Jon Castagnino (Journalism and Media Studies) serves as the featured professional in the chapter "Audio and Video Journalism" in Convergent Journalism, 3rd edition, newly published by Taylor and Francis. In the book, Castagnino shares his experience as a television sportscaster, providing tips for future broadcast journalists.

Jacob Thompson (Communication Studies) was quoted in an article related to public speaking and debate skills. Thompson, director of the UNLV Debate Team, was featured in the article "How to Stick to Your Talking Points: When You’re Trying to Get a Point Across, Embrace Your Inner Candidate."

Sapira Cheuk (Art), Chad Scott (Teaching and Learning), and Richard Zwiercan (Libraries) are participating in an exhibition titled Existing in Thought, which is on display through March 4 at Winchester Cultural Center gallery. The exhibit features 42 works of art by 34 selected artists. Russian-born guest curator Valentin Yordanov has exhibited…

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Math) presented a paper, "Making Proofs Palatable," at the annual Joint Mathematics Meeting held in Denver earlier this month. The travel to the conference was partially supported by the University Faculty Travel Committee.  

Anne H. Stevens (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies), along with alumna Molly C. O'Donnell, '15 PhD English, have co-edited the collection The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture with Bloomsbury, released this month. Contributors to this collection of essays about highly specific cultural genres include Megan Becker,…

Michelle Tusan (History) is the author of the book, The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide: Humanitarianism and Imperial Politics from Gladstone to Churchill, which now is out in paperback.

Jason Scavone, Katy Griffin (both Integrated Marketing & Branding), Nichole Schultz (International Gaming Institute), and  Lonnie Timmons III (Photo Services) recently won first-place awards in the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education District VII competition. Timmons won a Gold award for individual photography for his…

Ian McDonough (Economics) recently presented his research on racial/ethnic disparities in food security to the Nevada Governor's Council on Food Security. He discussed the well-documented gaps in food security rates between non-Hispanic white households and minority households both nationally and in Nevada and his recently…

Chris R. Cochran, Yong-Jae Lee, Jay J. Shen (all Health Care Administration and Policy), Ji Won Yoo (Medicine), and Seong-Min Park (Criminal Justice), along with Pearl Kim, '19 PhD Public Health, and Sungyoun Chun, a former visiting international scholar in Health Care Administration and Policy, published an article on "Trends and Associated…