Jennifer Kawi, Andrew Thomas Reyes, (both Nursing), and Rogelio A. Arenas (Anthropology) co-authored “Exploring Pain Management Among Asian Immigrants with Chronic Pain: Self-Management and Resilience," which is published online and will appear in the December issue of Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Arenas is a Ph.D.…

Arya Udry (Geoscience), was awarded two NASA program grants. One is a three-year, $330,540 NASA Solar System Working Program grant titled, "Petrogenesis of Poikilitic Shergottites and Implications for Martian Geochemical Reservoirs." This grant is to study a comprehensive suite of Martian meteorites called the poikilitic…

Katherine Rankin (Libraries) received the Distinguished Service Award from the Western Association of Map Libraries for exemplary efforts toward the betterment of the association. The association is an independent group of map librarians and other people with an interest in maps and map librarianship. 

Marcia Ditmyer (Dental) received a five-year, $1 million from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources & Services Administration designed to aid the School of Dental Medicine in recruiting and retaining junior full-time clinical faculty.

Jessica Doolen (Nursing) co-authored an article, "An Integrative Review of Interprofessional Simulation in Nursing Education," which was published in Clinical Simulation in Nursing.

Drs. Ovunc Bardakcioglu, Joseph P. Thornton, David G. Weismiller, Robert C. Wang, Renu S. Jain, Beverly A. Neyland, Annabel E. Barber, John Fildes, John Ham, and Daniel M. Kirgan (all Medicine) were recently listed in the "Best Doctors" issue of Desert Companion magazine. The list includes Bardakcioglu and Thornton (both colon and rectal…

Tricia Gatlin and Marcia Clevesy (both Nursing), along with coauthor Kord Strebel, have written an article, "Is There a Relationship Between Gestational Diabetes and Perinatal Depression?" which appears in MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing.

Aude Picard (Life Sciences) was awarded a Research Infrastructure Grant of $45,000 from the Nevada Space Grant Consortium for her research project “Evaluating the Impact of Oxidation on Biosignatures Preserved in Minerals”. She will study the composition and physical properties of minerals precipitated in the presence of microorganisms and…

Barbara St. Pierre Schneider (Nursing) will be inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in November in Washington, D.C. Schneider holds the Inaugural Research Professor of Nursing, funded by generous support from Dr. Tony Marlon. With more than $6 million in research funding and more than 50 publications, she is being recognized for an…

Angela Amar (Nursing) is the recipient of a $209,500 Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development award, Workforce Innovations for a New Nevada (WINN). This contract will provide training opportunities to develop the nursing and pipeline workforce on health information technology and telehealth.

Jennifer Rennels (Psychology) presented a talk on "Implicit & Explicit Biases" for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Training Institute at their program seminar here in Las Vegas this month.

Marta Soligo (Sociology and International Gaming Institute) is the author of an article about World Tourism Day, an event promoted by the United Nations World Tourism Organization. The article, which was written for the Italian website Ytali, covers the role that technology plays in tourism today and how technology can produce more sustainable…