Nicole Thomas (Music) has been accepted to the Houston Grand Opera Young Artist Academy for summer 2015. A mezzo-soprano, she was accepted from a highly completive field of more than 1,000 singers. Singers are chosen by videotaped audition and recommendation only. The first UNLV student to be accepted into this program, she also was Nevada's first…

Balakrishnan Naduvalath (Chemistry) coauthored a paper, Quantum Dynamics of CO-H2 in Full Dimensionality, that appeared in Nature Communications in March.

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) received the award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, Post-Secondary Level, 2014 from the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, whose members are from Nevada, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. There is one award per year at the post-secondary level.…

Su Kim Chung (Special Collections) has been selected to participate in the 2015 Archives Leadership Institute (ALI). Twenty-five participants were chosen for the prestigious program through a competitive application process based on their leadership skills and potential, ability to influence policy and change within an organization and the…

UNLV Jazz Studies (Music) saw its performing groups invited to compete at the 58th annual Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival -- the sixth consecutive year that UNLV groups have received an invitation. The festival, which draws top student musicians from around the world, will take place this month in Monterey, Calif. UNLV's students will…

Andrew Murtishaw (Psychology) received a travel award given by the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS) to present his research at the IBNS 24th annual meeting, which will take place in Victoria, Canada, in June. Murtishaw, who works in professor Jefferson Kinney's Neuroscience Laboratory, researches several risk factors of…

Darcy Del Bosque and Susie Skarl (Libraries) are co-authors (with Sam Leif) of the article, "Libraries Atwitter: Trends in Academic Library Tweeting," which appeared in Reference Services Review. The article won two awards, the Highly Commended Award from the Literati Network Awards for Excellence, and the Reference Research Review Award from the…

Jefferson Kinney, Chelcie Heaney, Monica Bolton, and Andrew Murtishaw (Psychology) served as organizers and judges for the Nevada Brain Bee, a competition for high school students that took place in January. The winner was Liliveth Nunez from East Career and Technical Academy. She will be traveling to Maryland to represent Nevada in the National…

UNLV Libraries recently received a $100,000 grant through the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Library Services and Technology Act to fund the first year of a three-year Southern Nevada Jewish Community Digital Heritage Project. This comprehensive project, which launched in August 2014, will document the history of Las Vegas through the…