Katie Cannata (Journalism and Media Studies), Lee Hanover (History), Bella Victoria Smith (Interdisciplinary Studies), and Manuela Bowles (English) recently received the Lance and Elena Calvert Undergraduate Research Award. Given by UNLV's University Libraries, the award recognizes original research and sophisticated critical thinking skills…

P. Jane Hafen (English) and Patrice Hollrah (Writing Center) are members of the American Indian Alliance (AIA) who attended the Native American Literature Symposium (NALS) in Albuquerque in March. As Clan Mothers of NALS, they help to organize the symposium, arrange the book and vendor exhibit, confer literary awards, present papers, and mentor…

John Bowers (English) delivered the keynote presentation "Tolkien at Merton College" to the annual meeting of the Merton College Charitable Corporation convened at the Brooklyn Law School in April. He appeared at the invitation of the host, Nick Allard, dean of the Brooklyn Law School. Among the dignitaries present was the warden of Oxford's…

Manoucheka Celeste (Interdisciplinary Degree Programs) is featured in the article "Haitian Renewal" in the Feb. 12 edition of Diverse Issues in Higher Education. The article highlights the growing field of Haitian studies and includes experts in the field who weigh in on the important contributions and future of Haitian studies. She is an elected…

Erin Rinto (Libraries) and Elisa Cogbill-Seiders (English) are the authors of "Library Instruction and Themed Composition Courses: An Investigation of Factors that Impact Student Learning." It was published in the January issue of The Journal of Academic Librarianship.  

Jordan Watkins (Graduate College) is the recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation Award. He is pursuing a doctoral degree in history. His dissertation is titled "Slavery, Sacred Texts, and the Antebellum Confrontation with History."

Miriam Melton-Villanueva (History) has been awarded the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is completing her book manuscript, The Aztecs at Independence: Culture Keeping in Central Mexico 1799-1832, on the campus of UCLA this academic year and will return to UNLV in the fall.

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.…

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…

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…

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…