The Nevada Taxpayers Association (NTA) voted to welcome Constance Brooks Johnson (Government and Community Engagement) to its Board of Directors. Her appointment is for a three-year term, ending Dec. 31, 2028. As a member of the NTA Board of Directors, Brooks Johnson will play a vital role in shaping the organization’s work and establishing…

Several faculty members from the William S. Boyd School of Law’s Lawyering Process program held key committee roles for the Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing Conference: Lori Johnson (Law) served on the Conference Committee, Suzanna Geiser (Law) on the Site Committee, and Rebecca Scharf (Law) on the Program Committee.

Nancy Rapoport (Law) and Joseph R. Tiano Jr. presented a live webinar on Ethical Pricing in the AI Era: Fees, Professional Responsibility, and the Future of the Law Firm Business Model for wickard.ai.

Suzanna Geiser (Law) presented "From Memories to Meaning: Moth-Inspired Storybuilding for Legal Writers" at the 2026 Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing Conference.

Rebecca Scharf (Law) was a plenary speaker at a talk entitled, "25 Years of Legal Writing: Where Did We Come From and Where Are We Going?" at the Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing Conference.

Raef Granger (Law) presented on "Integrating Performance Tests into Legal Writing Courses: Understanding their Purpose and Impact" at the 2026 Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing Conference.

Van “DocDoc” Whaley (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), faculty-in-residence and A&P program coordinator, recently presented at ExplOER Nevada 2026, a statewide virtual symposium focused on open and affordable learning. His session, "Reimagining Learning Beyond the Textbook: Open Course Design for Equity, Rigor, and Enjoyment at Scale,"…

Avinash Yaganapu, Sai Phani Parsa, and Mingon Kang (all Computer Science) published a paper, "Prediction of bacterial Cytochrome P450-compound interactions based on positive-unlabeled deep learning," in Bioinformatics. Many biological interaction datasets (e.g., protein-compound interactions) suffer from a fundamental problem: we often only…

Hans Rawhouser (Management & Entrepreneurship) recently published "Configurations of Social Impact and Behavioral Search" in Journal of Business Ethics (rated as a top journal in Financial Times' international business school ranking). If you're interested in how social enterprises can take different approaches to achieving social impact…