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…

David Schwartz (Center for Gaming Research) made numerous presentations in 2014, including "Getting the Mob Out: How Changes in Nevada Law Helped Push Organized Crime Out of Nevada Gaming," sponsored by the UNLV Gaming Law Society and Criminal Law Society; "Today's Gaming Trends," held at the Bob Maheu First Wednesday Lunch at the Las Vegas…

Howard Gordon (Teaching & Learning) was named president of the Association for Career and Technical Education Research at the recent 2014 conference in Nashville, Tenn. He will serve a two-year term of office.

Linda Lister, Stephanie Weiss, Lillian Roberts, Xavier Brown, and Cheyna Alexander (all Music) of UNLV Opera won in two categories at the National Opera Association Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition, which took place at the national convention in Greensboro, N.C. in January. UNLV Opera won in both the graduate and musical theatre divisions.

Ryan Larsen (International Programs) was given the Outstanding Service in International Education Award for his dedication to study abroad by NAFSA: Association of International Educators at the Region XII annual conference in November.

Andrew Murtishaw (Psychology) recently won first place in a graduate student research competition sponsored by the Southern Nevada section of the American Chemical Society for his research titled, "Chronic LPS-induced Inflammatory Response in a Diabetic Model of Alzheimer's Disease." His research in the Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory of…

Monica Bolton, Chelcie Heaney, Andrew Murtishaw, and Jefferson Kinney (all Psychology) recently published the article, "Postnatal Alterations in GABAB Receptor Tone Produce Sensorimotor Gating and Protein Level Differences in Adulthood." Bolton works in the Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory of professor Kinney and this is her second manuscript…