Matthew S. Dentice (English) has had a poem, "The Migrations Period," included in Calling the Beginning, an anthology of poetry that reflects on the cultural legacy of the Middle Ages. Calling the Beginning is published by Wingless Dreamer and was released Dec. 1. 

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published "Cervantes y el Derecho: Préstamos Recíprocos" in Admiración del mundo: Actas selectas del XIV Coloquio Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas. In the article, first offered as a plenary talk in Venice, Italy, in 2019, Byrne studies the relationship between…

Mark Carroll and Lauren Layton (both Education) were featured in a Las Vegas Review-Journal story about recent initiatives to address teacher shortages in Southern Nevada.

Dr. Jo-Lawrence Martinez Bigcas (Medicine) is an expert in the treatment of head and neck cancers. His recent article, "The Origin and Risks of Mouth Lesions," was published in a special oral health issue of Vegas Inc. Health Care Quarterly. The article discusses the risk factors for developing oral cavity lesions that may be benign, pre-cancerous…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) has co-authored a research article "Effects of Cyproheptadine on Body Weight Gain in Children with Nonorganic Failure to Thrive in Taiwan: A Hospital-based Retrospective Study" in the journal PLOS ONE in collaborations with researchers in Taiwan. The study evaluates the effects of…

Dr. Robin Weltman (Dental) co-authored “Altered Human Alveolar Bone Gene Expression in Type 2 Diabetes — A cross-sectional Study,” which appeared Nov. 15 online ahead of print in the Journal of Periodontal Research.

William W. Sullivan (CAEO) and Esther Langston (Social Work and CAEO) will be inducted in Historical Westside Legacy Park on Dec. 4 at 10 a.m. Langston and Sullivan are educational and community pioneers. The park will include plaques with historic information on those people honored there. The park is located at 1600 Mount Mariah Drive in Las…

Woo-Yong Park (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) recently had his paper, "The Design Sourcing Choice and Technological Performance in the Upscale and Downscale Markets of an Architectural Innovation,” accepted in the Journal of Operations Management. Park co-authored the paper with Chanchai Tangpong (North Dakota…

Cory Lampert (Libraries) is the co-author of a chapter, "Maximizing Good: An Inquiry-Based Approach to Minimal Description for Online Archives," in the recently published book,  The Lighting the Way Handbook: Case Studies, Guidelines, and Emergent Futures for Archival Discovery and Delivery.