Kate Korgan (Graduate College) was a presenter at the Council of Graduate Schools Virtual New Deans Institute earlier this month. The institute is tailored to deans, associate deans, and assistant deans who began their roles in the past two years. In her "Managing Graduate Operations" presentation, Korgan shared the cornerstones of successful…

Erika Marquez (Environmental & Occupational Health) recently was selected as a 2020 NIMHD Health Disparities Research Institute scholar. This competitive program aims to support the research career development of promising early-career minority health/health disparities research scientists, and stimulate research in the…

Nikkole Liesse (Lee Business) recently was named to the 2020 list of Women Inspiring Nevada by Vegas Inc. This year's 12 honorees include women who are doing inspiring work in business and philanthropy throughout the state.

Dan Bubb (Honors College) managed and edited an issue of Journal of the West (peer-reviewed). He wrote the introduction and contributed an article titled, "The West Grows Wings: Airshows, Airmail, and Airfields, 1909-1926." Students Maeve Dow, Deanna Chea, and Devin Lees (all Honors) each also contributed and published articles.

Brenna Renn (Psychology) offered a review of a new tool that evaluates mental health apps in a recent Stat News article. This new tool was developed by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and aims to help patients sort through the mental health app marketplace to make an informed decision about app quality, usability, and…

Chelsea Heinbach and Sue Wainscott (both Libraries) had a chapter, "University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Liaisons and Teaching Librarians—Navigating Overlapping Responsibilities and Identities," published in the book, Hidden Architectures of Information Literacy Programs: Structures, Practices, and Contexts." 

Laura Brennan, Sapira Cheuk (both Art) and Jean Munson (Art and WRIN) have published personal essays and images of their artwork as a part of Nevada Humanities' online program Heart to Heart. Their work considers the place of the artist amidst quarantine and pandemic.

Marina Garber (Colacicchi) ( World Languages and Cultures) is the author of a book of poetry that has been the subject of two recent reviews. "The Ural's Accent" by Oleg Dozmorov was published in the literary magazine Znamya (Russia). "The Unsightly Exhibits"  by Marina Temkina was published in The New…

Elia Del Carmen Solano-Patricio (Public Policy and Leadership and Honors), along with Yanneli Llamas, '20 BA Criminal Justice and English, are recipients of the highly competitive and prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, awarded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. This scholarship…

Fawn Douglas (Art) is interviewed by UNLV alumnus Justin Favela, '10 BFA Art, on The Art People Podcast. They discuss her history as an Indigenous American artist and enrolled member of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, talk about her role as a student and educator, and discuss her as advocacy work for the Nuwu culture and the many indigenous groups in…

Sharolyn Pollard-Durodola (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and Gloria Miller of the University of Denver recently published an article on Student Interns and Their Field Supervisors’ Perceptions of a School Psychology Training Program to Support Emergent Bilinguals in the International Journal of School and Educational…

Mary Blankenship (Chemistry and Economics) recently co-authored "From the George Floyd Moment to a Black Lives Matter Movement, in Tweets" with Richard Reeves of the Brookings Institution. They analyzed protest-related tweets between May 27 and June 4 to display the development of the Black Lives Matter movement. Blankenship is pursuing…