Steven T. Bickmore (Teaching and Learning) is a leading scholar and advocate for the teaching of young adult literature. He writes a weekly blog post on the subject. On Oct. 4 he addressed the Las Vegas shooting and the role of teachers. The National Council of Teacher of English quoted from the blog and posted a link in…

Chris Wood (Educational and Clinical Studies) gave a presentation, "A Superordinate Group Identity in Forging the Future: Approaches to Caring for New Faculty," at the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision 2017 national conference in Chicago in October.

An-Pyng Sun (Social Work) and Hilarie Cash (reSTART Life) gave a presentation, "Factors Related to the Occurrence and Recovery of Internet Use Disorder," at NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals' 2017 annual conference in Denver in September,.

Melissa Bowles-Terry (Libraries) gave an invited presentation at the Association of Research Libraries fall meeting in Washington, D.C., regarding library impact on student success. Along with Jade Winn from University of Southern California Libraries, she reported on the results of a project launched by the Greater Western Library Alliance…

Laura J. Kruskall (Nutrition Sciences) co-authored, Nutrition for Sport, Exercise, and Health. Fellow authors include Marie A. Spano and D. Travis Thomas. The book includes applied content and research-based guidelines to help students distinguish between nutrition recommendations backed by science and the plethora of misinformation available in…

Kara Radzak (Athletic Training) accepted an invitation to be the sole athletic trainer for Team USA during the 2017 World Archery Para Championship in Beijing, China. The event is held biannually and is second to the Paralympic Games in event prestige. The championship event received more than 200 athletes from nearly 40 nations who competed in 14…

Rebecca Gill (Political Science and the Women's Research Institute of Nevada) and Michael  Kagan (Law), along with Fatma Marouf of Texas A&M University School of Law, recently published an article, "The Impact of Maleness on Judicial Decision Making: Masculinity, Chivalry, and Immigration Appeals," in the journal Politics, Groups,…

Ben Edwards (Law) recently presented a work in progress titled "Venture Bearding" to the faculty of the Florida International University College of Law in Miami..

John Hay (English) is the author of Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature, a new book published by Cambridge University Press. This scholarly monograph explores the ways that many U.S. authors in the early nineteenth century (such as Cooper, Hawthorne, and Thoreau) imagined a future following a global catastrophe.…