Gary Totten (English) presented the keynote address, "Edith Wharton's Geographical Imagination: Notes from the Travel Writing," at an online event celebrating U.S. writer Edith Wharton's 162nd birthday, hosted by the Transatlantic Literary Women project at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the Edith Wharton Society. In his talk, Totten…

Associate professor Brach Poston (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and senior academic advisor John Starkey (Business) are the recipients of this year's UNLV Academic Advisor Awards. The UNLV Academic Advisor awards recognize individuals with an exceptional record of advising and supporting students. Their award applications have been forwarded…

Jessica Gonzalez, Marisol Pulido, Preston Wong, Gian Cubacub (all Accounting) recently placed third in the national finals of the 2023 Deloitte FanTAXstic case competition. The team was supported by Debra Biordi (UNLV Faculty Advisory), Jae Wong (Deloitte Campus Recruiter), and Marissa Gaumer (Deloitte Advisor). More than 60 teams from top…

This is a monograph completed by the Global Occupational Therapy Think Tank, "a group of occupational therapy scholars and practitioners dedicated to educating and advancing the profession of occupational therapy throughout the world." Chih-Huang Yu (Brain Health) participated in the committee that conducted a systematic review on case studies…

Professor Nachman Gutowski (Law) was the keynote speaker for "Risk Taking and Reform in Legal Education" at the University of New Hampshire Law Review Symposium. He also presented on a panel titled, "Looking 50 Years into the Future, What Will Legal Education Look Like?"

Aaron Saiewitz (Accounting) received the AJPT Award for Outstanding Reviewer Performance from Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. This award recognizes members of the American Accounting Association (AAA) Auditing Section for both the volume and quality of their paper reviews for AJPT, an A-level journal on the LEE journal rankings list…

Candace Burton (Nursing) is senior mentor to the lead author and co-author of a newly published study on the experiences of mothers whose children were in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the journal Advances in Neonatal Care. The publication was led by Sarah Rodrigues, now a post-doctoral associate of the University of California Irvine,…

Jungnam Kim (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published the manuscript, “Leading and supporting school counselors through evaluation systems: A national study,” in the Psychology in the Schools. She worked alongside colleagues in the educational leadership program at Ball State University to analyze the content and tools…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues from the International Sex Survey recently published a paper, "Cross-cultural validation and measurement invariance of anxiety and depression symptoms: A study of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) in 42 countries," in the Journal of Affective Disorders.