Professor Stewart Chang (Law) gave a Humanities at Play presentation for Nevada Humanities on exploring colonialist tropes and themes in board games and its connections to education and race studies.

Angela Silvestri-Elmore and Nirmala Lekhak (all Nursing) were co-authors in Nevada Nursing News, the official newsletter publication of the Nevada State Board of Nursing, for the article "Building and Evaluating Clinical Judgment and Decision-Making in a Prelicensure Pathophysiology and Pharmacology Course" on preparing new nurses for practice.…

Professor Ruben J. Garcia (Law) was appointed to the Board Credentialing Committee (BCC) of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. The BCC is responsible for overseeing the process of presenting new inductees to the College for Board approval from each of 12 Circuits (1st through DC). Inductees are invited to join the College as Elected…

Candace Burton (Nursing) was a co-guest editor for a special issue of Clinical Nursing Research on the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). This issue provides insight into the many ways that the SDOH can inform nursing practice, education, and research including perinatal outcomes, poverty and disability, and trauma.  

Rei Serafica and Andrew Reyes (all Nursing) presented at Sigma Theta Tau International's 35th International Nursing Research Congress in Singapore, held from July 25-28, 2024. Their symposium, "Addressing Global Health Inequities and Challenges in Rural Filipino Communities," highlighted critical issues in rural Philippines. The conference,…

Jennifer McCarthy, Heidi Albrecht, and Bridget Saul (all Space Management) presented at the Campus FM Technology Association Conference in Pasadena, CA. Their presentation "Location! Location! Location! Where's Waldo?" discussed the process and implementation of assigning occupants to space in the Archibus Integrated Workplace Management Software.

John Haberstroh (History) facilitated a workshop discussion called "Chatting about ChatGPT II" at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) at the University of Hawaii, Manoa on August 2. This discussion continued a conversation began at last year's annual meeting on the instructional,…

Dr. Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) hosted and presented in a workshop titled, "R Programming for WQS, LWQS, and BYM Models," at the School of Public Health. This workshop was part of the Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) Geospatial Project. Chien provided instruction to SNHD staff on writing R code to conduct variable…

Dale Melgaard (Film) has received an "Official Selection" to the Roshani International Film Festival for an original short script, The Phatman.