marketing of Women Athletes" at the FLAME (…

Nancy Fawley, Samantha Godbey, Sue Wainscott, and Xan Goodman (all Libraries) contributed book chapters to Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians, edited by Hazel McClure, Gayle Schaub, and Patricia Bravender. Fawley wrote "Determining the Relevance and Reliability of Information Sources." Goodman penned "…

In spring 2014, the office of housing and residential life established a sustainability team to educate residents and promote sustainability in the residence halls. In February and March, the residence halls competed in the Campus Conservation Nationals. This year, 345,000 students and staff members from 125 schools participated in CCN, the world'…

Michael Frazier, UNLV University Libraries Library Technician II, was named the UNLV Classified Employee of the Month for April 2015. Frazier was originally recognized for the invaluable role he played in creating a successful partnership between the Preservation Lab and the Libraries Acquisition and Resource Sharing units, which resulted in the…

Melissa Bowles-Terry (head of Educational Initiatives at UNLV University Libraries) and Erin Rinto (UNLV University Libraries undergraduate learning librarian) recently presented at the Library Orientation Exchange (LOEX) Conference, the premier national conference for those interested in library instruction. Their presentation, "Taste Testing…

Law professor Ruben Garcia presented "The Constitutional Right to a Minimum Wage'" at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, May 30, in Seattle. Garcia also co-chaired the activities of the association's Collaborative Research Network (CRN8) on Labor Rights.