Samantha Godbey (Libraries) is this year's recipient of the McPhee Librarian of the Year Award. She was nominated for her contributions as a liaison to the College of Education and her significant contributions to scholarship. The education librarian and assistant professor has collaborated with a College of Education faculty member to co-found…

Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) is the author of an article, "House of Netflix: Streaming Media and Digital Lore," which recently was published in the journal Popular Communication. The article looks at Netflix and the emergence of a nascent streaming industry, including the push into original programming…

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) presented a solo paper, "Liminality Through a Mathematical Prism"  in a panel on Death Liminality and Cultural Expression, at the 30th annual conference of the Far West Popular Culture Association held in Las Vegas Feb. 23-25.

The newest addition to the Routledge Studies in Leadership Research book series, Innovation in Environmental Leadership: Critical Perspectives, is co-edited by Rian Satterwhite, Director for Service Learning and Leadership at UNLV. "Innovation in Environmental Leadership offers innovative approaches to leadership from a post-industrial and…

Marcela Rodriguez-Campo will have her debut poetry piece Mujer de Oro pulished in Huizache, the nation's leading Latino literary magazine. Huizache’s issue No. 8 will be available in fall of 2018. The magazine has previously featured the work of Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, and Sherman Alexie. 

Aya Louisa McDonald and Susanna Newbury (Art) presented on their recent work at the 106th annual College Art Association Conference in Los Angeles Febr. 21-24. McDonald organized and chaired a two-part panel on the Changing Interactions between Japanese artists and the West Coast; her conference paper examined the relationship between…

Angelyn Talbalba, Lisamarie Tomassetti, Bailey Udin and Natasha White of the Rho Epsilon Beta Chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary wrote the winning bid for the "Building Block" award from the Intermountain Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls at the association’s annual business conference held at…

The National Science Foundation will fund Kurt Regner and Eduardo Robleto's (Life Sciences) proposal, REU SITE: Mechanisms of Evolution (DBI 1757316 - $333,830).  REU Sites offer paid summer undergraduate research internships supplemented with workshops on careers in science.  The overarching goal of this proposal is…

Christian Jensen (Political Science) and Rebecca Gill (Political Science, WRIN) recently published "Where are the women? Legal traditions and descriptive representation on the European Court of Justice" in Politics, Groups, and Identities. This article  demonstrates the importance of informal job requirements and institutional…