Aaron Mayes (Libraries) received the 2019 Historic Preservation Award from the city of Las Vegas in the Preservation Education Category for his work curating an exhibit featuring images of Las Vegas' Historic Westside neighborhood by photographer Clinton Wright. The exhibit has previously been on display at the Historic Westside School and at…

Jef Jaeger (Life Sciences) and Anthony Waddle, '15 BS Biology, '17 MS Biology, were among an international team spearheaded by the Erica Rosenblum Lab at UC Berkeley that published “Cryptic Diversity of a Widespread Global Pathogen Reveals New Threats to Amphibian Conservation." The paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…

Philip Danquah (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Amanda Annan (Health Care Administration and Policy) presented a scientific poster at the 2019 Nevada Public Health Annual Conference last month at Whitney Peak Hotel in Reno. The poster was titled "Dapivirine Vaginal Ring Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Awareness, Perceptions, and Uptake among…

Anabel Chavva (Service Learning and Leadership), Kevin Wright (Student Diversity and Social Justice), Cecil Yeckes (Sociology) Theresa Butler (Urban Studies), and Zarria Benniefield (Engineering) were part of a panel hosted by the HOPE Scholars Program and Faculty Center last month. Panel members discussed ways to support students who are…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and Yale colleagues recently published a paper, “Is Emotion Dysregulation Associated with Suicidal Ideation in Post 9/11 Veterans?” in Archives of Suicide Research.

Artem V. Gelis, Daniel Koury, Frederic Poineau, Kenneth R. Czerwinski (all Radiochemistry) are members of the research team whose noteworthy work recently was recognized in Angewandte Chemie, a leading weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published on behalf of the German Chemical Society. The team, headed by Christopher…

Samantha Godbey (Libraries) and Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) recently published "Career Exploration at the Middle School Level: Barriers and Opportunities" in Middle Grades Review. The authors discuss the theoretical and empirical basis for career exploration at the middle school level and identify selected barriers to its…

Monserrath Hernández (Journalism and Media Studies), Maribel Estrada Calderón (History), Marcela Rodriguez-Campo (Teaching and Learning), Elsa Lopez (Education), Laurents Bañuelos-Benitez (Education), Rodrigo Vazquez (Economics), and Nathalie Martinez (Honors) were each recently awarded a student scholarship from the city of Las Vegas…

Buddha Dawn, Lin Zhao, Guangming Cheng, Magdy Girgis, Jeryl Hauptman and Yanjuan Yang (all Medicine) are members of the research team whose noteworthy work recently was recognized in Circulation Research, the official journal of the American Heart Association. The team, headed by Dr. Dawn, studies the use of stem cell therapy for heart…