Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) published "A Cultural Lineage of Streaming" in the journal Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society, which is published by Taylor & Francis. 
University Libraries recently received a $5,000 donation from Culinary Workers Union Local 226 for its Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada project. Latinx Voices is an oral history project focused on collecting the history of the region's Latinx populations. Members of the Culinary Union also have donated their oral histories to the project. 
Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) was an invited speaker at the 2019 Inclusive Sport Summit hosted by the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her talk was titled "Awareness Leading to Action: The Impact of Women on the Evolution of Sport." She also moderated the panel "Beyond the Surface, Beyond Policies: The Underlying…
Nicole D. Jenkins (Sociology) published "Contested Identities: African Diaspora and Identity Making in a Hair Braiding Salon." in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. She is a doctoral student.
Kevin Wright and Zainub Cementwala (both Student Diversity and Social Justice) served as panelists during a webinar that was co-sponsored by the Coalition for Multicultural Affairs and the Coalition for (Dis)Ability under the American College Personnel Association.  The topic was "Finding Community: Narratives of Disability and Race."
Mary Whitehead (Student Diversity and Social Justice) and Eli Williams (Service Learning and Leadership) hosted a leadership lunch on the topic of Black Womxn and Leadership.
Alfonse Anderson (Music) was the first recipient of the Dr. Bert Babero Sr. Faculty/Staff Award, which was given out at the first Inaugural Black Carpet, the main event for Black History Month. This event was hosted by Student Diversity and Social Justice to celebrate Black Excellence, Black Love, and Black Joy. Babero, an…
Arya Udry and Chris DeFelice (both Geoscience), along with Zoe Wilbur, '18 BS Geology; Rachel Rahib, '15 BS Geology and '18 MS Geoscience; and Logan Combs, '18 MS Geoscience, co-authored the manuscript "Reclassification of Four Aubrites as Enstatite Chondrite Impact Melts: Potential Geochemical Analogs for Mercury" in the Meteoritics and…
Drs. Ahmed Mohamed and Edward Lynch, along with pediatric resident Dr. Alice Trieu (all Dental) co-authored an article, "Silver Diamine Fluoride Versus Sodium Fluoride for Arresting Dentine Caries in Children: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," which appears in the current issue of Scientific Reports, Nature. The article systematically…

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