On April 14, Ph.D. student and instructor Dennis Baloglu (Hospitality) delivered an educational workshop titled, "An Introduction to Data Science: A Roadmap to a Career in Analytics," at the THEREPS conference, where he served as an industry keynote speaker. Using the "Inspire, educate, instill a call to action" approach, Baloglu…

April Ursula Fox (Educational Psychology) presented her work titled, "Self-Coherence: An Integrative Behavioral Mechanism Aimed at the Pursuit of Well-Being — A Qualitative Phenomenology Study," at the AERA 2023 conference in Chicago. Her presentation received funding from the UNLV GPSA.

This article is the product of a research project conducted by two of the DMD graduates at the School of Dental Medicine (Audrey Morris and Patricia Grabowski) with the supervision of the faculty members at SDM, Dr. Tanya Al Talib and Dr. Neamat Hassan. 

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by Duke University to deliver a public speech titled, "How The Ukraine Crisis Shapes Public Opinion In Taiwan & The World," on April 13, 2023. The talk analyzes how the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict updates the calculation and foreign policy preference in Taiwan, China, and the United…

André Chiang, DMA (Music - Voice) recently participated in a workshop performance of the opera, Fearless, words and music written by Derrick Wang. The performance was produced by Opera Delaware in Wilmington, Delaware, and Chiang sang the role of Clint. The opera follows the life and accomplishments of Hazel Ying Lee, the first Chinese-…

UNLV Dance has been selected to perform with the New York-based Martha Graham Dance Company in a prestigious concert entitled University Partners Showcase April 22 in the famed Joyce Theater. UNLV Dance joins six other highly-regarded dance institutions presenting work from the 20th century canon of modern dance. UNLV Dance will perform a piece by…

Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) has been elected for a two-year term as president of the Western States Folklore Society. Starting in January 2023, she has also taken over as co-editor (with Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, University of Tartu) for the international journal Narrative Culture.

Robert Cochrane (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences PhD candidate), James Navalta (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Anne Weisman (School of Medicine) recently published "The Hero’s Journey as a Novel, Narrative, and Improvisational Group Intervention on Quality of Life for People with Parkinson’s Disease" in Heroism Science. Parkinson’…

Melissa Morris (Mechanical Engineering) received the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Pacific Southwest (PSW) Outstanding Teaching Award. The award recognizes an engineering educator for their outstanding classroom performance and contributions to the scholarship of teaching.  She was honored with this award at the annual…