Karyn Holt (Nursing) was selected for the 15th class of fellows to be inducted into the prestigious National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education.   The induction ceremony will take place at the Honors Convocation on Saturday, Sept. 25, during the 2021 NLN Education Summit.

Dana Bickmore, Miguel Gonzales, and Maria Roberts (all in Educational Psychology and Higher Education) coauthored an article “Exploring School Leaders Communities of Practice and School Improvement” in the National Association of Secondary School Principals Bulletin. The study examined a program of collaborative professional development for…

Tammi Kim (Libraries) received a Council Exemplary Service Award from the Society of American Archivists for her work as part of the society's Diversity Committee. 

Melissa Bartshe, Courtney Coughenour (both Environmental & Occupational Health), and Haroon Stephen (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) published an article on "The relationship between tree canopy and social capital on physical activity in college students" in the Journal of American College Health. Rates of…

Christina Miskey (Libraries) was invited to speak on a panel of former Law Library of Congress interns where the panelists discussed their internship experiences, their current positions, career trajectories, and answered questions from current interns.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) was interviewed for the Living Philosophy podcast about her research, teaching, and community outreach in philosophy for children.

Renato M. Liboro, Sherry Bell, Brandon Ranuschio, and Lianne Barnes (Psychology),  along with other members of the CHAMPION Mental Health research lab of UNLV, recently published their article, "Barriers and Facilitators to Promoting Resilience to HIV/AIDS: A Qualitative Study on the Lived Experiences of HIV-Positive, Racial and…

Kenneth J. Varner, Iesha Jackson, Christine Clark, Averill Kelley, Chelsea DeSalvo, and Norma A. Marrun (all Teaching and Learning) published an edited book, Multicultural Curriculum Transformation in Social Studies and Civic Education.

Christina Hall (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave a presentation entitled "Using Spanish Moss as a Bio-indicator for Air Pollution in the Low Country of Savannah River Basin "at the 66th Annual Conference of Health Physics Society in Phoenix. The study indicated the correlations between the concentration of heavy metals in Spanish…

Mayra Corn, Ruby Nugent, and Aidy Weeks (Libraries), along with colleagues Melanie Dixson and Niki Kirkpatrick at the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries, presented "POC in LIS Cohorts" at the 2021 People of Color in Library & Information Sciences Summit.     

Mahdi Hajiali (Computer Science) will have a new study appear in the Proceedings of the 2021 Computing Conference, a highly ranked conference in the areas of computer science and computing. Collaborators included Mahdi Hajiali, Jorge Ramón Fonseca Cacho, and Kazem Taghva (all Computer Science). The study, “Generating Correction…

Emily Lapworth and Su Kim Chung (Libraries) had an article, "The Archives at the Tip of Their Fingers: Exploring User Reactions to Large-Scale Digitization," published in the Journal of Archival Organization.