Berenice Chavez (Film) was nominated for three Pacific Southwest Emmy Awards in the student category for her short documentaries, Passing the Torch and North to Paradise, which were made in the Documentary Techniques class at UNLV. Two nominations are for producing and one is for editing. She will be attending the awards ceremony this month in San…

Stephen Caplan (Music) is the author of The Breathing Book for Oboe. Published by Mountain Peak Music, it has received endorsements from some of the world's leading oboe players, described as a "must-read for oboists of all levels."

UNLV Latin Jazz Ensemble and UNLV Jazz Ensemble I (both Music) won awards at the 2014 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival in California in March. The Latin Jazz Ensemble, directed by Uli Geissendoerfer, won second place in the Open Combo Division and Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Dave Loeb , garnered a third place award in the College Big Band…

Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez (Architecture) has been invited as an expert speaker to address two workshops in China. The first, organized by China's National Energy Administration and funded by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat, is titled "Low Carbon Model Town Development Index System." The second workshop, "New Skins of Green…

David Schmoeller (Film) is a writer-director who was the guest speaker at the art house Music Box Theater in Chicago in October where his feature film Crawlspace (1986) and his short film documentary Please Kill Mr. Kinski (1999) were screened. Both films star Klaus Kinski. He also is the writer-director of Little Monsters (2012).

Randall Stout (Architecture) was featured along with other established and emerging architects, including Frank Gehry, Franklin D. Israel, Thom Mayne, Michael Rotondi, and Eric Owen Moss in The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA) exhibit A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California. The exhibit, which was…

Peter Jakubowski (Dance) has been engaged to design the new signature work for the Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH). The work he is doing is choreographed by Thaddeus Davis and Tanya Wideman and will premiere in Washington, D.C., this month. Its topic is the Harlem renaissance and how the rebirth of DTH, which had closed its doors for a few years,…

Jonathon Anderson (Architecture) recently was awarded a 2013-14 Platinum A' Design Award for his installation, Opx2. The installation explores a symbiotic relationship between nature and technology - where patterns, repetition, and rhythm describe both natural formations and operations of computing processes. The Platinum A' Design Award is a…

Firas Al-Douri (Architecture) wrote an article, "Assessment of the Methods and Extents of the Usage of Urban Modeling in Urban Design Practice in U.S. cities," that appeared in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. The research suggested a methodological framework underlying the methods of using various urban modeling functionalities.

Brackley Frayer (Theatre) is designing the lighting for the musical Sugar, which is being directed by Tony Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Glenn Casale (Theatre) at the California Music Circus in Sacramento. The show opens Aug. 23.

Kevin Kemner (Architecture), Jenifer Utz (Life Sciences), Louis Kavouras (Dance), Daniel Bubb (Academic Assessment), and Lindsay Couzens (Academic Assessment) recently made a presentation at the Association for the Assessment of Higher Learning Education's annual Assessment Conference in Lexington, Ky. The presentation demonstrated how a series of…

Jazz Studies Program (Music) received three prestigious DownBeat Magazine 36th Annual Student Music Awards in the June issue. UNLV Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Dave Loeb and Nathan Tanouye, received the Large Ensemble Graduate College Outstanding Performance award along with the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Lab Band I and the Cal State…