Cyrus Zarganj (Libraries) is a co-author of the 2022 update of the "Persian NACO Manual" published by the Middle East Librarians Association Committee on Cataloging. The guidelines in this manual are used by libraries to create authority records for names that appear in the Perso-Arabic script on a manifestation written in the Persian…

Yaa Obeng (Nursing) was elected as a member of the UNLV chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society.

Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has written an article, "A Collapsing Academy, Part III: Scientometrics and Metric Mania," that appears in the March issue of IEEE Computer. This is the third installment of a six-part series written by Berghel that describes the challenges and threats that face higher education today.

Tiange Xu (Hospitality), Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute), and Shane Kraus (Psychology) presented a poster, "Problem Gambling and Mental Health Disorders among Undergraduate Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic", at the 2022 New Horizons In Responsible Gambling Conference.

Aldo Barrita (Psychology) was one of the two UNLV graduate students accepted at the Crossing Latinidades Summer Institute in Latino Humanities Studies Methodologies and Theories to take place at the University of Illinois at Chicago this summer. The institute’s goal is to equip participants who are already thinking of dissertation ideas with…

John Curry (History) was a featured panelist on a March 5 radio program on KCEP 88.1. "The Ottoman Empire and Tolerance in Society" was hosted by Mujahid Ramadan and also included professor Bojan Petrovic of the University of California, Irvine. The program discussed various aspects of Ottoman culture from its origins in Central Asia to the legacy…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored an article, “Nutrition Literacy of Middle School Students and its Influencing Factors: A Cross-sectional Study in Chongqing, China” in collaboration with colleagues from Chongqing Medical University (China); Sichuan University (China); department of communicable disease and prevention,…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds Office) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the office's blog. "A Matter of Perspective" begins with a personal observation that leads to some thoughts on how we present ourselves — and how what we see of others is not always the complete picture.

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) accepted a postdoctoral fellow position at the Center for Law & History at Stanford Law School for 2022-24.