Dr. Karen West (Dental Medicine) accepted an appointment as the Dental Squadron Honorary Commander for the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis and Creech Air Force bases. In this role, she is charged with encouraging the exchange of ideas, experiences, and friendships between the civilian and military communities. She received this honor during an…

Donald Price (Life Sciences) is one of the authors of a scientific article titled "A Test for Gene Flow among Sympatric and Allopatric Hawaiian Picture-Winged Drosophila"   that recently was published in the Journal of Molecular Evolution.    

Edward Lynch (Dental) recently had two more peer-reviewed papers published in dental journals. Published online in Implant Dentistry in May was  “Heat Generation on Implant Surfaces During Abutment Preparation at Different Elapsed Times." The purpose of this study was to evaluate heat generation at the implant surface caused by abutment…

Katherine Hertlein and Gerald Weeks (both Marriage and Family Therapy) have won the Integrative Approaches to Sex Therapy Award from the American Association for Sexuality Counselors, Educators, and Therapists (AASECT). This award is for creative applications of an integrative and interactive approach to sexual issues in clinical work with…

Philip Danquah (Public Health) received the Professor Roosevelt Fitzgerald Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership Award in the graduate student category from the UNLV Alliance of Professionals of African Heritage earlier this month. In addition to working toward a doctoral degree in public health, he is a graduate assistant in the registrar's…

Janet Runge (Center for Entrepreneurship) coordinated a five‐way partnership between Lee Business School, Cox Communications, Bank of Nevada, Caesars Entertainment, and Manheim Nevada that has produced 12 new graduates of the Small Business Leadership Academy (SBLA). The SBLA certificate program aims to empower participants with the…

Howard Gordon (Teaching and Learning) and Samantha Godbey (University Libraries) are co-editors of the Journal of Research in Technical Careers, a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the department of teaching and learning and hosted by UNLV Libraries. The journal published its inaugural issue in May.

Yu Kuang (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences), Sharon Jalene (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Danny Young (Physical Therapy) are the recipients of this year's "Distinguished" awards from the  School of Allied Health Sciences. Kuang received the Distinguished Scholar Award, while Jalene received the Distinguished Teaching Award,…

John Starkey and Erica Shelton (both Business) were instrumental in Starkey's spring BUS 103 class, Business Connections/First Year Seminar, raising $4,054.66 for the National Children's Cancer Society. Shelton, a freshmen business student, took charge and led the class of 21 students in its fundraising efforts. The students…