Anjala Krishen (Marketing), Han-fen Hu (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology), Andrew Spivak (Sociology), and  Olesya Venger (Journalism) recently had their paper, "The Danger of Flavor: E-cigarettes, Social Media, and the Interplay of Generations," accepted by the Journal of Business Research. This interdisciplinary study…

Ashley Hairston Doughty (Art) visited Scripps College virtually to present on the topic of artists’ books and representing Blackness.

Stefani Relles (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) and Charles Burmeister (Film) are involved in a documentary film project, "Mattering in the Margins: Skateboarders’ Stories of Mental Health Challenges and Opportunities." The project will involve producing a documentary using cinematic methods that were developed at UNLV with funding…

Sue Wainscott (Libraries) was awarded the 2020 Ann Koopman Science-Technology Community Achievement Award by the Science-Technology Community of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). This award is reserved for those recipients whose professional work is marked by distinction and dedication to the SLA Sci-Tech Community and to STEM…

Benita Wolff (Medicine) recently completed a one-year term as a visiting equity and inclusion administrative fellow for the Harvard University faculty of arts and sciences, Division of Science and the department of physics.  Wolff was a member of the 2019-20 class of Harvard University's administrative fellowship program. She is the director…

Alyssa Crittenden and Spencer Holmes (both Anthropology,) in collaboration with UNITE Passion Project,  contributed a film sharing their work with the Olanakwe Community Fund, a community-based aid organization promoting educational and economic sovereignty of the Hadzabe community of Tanzania. The short film, which discusses…

Miguel M. Gonzales, Dana Bickmore, and Maria Roberts (all Educational Psychology and Higher Education) had a study published in the Journal of Research on Leadership Education. All three work in the educational policy and leadership program. This study examines what aspiring principal candidates in one university base preparation program learned…

Michael McCreery, Danielle Head, Joseph Fiorentini, Sam Leif, Le Quanda Cole, and Catherine Bacos (all Teaching and Learning) earned the Best Paper Award at the 17th International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age for their paper "Time to Acclimate: Examining the Influence of Cognitive Ability on Situating…

Kristin Hough and Daisy Sanchez (Art) are included in the Rogers Art Loft Year One Retrospective exhibition. Sanchez is an undergraduate student. 

Bryson Carrier, Brenna Barrios, and James Navalta (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with Brayden Jolley of the Tulane University School of Medicine, recently published a manuscript, "Validity and Reliability of Physiological Data in Applied Settings Measured by Wearable Technology: A Rapid Systematic Review," in the journal…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) was the invited guest on an episode of Nevada Independent en Español's "Cafecito con Luz y Michelle" program, for which she was interviewed about pre-college philosophy and a free, online, Spanish-language pre-college philosophy course she recently launched with financial support from a Whiting…

The office of undergraduate research (OUR) recently held its Fall 2020 Undergraduate Research Symposium and the College of Sciences brought home several honors, including: The School of Life Sciences earned the Champions of Undergraduate Research Award for its commitment to excellence in research education. The…