Art Gelis (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and his work as part of the team that developed and patented the ALSEP Process (Actinide Lanthanide Separation Process) are featured in a story published recently by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The article highlights the successful tests of the ALSEP process that eventually will lead to…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender and Ethnic Studies) published an article in the Washington Post, "Why Right-Wing Commentators Distort the History of Slavery and Emancipation." Parry is an assistant professor of African American and African diaspora studies.  

Wylie Tang, Dr. Karl Kingsley, and Dr. Robin Reinke (all Dental Medicine) had their research paper, "Impact of Collaborative Leadership in Dental School Team Clinics," published in the December 2019 issue of the Journal of Dental Education.  A study was conducted to determine if students' perceptions of a team leader's openness of…

Marina Colacicchi-Garber's (World Languages and Culture) fourth and final part of selection Poems of 2016 was published in Russian-German editorial The Text.   

Rosan Mitola (Libraries) had an article, "Reframing library student employment as a high-impact practice: Implications from case studies," published in the journal, College & Undergraduate Libraries. Mitola co-authored the article with colleagues Erin Rinto, a former UNLV librarian now at the University of Cincinnati, and Kate Otto from…

Stephen M. Miller (Center for Business and Economic Research) published a paper, "U.S. Fiscal Policy and Asset Prices: The Role of Partisan Conflict," in the December issue of the International Review of Finance with  Rangan Gupta, University of Pretoria; Chi Keung Marco Lau, University of Huddersfield; and Mark E. Wohar, University of…

Ruben J. Garcia (Law) will give the keynote address at the regional meeting of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at California State University, Long Beach on Dec. 6. The lecture, "Life After Janus: Lessons from Nevada," will be part of the two-day conference, which…

C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) gave an invited presentation at the University of Colorado (CU), Boulder. In this talk, titled "It’s Not Just a Personal Preference: Racialized Discrimination in the Tinder Context," she argued that drawing race-based distinctions in the dating context constitutes deeply wrongful…

Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) accepted an invitation to speak during and serve as session chair for the American Association for Dental Research Fall Focused Symposium, Integrating Omic Datasets Towards Translation.” He presented "Gingival Transcriptomic Patterns using a Nonhuman Primate Matriline Model of Periodontitis," and chaired the closing…