The Nevada Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics held the annual meeting on the UNLV campus on April 27. Two UNLV students, Kristine Wilson and Christopher Acosta (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) were recognized for state-level awards. Wilson was named the Outstanding Dietetics Student - Dietetic Internship Program, and Acosta was named…

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was named as an Outstanding Reviewer for the American Educational Research Journal (AERJ). AERJ is the flagship journal of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), with articles that advance the empirical, theoretical, and methodological understanding of education…

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published an article titled "Use and Effectiveness of Academic Supports After Developmental Education Reform in California’s Community Colleges" in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. The study examines the role of concurrent support courses (e.g., corequisites) in…

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published an article titled "The Impact of Course Placement in STEM Sequences on Students’ Short-Term and Longer-Term University Success Outcomes" in The Review of Higher Education with collaborators from the University of Iowa. The study explores the effects of placement in…

Eric Kawana, B.S.; Rodd Rahmani, M.D.; Scott Turnbull, D.O.; Adam Khattak, D.O.; Kenny Do, B.S.; and Aditi Singh, M.D. (all Medicine) published an article titled, "A Rare Presentation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a Patient With Fever of Unknown Origin" in the journal Cureus.  This case presents a 23-year-old male with a rare…

Cass Shum (Hospitality) and coauthors recently published their paper "'I was so scared I quit:' Uncanny valley effects of robots’ human-likeness on employee fear and industry turnover intentions" in the International Journal of Hospitality Management. The paper focuses on the effect of robots' appearance on employees' fear and industry…

Carlos Dimas (History) has been selected to join the editorial team of H-Environment Roundtable. The roundtables consist of 3 to 4 scholars reading and commenting on a selected new book in Environmental History, and highlighting its contribution to the field. Each year he will oversee the planning, coordination, and publication of 3 to 4…

Carlos Dimas (History) gave a talk at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán's Instituto de Investigaciones sobre Cultura Popular in Argentina on his book, Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865-1908.

Iván Sandoval Cervantes (Anthropology) and Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Latin American Animal Ethics" in Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala, edited by Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda and Ernesto Rosen Velásquez.