Susanna Newbury (Art) published "In Residence," a chapter in Amsterdam University Press' new Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City (ed. Christoph Linder and Gerard Sandoval, 2021). Newbury's contribution focuses on artists' role in urban economic development, …

Kenneth M. Miller (Political Science) spoke with the Associated Press about Vice President Kamala Harris' visit to Las Vegas as part of the White House's efforts to promote the recent pandemic relief legislation passed by Congress.

Dr. David Glenn Weismiller (Medicine) presented (virtually) at the Fourth Congress of the Emirates Family Medicine Society held in March. His presentations at this international medical education conference were "The COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges and Primary Health Care Services" and  "Choosing Wisely - A Means of Integrating…

Stephen Bates (Journalism and Media Studies) has won the Goldsmith Book Prize for the best trade book about the media and democracy, awarded by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. The $5,000 prize honors his book An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That…

Karl Kingsley, Melissa Trumbo, Namgu Kim, Beanca Samiano, Matthew Marrujo. Patrick Perkins, Kevin Foote, and Katherine M. Howard (all Dental) published the manuscript "Scardovia wiggsiae and Streptococcus sobrinus Prevalence among Orthodontic and Non-Orthodontic Patients" in the current issue of the Microbiology…

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) has successfully completed the online training ''18e siècle: le combat des Lumières'' organized by Paris Lumières University/ Université Paris Lumières in Paris. She attended eight weeks of training this year and was awarded a certificate of success this month.

Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article on "Scaling up of Brazil's Criança Feliz Early Childhood Development Program: An Implementation Science Analysis" in the journal ANNALS of the New York Academy of Sciences.  To address inequities that prevent socioeconomically vulnerable young…

Marla Royne Stafford (Hospitality) was honored at the annual American Academy of Advertising conference this month by being named an elected fellow of the academy. The designation of Fellow is for a lifetime of achievement in the advancement of advertising scholarship, education, and service to the discipline. Hence, it is the Academy's broadest…

Xue "Cher" Xing (Teaching and Learning) recently was selected as a Fellow in the 2021 Postsecondary Leadership Success Program at Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) – sponsored by ECMC Foundation. The goal of the program is to support current and aspiring leaders in career and technical education (CTE) and provide professional…