Molly Marks (Engineering) was recognized by the Nevada Society of Professional Engineers with the Ramona Lesley Dedicated Service Award for her commitment to the engineering community over the past five years in Southern Nevada. As director of special events, Marks is the point person for several events that engage K-12 students in engineering and…

Benjamin Morse (Journalism and Media Studies) presented "Marvel and Morality: An 80-Year Evolution" at the Far West Popular and American Culture Association's annual conference earlier this month in Las Vegas. He explained how morality played a role in the success of Marvel Comics through the decades. Morse is a former editorial director of…

Honghui Deng (Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology) presented "International Trade: The Current Chinese Trade Environment and its Impact on Business" at the Global Information Partners Information Management Forum CIO Spring Roundtable earlier this month in Las Vegas. The forum is a vendor-free, enterprise-wide membership for IT…

Breann Wickson (Marketing and International Business) recently received the 2019 Classified Staff Award, an award voted on by the Lee Business School faculty and staff. It is presented annually to a classified employee who models behavior, including a positive and professional attitude, respectful of institutional policies, helpful to co-…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published an article, "Settler State Borders and the Question of Indigenous Immigrant Identity," in the Journal of Applied Philosophy.

Bing Zhang (Physics and Astronomy) is the author of the book Physics of Gamma-Ray Bursts, which is one of four books selected for the 2020 Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards in the Cosmology and Astronomy category. The PROSE awards honor scholarly works published in 2019. There were a total of 157 finalists across 49 subject…

Kate Korgan (Graduate College) recently represented UNLV at two Salesforce conferences. In November, she presented at Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce conference, the world’s largest software conference. Her session, titled CRM for Graduate Admissions: Your Key to Student and Faculty Success, focused on the Graduate College’s deployment of…

Emily Budd (Art) is one of 47 artists from 24 states being featured in Eros & Thanatos, a national juried exhibition, at the Burkham Gallery in Flint, Michigan. Eros, Greek god of love and sex, and Thanatos, the personification of death, have been used throughout western culture to symbolize the driving forces of life, love, sexuality,…

Tiffany Lin (Art) will represent Nevada as a delegate to the For Freedoms Congress in Los Angeles. For Freedoms will explore strategies to supercharge civic engagement.