A reception honoring academic and administrative faculty who have achieved significant service milestones was held on Monday, Dec. 2, in the Lied Library Goldfield Room. More than 100 honorees and guests attended the reception, which included brief remarks by President Keith Whitfield and a trip down memory lane from Provost Chris Heavey of…

Jennifer McCarthy, Heidi Albrecht, and Bridget Saul (all Space Management) presented at the Campus FM Technology Association Conference in Pasadena, CA. Their presentation "Location! Location! Location! Where's Waldo?" discussed the process and implementation of assigning occupants to space in the Archibus Integrated Workplace Management Software.

Christine Guardian (Liberal Arts), Jenna Heath (Liberal Arts), Lauren Gatto (First-Year Experience) and Karen Violanti (First-Year Experience) presented "Rolling the Dice: Creating Cross Campus Relationships within a Decentralized/Centralized Model" at the ACUI Student Organization Institute held on June 13 at UNLV. The facilitated discussion…

Alyssa Crittenden (Graduate College) and Nikolina Pender (Decision Support) received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) to assist with expansion of the national CGS survey that collects information on graduate enrollment, retention, progression, and completion. The $75,000 grant was awarded…

Qingmin Shi (Decision Support), along with Robin Cresiski (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Sandip Thanki (Nevada State College), and Lori Navarrete (Nevada State College), have published an article titled, “Unlocking Undergraduate Student Success: A Study of High-Impact Practices in a Comprehensive and Diverse College,” in the Journal…

UNLV climate expert and research professor Kristen Averyt (Office of the Vice President for Research) has been named the director for drought and Western resilience for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Averyt has a long record working on different facets of the climate issue, including U.S. western water resources, the…

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was invited to present at the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society in Boston, Massachusetts. He discussed findings from a study on community college student outcomes in statistics and math after developmental education reform efforts. The…

Nicole Hudson, Ted Weisman, and Suzanne Becker (all Online Education) presented at Educause's Leadership Institute - Annual Meeting/Virtual Conference 2022 under the session theme: Next-Level Professional Development.  At UNLV, taking faculty development to the next level required a research-based approach coupled with an examination of…

Cecilia Maldonado (Provost's Office) and Eileen McGarry (Career Services) presented at the 2022 National Association of Colleges and Employers conference in Portland Oregon. Their topic was  "The Career Readiness Imperative: Creating a Case and Setting the Stage for Career Mobility at a Minority Serving Institution".

Levent Atici (Anthropology and Undergraduate Research) is elected to be a national councilor in the Undergraduate Research Programs Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) which aims to support and promote high-quality, mentored undergraduate research through the active involvement of its members. CUR division councilors share in…

Tiffany Schmier (Academic Success Center Advising Center) and Nicole Stella (Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education) recently presented at the 2022 Region 9 NACADA Conference in Orange, California. Their presentation was titled "Identity Theory 101: Using Identity Theory to Support Students." They provided an overview of pertinent…

Kristin Steffen (Faculty Affairs) was recently accepted as one of approximately 60 LEAD Fellows from across the nation into the 2022-2023 national Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Certificate Program through the Association of American Medical Colleges. The LEAD Certificate Program, an application-based certificate program,…