View Accomplishments - May 2012
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Athletics
Sara Jordan, Courtni Low, Alexandra White, Emily Black
UNLV Cheer Team
Nakia Jackson-Hale, Jessica Tidwell
UNLV Cheer Coaches
Four members of the UNLV Cheer Team—Black, Jordan, Low, and White—won the Group Stunt National Championship at the 32nd annual NCA and NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship in Daytona Beach, Fla., in April. The team won the event with a score of 9.400, finishing ahead of two teams from Oklahoma State University and a team from Hawaii Pacific University. The championship is the largest of its kind in the world, drawing more than 5,000 student-athletes and thousands of spectators. The competition highlights technical skills, showmanship, game day abilities, and teamwork.
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Health Sciences
Karl Kingsley
Dental School
Christine Bergman
College of Hotel Administration
Are senior authors of a new publication, “Folic Acid Supplementation Increases Survival and Modulates High Risk HPV-induced Phenotypes in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells and Correlates with p53 mRNA transcriptional Down-regulation,” which appeared in the journal Cancer Cell International.
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Educational Outreach
Pamela Gallion
Cannon Survey Center
Presented a workshop, “Do You Know Your Baby Boomers? A Foundation and Model for Public/Private Policy Development” at the Aging in America Conference in Washington, D.C., in March. A highlight of the trip was a meeting with U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada during which he was presented with a copy of A Portrait of Nevada’s Seniors: A Collaborative Study, a demographic profile of aging in the Silver State.
Fine Arts
Patricia McRae Baley
Art
Received the Nancy DeLaurier Award from the Visual Resources Association during an awards luncheon at the association’s annual conference, which this year took place in Albuquerque in April. The award, named for one of the pioneers of the profession, honors a visual resources professional for distinguished achievement. “Achievement” is measured by immediate impact and may take the form of published work, oral presentation, project management, software development, technology application, website creation, or other outstanding effort.
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Sean Clark
Film
Was invited to Western Michigan University as part of the WMU English department’s Gwen Frostic Reading Series. The series presents acclaimed creative writers from across the nation and beyond. Every year a diverse range of readings that encompass poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama attract audiences to the Kalamazoo campus.
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Victoria Baltimore-Dale
Dance
Choreographed a work for the UNLV Dance Ensemble that made its debut in Canada at the 26th conference of the International Association of Blacks in Dance. Six bachelor of fine arts students performed “Sojourner” and two bachelor of arts students designed the lighting for the performance at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto.
Liberal Arts
Kimberly Barchard
Psychology
Mentored a team of 17 undergraduates who presented 10 professional posters at the Western Psychological Association annual convention in San Francisco. Twelve of the students attended the conference in person, presented their research, and met with faculty and students in related areas.
Jane Karwoski
Psychology
Was recognized by the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education Update for her research article, “Revisiting the Educationally Influential Physician: Development of a Simplified Nomination Form.” The article appeared in the winter 2012 issue of The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions.
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Mark Lutz
Political Science
Wrote the book Divine Law and Political Philosophy in Plato’s Laws, which was published by the University of Northern Illinois Press in April. As described on the book’s website, “All over the world secular rationalist governments and judicial authorities have been challenged by increasingly forceful claims made on behalf of divine law. For those who believe that reason—not faith—should be the basis of politics and the law, proponents of divine law raise theoretical and practical concerns that must be addressed seriously and respectfully. As Mark J. Lutz makes plain in this illuminating book, they have an important ally in Plato, whose long neglected Laws provides an eye-opening analysis of the relation between political philosophy and religion and a powerful defense of political rationalism.”
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Anthony Guy Patricia
English
Was one of five doctoral candidates selected to receive a 2012 College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Graduate Student Summer Stipend Award.
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Rainier Spencer
Interdisciplinary Degree Programs
Has been named to the Editorial Review Board of the forthcoming Journal of Critical Mixed-Race Studies.
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Sciences
Satish Bhatnagar
Mathematical Science
Is the author of Vectors in History: Main Foci – India and USA, published by Trafford Publishing.
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Urban Affairs
Markie Blumer
Marriage and Family Therapy
Received a summer 2012 Research Support Grant from the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs for her upcoming invited presentation, “Challenging Dominant Discourses on ‘Gender Identities’: Reducing Cisgenderism in Family Therapy.” The presentation and related research collaboration will take place at the University of Surrey in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom, with various scholars and clinicians affiliated with that university, including Y. Gavriel Ansara of the psychology department.
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Tara Emmers-Sommer
Communication Studies
Wrote a chapter, “Sexually Violent Media and Its Implications,” which appears in the book The Psychology of Love (Praeger, 2012). She also is coauthor, along with former communication studiess graduate student Sandra Donovan, of an article, “Attachment and Gender as Predictors of Communicative Reponses to Infidelity,” which appears this year in the academic journal Marriage and Family Review. And, along with former communication studies graduate student Sarah Nebel, she wrote the article “I’m Not Trying to Be Cured, So There’s Not Much He Can Do for Me: Hospice Patients’ Constructions of Holistic Care in a Biomedical Culture” this year for the scholarly journal Death Studies.
Julian Kilker
Journalism and Media Studies
Had an exhibition of his photography at the Cite du Temps in Geneva, Switzerland, in April and May. “Time in the Mojave” focused on the Mojave National Preserve.
