Accomplishments: Women's Council

Su Kim Chung, Marina Georgieva, Sarah Jones, Emily Lapworth, and Cyndi Shein (all Libraries) presented at the joint conference of the Society of Southwest Archivists and the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists. Chung, head of special collections and archives public services, presented with colleagues from…
Cass Shum, Ankita Ghosh, and Anthony Gatling (all Hospitality) recently published their manuscript "Prosocial Rule-breaking to Help Coworker: Nature, Causes, and Effect on Service Performance" in the International Journal of Hospitality Management. In the manuscript they showed that prosocial rule-breaking behavior with a motive to help coworkers…
Rebecca Gill (Political Science and the Women's Research Institute of Nevada) and Kate Eugenis ,'17 PhD Political Science, have published their article "Do Voters Prefer Women Judges? Deconstructing the Competitive Advantage in State Supreme Court Elections" in State Politics & Policy Quarterly. In this article, the authors find that…
Erika G. Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) conducted an interview of Vida actors Mishel Prada and Ser Anzoztegui during a panel titled "Vida: Family, Love, & Identity," which now has been published on ClexaCon's YouTube channel. The interview took place during ClexaCon 2019.
Elizabeth Stacy and Donald Price (both Life Sciences), along with two former graduate students from the Stacy lab, have a paper in press, "Varieties of the Highly Dispersible and Hypervariable Tree, Metrosideros polymorpha, Differ in Response to Mechanical Stress and Light Across a Sharp Ecotone" in the American Journal of Botany. This study…
Joseph McKay (Law and Hospitality) and Gail Sammons (Hospitality), along with Kimberly Addair, '18 MA Urban Leadership, received the Best Proposal Award Teaching Track from the West Federation Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education Regional Conference for their work developing a human trafficking awareness training module for…
Drs. Katherine Howard and Karl Kingsley (both Dental), along with Dr. Nimrat Dhillon, '19 Graduate Certificate in Pediatric Dentistry, recently published their manuscript "Prevalence of Selenomonas noxia among Pediatric and Adult O" in the International Journal of Research and Reports in Dentistry.
June Cho, Linda Anne Silvestri, and Rhigel "Jay" Tan (all Nursing) have been accepted as fellows in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). They will be inducted in October. These new fellows have been acknowledged for their work enhancing the quality of health and nursing, promoting healthy aging and human development across the life continuum,…
Danica G. Hays (Education) has been selected as associate editor of qualitative research for the Journal of Counseling and Development (JCD). JCD is the flagship journal of the American Counseling Association, a national organization of more than 60,000 professional counselors in 18 specialty areas and work settings.
Harriet E. Barlow (The Intersection) received the 2019 Strong Sistah Award in the Cultural Experiences Award presented by Sistahs S.T.R.O.N.G. The presentation was made at the 14th annual Sistah Day Celebration. Sistahs S.T.R.O.N.G. strives to reach the next generation by providing mentoring programs and services to young women and girls ages 10-…
Peter Michel, Jimmy Chang, Karla Irwin, and Tammi Kim (all Libraries) recently presented at the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists and Society of Southwest Archivists 2019 Joint Annual Meeting in Tucson, Arizona. The participants all presented on an educational session titled Learning From Las Vegas: Documenting the…
Jay Shen, Pearl Kim, Sung-Youn Chun, Jinwook Hwang, Hyeyoung Yeom (all Health Care Administration and Policy), Jae-Hoon Lee (Family Medicine), Haneul Choi (Honors), and Ji Won Yoo (Internal Medicine) published an article on "Trends in the Utilization of Life-Sustaining Procedures and Palliative Care Consultation…