Dr. Neamat Hassan and Dr. Hassan Ziada (both Dental) were awarded the International College of Dentists' Fellowship (USA section, 2020). The International College of Dentists is the Preeminent Global Dental Honor Society that recognizes outstanding professional achievements and meritorious services while advocating for humanitarian and educational…

Katelin Gilbertson (Economics, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute) was awarded the Best Lightning Talk Presentation Award in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences for her excellence in research during the fall 2020 Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium, sponsored by the office of undergraduate research (OUR). Her research on The…

Iris Martinez and Lisa Carnes (both Nursing) each received a $2,500 scholarship from the UNLV Alumni Association. The scholarships were made possible as a result professor Alona Angosta, director of the master of science - nursing program, receiving the UNLV Outstanding Faculty Award this year. Both students applied for and were recognized for…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article, "Investigating the Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Among Health Care Workers" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health with coauthors from University of Utah and Coforge. It is a comprehensive meta-analysis…

Kim Nehls (Marketing and International Business) recently published a study in the journal Philanthropy & Education titled "Campus and Community Relationships: The Impact of Student Affairs Advisory Boards." The study used resource dependence theory to examine how advisory boards made contributions in six areas: (1) To provide advice to…

Mary Blankenship (Economics, Chemistry, Brookings Mountain West, The Liny Institute, Honors), was awarded the 2020 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award during the fall 2020 Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium, sponsored by the office of undergraduate research (OUR). This award recognizes one outstanding UNLV undergraduate student…

Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) and Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) collaborated with Eva Kahana of the sociology department at Case Western Reserve University and Boaz Kahana to publish a research article, "Loving Others: The Impact of Compassionate Love on Later Life Psychological Well-being," in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. The article concerns the…

Andrew Thomas Reyes, Reimund Serafica, and Angela Sojobi (all Nursing) co-authored, “College Student Veterans’ Experience with a Mindfulness- and Acceptance-Based Mobile App Intervention for PTSD: A Qualitative Study,” which is published in the December issue of the Archives of Psychiatric Nursing.

Arya Udry (Geoscience) has been selected for the Mars 2020 Participating Scientist Program. Udry's proposal "Using Jezero Crater Igneous Compositions to Constrain Martian Interior and Surface Processes from the Noachian to Amazonian" was selected for funding. She was one of 13 proposals out of 119 chosen for the award. UNLV now has…

Celeste Calkins, John "Skip" Crooker, and Qingmin Shi (all Decision Support) won the RMAIR 2020 Best Presentation for their recent presentation, “Instructors’ Grading Practices and Student Evaluations of Teaching”, at the annual virtual conference of the Rocky Mountain Association for Institutional Research (RMAIR). This presentation examines…

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) took part in an online international colloquium, ‘’Israel est mondialement FLE,’’ in Israel last month. She presented a webinar,'' L’enseignement-apprentissage du FLE à distance: classé inversée." The conference was organized with the Association of French teachers (APFI/FIPF, the general inspection…

David Damore (Political Science), Robert Lang (The Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West), and Fatma Nasoz (Computer Science) provide an analysis of voting on Question 1 and its consequences for higher education reform in their recent commentary piece "The Geography of Higher Education Reform" appearing in the Nevada Current.