Tricia Gatlin (Nursing) participated in an interview on KGHD 87.7 FM radio (La Raza) with representatives from Women’s Health Associates of Southern Nevada Central (WHASN Central) discussing healthy eating during pregnancy and debunking the myth that pregnant women should eat for two. She is working with the health care providers and  staff…

Maria Jerenic-Pravica, Lisa Menegatos, Joanna Kepka, and Daniel Bubb (all Honors College) presented on ways to address and discuss difficult topics related to diversity in the classroom at the National Collegiate Honors Council national conference in Seattle. Given today's environment where addressing issues related to diversity can be challenging…

Dmitri Shalin (Sociology) has been critically involved in the public sociology efforts through which American, British, and Canadian sociological associations have issued a statement in support of the Levada Center, a premier sociological research organization in Putin’s Russia that has been battling ideological headwinds.

Dana Bickmore (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) and colleagues Patti Kinney (Kinney Consulting) and Nancy Flowers (University of Illinois) were invited by the American Middle Level Education Association (AMLE) to speak at its annual conference in Austin, Texas.  The title of the presentation was The Effective Middle Grade…

Cassandra Boyer, Jorge Adrian Castrejon, Jessica Nave-Blodgett, Andrew Ortiz, and Karl Wennerlind have been chosen to receive the fall 2016 Southwest Travel Awards. They were selected from among 150 student applicants. Recipients of the awards receive a round-trip travel voucher from Southwest Airlines to allow them to travel to a conference or…

Center for Academic Enrichment and Outreach (The Center ) has been awarded a fifth TRIO Talent Search (TS) grant from the U.S. Department of Education. This grant, which will total $1.25 million over five years, will serve 500 low-income and/or first-generation middle and high school students annually.    TS's Purpose: The Talent…

Reimund Serafica (Nursing) presented his research, “Mediators and Moderators to Anthropometric Measurements among Filipino Americans with Hypertension” during the 42nd annual conference of the Transcultural Nursing Society. The society focuses on national and international trends that advance the discipline of transcultural nursing.

UNLV Jazz Ensemble recently received an outstanding review from the internationally respected publication JazzTimes for its latest CD, Extra Credit/Latin Journey II. This is the ensemble's seventh consecutive review. More than 400 CDs were submitted from distinguished programs worldwide, and only four were selected for review.

Paulo Pinheiro, Karen Callahan, Nevena Cvijetic, and Rachel E. Kelly (all Environmental and Occupational Health) collaborated with the Nevada Central Cancer Registry and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University Miami Miller School of Medicine to produce a telling publication about breast cancer rate disparities…