Silvia Southwick (Libraries) won the 2015 University Libraries Outstanding Library Faculty Scholarship Award for her scholarly work in the linked data field. While she has a history of scholarship with linked data, she outdid even her previous accomplishments by producing 10 scholarly works in 2014, including peer-reviewed journal…

Vicky Albert (Social Work) conducted a seminar at the London School of Economics in June. She presented some key findings from her project with the Brookings Institution on the Great Recession and some findings from her own recent research.

Barbara Lavina (Physics & Astronomy) is the author of an article, "Unraveling the Complexity of Iron Oxides at High Pressure and Temperature: Synthesis of Fe5O6," which appeared in the June 26 issue of Science Advances. Using laser heating in the diamond anvil cell and synchrotron microfocused X-ray beam, Lavina and Yue Meng from…

Katherine Rankin (Libraries) won the American Library Association’s (ALA) Map and Geospatial Information Round Table (MAGIRT) Honors Award this summer at the ALA conference in San Francisco. She was recognized primarily for event planning and a presentation she did at the ALA annual conference in Las Vegas last summer as well as for acting as…

Balakrishnan Naduvalath (Chemistry and Biochemistry) recently published an article titled, "The Geometric Phase Controls Ultracold Chemistry," in the July 30 issue of Nature Communications. The research demonstrates a new interference mechanism in ultracold chemical reactions, one which has important technological…

Claytee D. White (Libraries) was recognized as the Best Keeper of Our History in Vegas Seven’s 2015 "Best of the City" issue. As the inaugural director of the UNLV University Libraries’ Oral History Research Center, White has spent more than a decade collecting the stories of Las Vegas residents and preserving the history of Southern Nevada.…

Scott Roberts, associate vice president for development, was elected to serve a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District VII. CASE supports alumni relations, communications, development, and marketing professionals at educational institutions worldwide. The association…

Satish Bhatnagar (Math) is the author of Converging Matherticles; Mathematical Reflections, Volume II, which was published in May. The first volume was published in 2010. The latest volume is his eighth book.

Melissa Bowles-Terry (Libraries) and Cassandra Kvenild of the University of Wyoming co-authored the book Classroom Assessment Techniques for Librarians, which was recently published by the Association of College and Research Libraries. Classroom Assessment Techniques for Librarians provides proven methods for gauging students' ability to think…