Andy Kirk (History) received the Preservation Commission Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation from the city of Las Vegas Historic Preservation Commission. The award recognized Kirk in the Career Achievement Category for "decade's worth of service ensuring the preservation of the history of Las Vegas."

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) has just published a chapter in The Heroic in Music (Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press). This volume traces the intersection of the poetics of heroism and musical works from the Middle Ages through the 21st century. Lee contributed the book’s chapter on the 18th century, a period that scholars have often deemed an "age…

Dr. Deborah A. Kuhls (Medicine) accepted the invitation to serve as a representation for the American College of Surgeons to the University of Michigan's Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention External Advisory Committee.

Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) has been awarded a $1,184,175 grant from the National Science Foundation to examine The Genetic Basis of Local Adaptation Across an Island Adaptive Radiation.  The project will combine gene expression, quantitative genetics, and evolutionary genomics analyses to uncover the major gene regions associated with…

Six UNLV Nursing students have been named to the board of the Nevada Nursing Student Association. They are: Michelle Moriarty, vice president Marielle Cuenca, secretary Lidia Gebersiassie, community outreach director Nikole Taylor, president Alessandra Baldono, treasurer Kate Katigbak, communications director

The following spring 2022 BUS 103 students from the class taught by John Starkey (Business) raised funds on behalf of the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY) this past spring and raised more than $3,500. These students held eight events (fundraisers and awareness campaigns) on campus to raise funds over the span of two months. Events…

Su Kim Chung (Libraries) has been appointed by Gov. Steve Sisolak to the Nevada State Historical Records Advisory Board. 

Drs. Maria B. Roberts (Education), Miguel M. Gonzales, and Sylvia Tegano (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) had their study, "School Leadership During COVID-19: Implications for School Leadership Preparation Programs" accepted for publication in the October volume of the Journal of School Administration Research and…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a chapter, “To Skill, Perchance to Win: How Chance and Skill Have Coexisted in Gambling History.”  In Mark R. Johnson, ed. The Casino, Card, and Betting Game Reader: Communities, Culture, and Play. Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.  The chapter traces how both chance and skill elements have…