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…
The office of undergraduate research (OUR) recently held its fall 2020 Undergraduate Research Symposium, which was held virtually. Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute supported several student researchers who were selected to participate, including:
Vanessa Booth who presented…
Samantha Slinkard-Barnum (Medicine) presented her work at the international Trauma Quality Improvement Program 2020 virtual Annual Scientific Meeting. Her poster,
Development of an Injury Prevention Evaluation Toolkit (IP-ET) for Trauma Center Injury Prevention Programs: Building Self Efficacy and…
Five Nursing graduate students recently successfully defended their DNP Projects/PhD dissertations to earn their doctorate titles:
Lynn Senette: "Fluctuating Cohesion: A Grounded Theory Study of Nursing Students Engaged in a Hybrid Debriefing Format."
Rhiannon Sullivan: "…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…