Presentation: Linda Edwards, Jeffrey Stempel, Jean Sternlight, and Marketa Trimble
Linda Edwards (Law), Jeffrey Stempel (Law), Jean Sternlight (Law), and Marketa Trimble (Law) recently discussed their books at a continuing legal education event titled Academe Meets Bar. Edwards discussed her book, Readings in Persuasion: Briefs That Changed the World. Stempel talked about his book, Fundamentals of Litigation Practice.…
Steve Curtis (Harry Reid Center) received an $80,000 grant from the Nevada governor's economic development office for the integration and development of the screening information request (SIR) response to the Federal Aviation Administrations selection process for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test sites in the United States.
Gerald Egeland (Harry Reid Center) wrote a paper, "Letter to the Editors: Reducing Fuel-Cladding Chemical Interaction: The Effect of Palladium on Reactivity of Neodymium on Iron in Diffusion Couple," which was accepted by the Journal of Nuclear Materials.
P. Jane Hafen (English) edited a collection of scholarly essays, Critical Insights: Louise Erdrich. Among the contributors are Patrice Hollrah (Writing Center), Margaret Huettl (History), and William Huggins (English). Erdrich just won the National Book Award for her novel The Round House.
Janelle Droessler (Harry Reid Center) presented a poster, "The Direct Dissolution and Electrochemical Study of Uranium Oxide in Ionic Liquids," at a meeting of the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium at the University of California, Berkeley, in August. UNLV is a member of the consortium. She works on the research with John Kinyanjui (Harry…
Thomas Hartmann (Harry Reid Center) received an award from Los Alamos National Laboratory for the project Synthesis and Fabrication of Advanced Tc-99 Containing Ceramic Waste Form Pellets. The project budget target is $75,000. Another project, "Lanthanide Transport and Solubility Measurements" was continued through an additional $17,958 from the…
Daniel Lowe (Harry Reid Center) and Robert O'Brien (Harry Reid Center) received $48,000 from National Security Technologies for Task 45, the Support Forensic Prompt Program.
Charlotta Sanders (Harry Reid Center) and Denis Beller (Harry Reid Center) presented "Educating the Cybersecurity Nuclear Engineering Workforce" at the Cybersecurity Collaborations Symposium with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Security Technologies, and Mississippi State University in September.
International Student Overcomes Turbulent Start to Earn Dream Degree
Unexpected challenges couldn't keep Catherine Msumali from making it to UNLV and (finally) enrolling in Boyd Law’s gaming law and regulation grad program.
The associate director for Lee Business School's Career and Professional Development Office uses her experiences as both a faculty member and alum to mentor students.