Carlos S. Dimas (History) was elected as president-elect of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) at the 2023 conference in Antigua, Guatemala. He will serve as president-elect 2023-2024 and then as president 2024-2025. SECOLAS is an association of individuals interested in Latin America established in 1953. Its objectives…

Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health) received funding from the National Institute of Health to promote NIH's All of Us Research Program. The All of Us Research Program is a historic effort to collect and study data from one million or more people living in the United States. The goal of the program is better health for all of…

Vanessa Marie Booth (Political Science, The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West) has been selected to receive the Thomas J. Watson Leadership Scholarship, which funds graduate study at Brown University. Admitted to the accelerated MPA program, Booth will be one of few students who receives the Watson Scholarship to not only fund her graduate…

Professor Stephen Caplan (Music) was a featured speaker for the Music Teachers National Association national conference held in Reno, Nevada. His talk, "90% Mental, the Other Half in Physical! — The Body/Mind Conundrum in Music Performance," was part of MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday: Musician Wellness. Caplan also invited to discuss…

Jessica Grifaldo (Life Sciences), a first-generation Latina graduate student, was awarded a National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP). Grifaldo and her mentor Eduardo Robleto will study how bacterial cells control the expression of genes conferring the ability to swim, an adaptive behavior to escape environmental…

Recently, Research.com has ranked professor Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) #180 in the Best Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Scientists in the United States for 2023. The ranking is based on Discipline H-index metric.

Adjunct faculty and alumna Lisa Ortega (Architecture) wrote Bill AB131, which calls for the state to have an Urban and Community Forestry program.  It has passed Assembly, and is on its way to the Senate for consideration.  Read more about the Bill on the State legislature website or at the Reno Gazette Journal.…

Samantha Godbey (Libraries) is the recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Library Faculty Service Award. Godbey is active in service and leadership opportunities both nationally and at UNLV. She served as the Libraries’ senior senator on the UNLV Faculty Senate, vice-chair and chair of the Association of College & Research Libraries’ Education and…

Katherine Walker (English) published an article titled, "Horatio in Pieces, Or, How to Deal with Ghosts," in the journal Shakespeare. The article looks at Horatio's strategies for navigation the occult and supernatural in Shakespeare's Hamlet.