Fatemeh Azari (Mechanical Engineering) has been selected as the recipient of an American Society of Mechanical Engineers Engineering Scholarship. The competition for the scholarship is rigorous. Azari, a junior, previously has received 10 scholarships at the local, state, and national levels.

Arya Udry (Geoscience) and coauthors’ paper, “Formation of Evolved Rocks at Gale Crater by Crystal Fractionation and Implications for Mars Crustal Composition” recently was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets. This paper focuses on the formation of the rare Martian rocks measured by the rover Curiosity at Gale Crater on Mars…

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) had an article published in Research in Higher Education. The article, "Fractions in College: How Basic Math Remediation Impacts Community College Students," examines a unique math placement policy where students were placed into remedial math courses based on specific math skill gaps,…

John Novak and Annette Day (Libraries) recently had an article published in the New Review of Academic Librarianship. The article, "The IR Has Two Faces: Positioning Institutional Repositories for Success," describes University Libraries' ongoing efforts to evolve the role of the institutional repository, Digital Scholarship@UNLV. 

Drs. Allison McNickle, Timothy Dickhudt, Jorge Vega, Paul Chestovich and Douglas Fraser (all Medicine) are the authors of "Emergent Chest Wall Reconstruction for an Incarcerated Pulmonary Hernia," which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. All five are trauma surgeons.

Mark Lenker (Libraries) is the recipient of the 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press Award for Developmentalism: Learning as the Basis for Evaluating Information, the best article featured in the journal, "portal: Libraries and the Academy". The award was presented during the American Library Association's annual conference in New Orleans last…

Danica G. Hays (Education) and co-authors were awarded the Patricia B. Elmore Award for Outstanding Research by the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling for their publication, "Initial Development of the Teen Screen for Dating Violence: Exploratory Factor Analysis, Rasch Model, and Psychometric Data"…

Arthur Hockwald (Campus Recreational Services) made two presentations at the UC Fitcon Conference at the University of California, Riverside in June. The topics were "Clean Slate: Creating a Personal Training Program" and "Motor Learning: Internal and External Focus." Hockwald, a graduate assistant, also took a leadership role as operations…

Stephen M. Miller (Center for Business and Economic Research) and Giorgio Canarella (Economics) recently co-authored "The Determinants of Growth in the U.S. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Industry: A Firm-Level Analysis" published in the Economics Modeling journal.