Students Andres Carrasco, Aryah Certain, Allister Dias, Ethan Phui (all Business) competed and won first place in the 13th Annual National Diversity Case Competition (NDCC) hosted by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business January 12-13, 2024. Janet Runge (Business) served as the faculty advisor for the UNLV team. NDCC is a premier…

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology, Emeritus, retired) just published the chapter: "Sensory Degradation and Somatic Labor: Critical Sensory Ethnography for Hypermodern Times" in the Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography. Combining scholarship on the senses, sensory ethnography, and hypermodernism, the chapter discusses three…

Professor Jeff Stempel (Law) recently published the 2024 supplemental to his book, Stempel and Knutsen on Insurance Coverage.

Professor Mary LaFrance (Law) published a chapter on Trademark Dilution in Japan, co-authored with Professor Yoshiyuki Tamura, in the book, Trademark Dilution and Free Riding.

Thomas Bloodgood III (Healthcare Administration and Policy) is a recipient of the undergraduate Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Scholarship Award for 2024. The HIMSS Foundation awards two $5,000 HIMSS Student Member scholarships annually: one to an undergraduate and one to a graduate student. The scholarships are for…

Professor Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) co-authored a paper titled, "Functionally antagonistic polyelectrolyte for electro-ionic soft actuator," in a recent issue of Nature Communications (2024)15:435.

Nicholas Barron (Anthropology) published an article titled, "The Politics of AAA in Action: From Pseudo to Epitomizing Events," in the History of Anthropology Review. This short piece discusses the most recent meeting of the American Anthropological Association while underscoring the importance of documenting the discipline's institutional history…

Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article titled, "Effective vocabulary interventions for young emergent bilinguals: A best‐evidence synthesis," in Review of Education.  This best-evidence synthesis applied systematic study selection procedures and identified rigorously designed…

Dan Bubb (Honors College) was part of a panel that included Mark Hall Patton, retired director of the Clark County Heritage Museum, and consultant on the television show, Pawn Stars, and Rosemary Vasiliadis, director of Aviation in Clark County, celebrating 75 years of commercial aviation and Harry Reid International Airport (formerly…