Heather Rappaport (Law) served as the co-chair of the 2024 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Institutional Advancement Conference. She also serves on the Institutional Advancement Section Executive Board of the AALS.
Victor Fearn, Man Vu (both Computer Science) and external UNLV Clinic member Leo Guerrero, had the chance to present as part of the Datasec Cybersecurity CISO Innovation Summit event hosted at the International Innovation Center.
Datasec, organizers of the event, invited the Cyber Clinic to present after their earlier presentation this year at…
Kasra Ghaharian (International Gaming Institute) has been honored as one of the Emerging Leaders of Gaming (ELG) 40 Under 40 for the Class of 2025. This prestigious recognition is presented by The Innovation Group in collaboration with Global Gaming Business (GGB) magazine.
The ELG 40 Under 40 program celebrates professionals under the…
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented "Cervantes' Poetic Contributions to Philosophical Change" at the Cervantes Now/Ahora conference held in Albuquerque, NM on September 19-20. Byrne's paper situated the creative author's thought in the trajectory of historical intellectual developments that would create a foundation for later…
Danielle Finn (Law) presented on the history of treaty-making between the United States and Tribal Nations at Clark County School District - Indian Education Opportunities Program's Law & Treaties Day.
Chad Hensley and Heidi Shelton (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) were the first imaging technologists to speak at the annual TravelCon Conference, the largest conference dedicated to traveling healthcare professionals.
Hensley spoke on medical imaging's role in child abuse - a modality review, and Shelton spoke on fatal and gonadal…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled "Evaluation of bio-efficacy of field-aged novel long-lasting insecticidal nets (PBO, chlorfenapyr or pyriproxyfen combined with pyrethroid) against Anopheles gambiae (s.s.) in Tanzania" in the journal Current Research in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases…
Danica G. Hays (Education) recently co-authored a 27-year scoping review of online instructional practices and outcomes in counselor education. The article is featured in the Counselor Education and Supervision journal, the flagship journal of the Association of Counselor Education and Supervision.
Jichun Li (Mathematical Sciences) published a single authored paper in the top journal Computers & Mathematics with Applications (vol.172, 2024, pp.111-124). Here he proved one-order higher superconvergence for the time-dependent Maxwell's equations solved by arbitrary order H(curl) and H(div) basis functions on rectangular and cuboid elements…
From Lake Mead to the Backyard: Water Conservation 101
Longtime UNLV soil, water, and plant scientist Dale Devitt shatters sustainability myths and shares lawn care tips and tricks to maximize water conservation for desert living.
After years of building a career at a large accounting firm, Gloribert Roque-Melendez planned an early retirement. Guest lecturing at UNLV gave her an unexpected reason to change course.