Alona Angosta and Jennifer Kawi (School of Nursing) completed the Leadership for Academic Nursing Program (LANP), sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). The LANP has been preparing future leaders for more than 14 years. This structured professional development experience includes assessment and evaluation of…

Steven Clarke (Architecture) and the Downtown Design Center he directs have had their work in the historic Westside neighborhood of Las Vegas featured in an in-depth article in the August issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM). LAM is the monthly magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the magazine of record for the…

Daniel Mast and Bradley Childs (Chemistry) won awards in the 2016 Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Awards sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), office of fuel cycle technologies. Mast was awarded a first-place prize in the open competition in the category of nuclear science and engineering. His award-winning research paper, “…

Martin Schiller (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) and the Schiller Laboratory of Applied Bioinformatics, Christy Strong (Life Sciences), Ronald Benjamin, Omoyemwen Igbinedion (both Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine), and peers at other institutions recently published a review article titled “TALEN Gene Editing Takes Aim on HIV”…

Dieu-My Tran (Nursing) published “Validation of the Knowledge and Perception of Cardiovascular Risk Factors Questionnaires for College Students” in the Journal of Nursing Measurement. The study, which tested the psychometric properties of two measures of knowledge and perception of cardiovascular risk factors, appeared in the journal’s August…

Jingchun Chen and Xiangning Chen (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine), along with peers at other institutions, recently published their research findings in the article “Genetic Relationship Between Schizophrenia and Nicotine Dependence” in Nature Publishing Group’s Scientific Reports. Supported in part by separate…

Doris Watson, Kim Nehls (both Educational Psychology & Higher Education) and Shaoan Zhang (Teaching and Learning) have recently been published in Storey & Hesbol (Eds.) (2016) Contemporary Approaches to Dissertation Development and Research Methods (New York: IGI-Global Publishers).  Watson and Nehls contributed chapter 4,  "…

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) co-authored an essay that appears in Everyday Feminism magazine on the controversy surrounding intersex Olympic athletes. The essay engages misconceptions about intersex traits and discrimination against athletes competing in this summer's games. 

Martin Schiller (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) and the Schiller Laboratory of Applied Bioinformatics, along with peers at other institutions, recently published research findings about “The Functional Human C-Terminome” in PLoS ONE. Schiller’s publication announces a new “-ome” (or part) of a protein region called the C-terminal…