Dr. Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (Medicine) associate professor of internal medicine and Governor of the Nevada Chapter of the American College of Physicians, was awarded two 2025 John Tooker Evergreen Awards for enriching, educating, and engaging membership. The Nevada Chapter partnered with the Arizona Chapter to engineer debates between residency teams…

Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) presented a poster titled "A Mandibular Radiolucency Leads to Extra-Oral Findings and an Unexpected Multiple Myeloma Diagnosis" during the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology annual meeting earlier this month. The case focused on a 49-year-old female who was initially referred to oral surgery for…

Amanda Koziura (Libraries) presented a paper, "I Have to Pay to Keep My Job: Examining Financial Barriers to Promotion and/or Tenure," at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2025 conference. The paper, co-authored by Faith Bradham from Bakersfield College and Maura Seale from the University of Michigan, explores the…

Dan Werra (Libraries) is the winner of the Libraries' Administrative Faculty of the Year Award. He was nominated for his outstanding customer service and creative problem solving in the growth and maintenance of University Libraries technologies. He has worked closely within the Libraries on technology upgrades that benefit both faculty and…

Tanya Al-Talib, Hassan Ziada, Neamat Hassan (all Dental), and Xan Goodman (University Libraries) published in the Journal of Dentistry (Elsevier) a manuscript titled, "Bruxism and Direct and Indirect Restorations Failure: A Scoping Review." This manuscript evaluated the relationship between bruxism and the failure of both direct and indirect…

Professor Benjamin Edwards (Law) presented on a virtual panel titled, "Redux- If Not Delaware, Where?," for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Pacific Southwest Chapter.

Roberto Lovato (English) was invited to deliver a talk on the Urgency of Unforgetting, via Zoom, to the University of Puerto Rico's English department on April 9, 2025.

Joseph Kevin Sebastian (Libraries) presented a paper, "Reframing Information Seeking in the Age of Generative AI: A Critical and Humanistic Approach," at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2025 conference. Using the lens of queer theory and critical digital literacy, this paper looks at how tools like ChatGPT are…

Kathryn Houk (Libraries; Medicine) is the winner of the Libraries' Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award. She was nominated for her exceptional work on the publication Toward Inclusive Academic Library Hiring Practices, which she co-edited. She also contributed a chapter, co-written with colleagues Christina Miskey and Jason Aubin, about…