Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) and Dong-Chan Lee (Chemistry) are inventors of a patent, Fabricating Ionic/Polyimide Membranes with its issue number, US 11,312,851, recently granted by the , the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.   

Carrie Jeffrey (Nursing) was honored with the Presidential Teaching Excellence Award for the 2021-22 school year. Jeffrey currently works at Weber State University. She is a third-year Ph.D. student on the nursing education track at UNLV.

Brittany Paloma Fiedler (Libraries) was elected as an at-large member to the instruction section of the Association of College & Research Libraries for 2022-23. The instruction section supports academic and research librarians with learning, teaching, and research on information literacy in higher education. She will begin her service on July…

Amanda Ostwald and Arya Udry (both Geoscience) and their collaborators, Valerie Payré (NAU), Esteban Gazel (Cornell), and Peiyu Wu (Cornell) published a paper, “The Role of Assimilation and Factional Crystallization in the Evolution of the Mars Crust”, in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Ostwald is geoscience graduate student, and…

Katherine Hertlein (Medicine) and Edwin Oh (Medicine and Sciences) are recipients of the 2022 Distinguished Barrick Scholar Award, given to senior faculty to honor excellence in research. Hertlein, a professor in the couple and family therapy program in the department of psychiatry and behavioral health, and Oh, associate professor of internal…

Aude Picard, Nader Nabeh, and Cheyenne Brokaw (all Life Sciences) published a research article, "Quantification of Organic Carbon Sequestered by Biogenic Iron Sulfide Minerals in Long-Term Anoxic Laboratory Incubations," in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. Organic carbon preservation in sedimentary environments is a critical process…

Rebecca T. Barber (Financial Planning, Budget, and Analysis), along with several co-authors from Arizona State University and Virginia Tech, published a new article, "Emergency Fostering of Dogs from Animal Shelters During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Shelter Practices, Foster Caregiver Engagement, and Dog Outcomes"  in Frontiers in Veterinary…

Col. Jacqueline Killian (Nursing) received the TSNRP Scientific Mentorship Award in the Active Duty category. Currently an Air Force intern with UNLV Nursing, she will transition to full-time faculty later this year upon her retirement from the Air Force.

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health) co-authored an article, " An Authoritative Parenting Model of Offender Rehabilitation" in the journal Sociological Imagination with colleagues from Jackson State University and Auburn University at Montgomery. This interdisciplinary article has important implications for offender rehabilitation.