Joseph Gaccione (Nursing) was honored at the Public Relations Society of America (Las Vegas Valley Chapter) 2021 Pinnacle Awards.  Gaccione won two Pinnacle Awards for his nursing stories, "From Canada to Vegas" and "Scrubs and Spikes."  Joseph previously won in 2020 for Best Blog for UNLV School of Nursing's Rebel Nursing Notes.

Bucket Manyweather and Federick Ngo (both Educational Psychology and Higher Education) presented their study "The Implementation of Mandatory Ethnic Studies (AB1460) in the California State University System" at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. The study is part of a broader project on mandatory ethnic…

Afsha Bawany (Urban Affairs), Su Kim Chung, Sean Kennedy,Brittani Sterling, and Claytee White (all Libraries), and Jennifer Ream (Journalism and Media Studies), were honored by the Public Relations Society of America's Las Vegas Chapter with a 2021 Pinnacle Award in public service for the “We Need to Talk” educational series.…

Cory Lampert (Libraries) presented "Neon in Nevada: A Blueprint for Collaboration in Nevada" at the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Digital Preservation 2021 conference. The project to document and digitally preserve neon signs in Nevada is a collaboration between UNLV and the University of Nevada, Reno libraries. 

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) was recently awarded the Graduate Student Prize and the Trennert-Iverson scholarship by the Western History Association at the annual conference this year in Portland, Oregon. 

Jacob D. Skousen, Dana L. Bickmore, and Miguel Gonzales (all Educational Psychology and Higher Education), and Maria Banda Roberts (Education) presented their research, "Changing the Face of School Leadership: Diversifying the Principal Pool Through Purposeful Recruiting and Mentoring" at the annual University Council…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) is a co-investigator on the project "Impact of Pre- and Postnatal Chemical Mixture Exposures on Child Neurobehavior and Neuroimaging," which is receiving a five-year grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for $3,187,411. The project will investigate mixtures of more than…

Gabriela Buccini (Public Health) published a new article, "Population-based approaches for monitoring the nurturing care environment for early childhood development: A scoping review" in the Maternal and Child Nutrition journal.  Given the great variability in methods used to measure the nurturing care (NC) environment, valid approaches based…

E. Michael Nussbaum (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was elected a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), effective Jan. 1, 2022. He is a former president of APA Division 15 (Educational Psychology). His research focuses on the use of argumentation in education, classroom discourse, and critical thinking…