Noehealani Antolin and Tara Nerida (Social and Behavioral Health) won second place in the Graduate Competition Award of the National Case Study Competition in Health Education, organized in partnership with Eta Sigma Gamma and HEDIR. They will be receiving a trophy. Both are graduate students. Their faculty advisor…

Mary Bondmass (Nursing) recently spoke at the Better Medicare Alliance virtual roundtable, a discussion on access to high-quality health coverage. She presented among other health care leaders and U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford of Nevada. Bondmass spoke on behalf of UNLV Nursing and as president of the Nevada Nurses Association, promoting efforts to…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Intimate Boundaries: Toward a Feminist Theory of Borders" to the Center on Ethics and department of philosophy at San Jose State University.

Shaoan Zhang, Danny Unger, Jinkun Shen, Melissa Seltenreich, and David Monroe (all Teaching and Learning) presented their research at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators in Chicago. They presented on the impacts of informal learning opportunities on pre-service teachers’ learning to teach. They presented their Nevada…

Sadia Shaukat (Teaching and Learning) as a Fulbright Scholar from College of Education presented her paper on “Teachers’ Technostress, Work Family Conflict and Life Satisfaction while Working from Home during COVID-19” at the Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference in Chicago earlier this month. She presented the findings of her…

Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) reviewed the Nevada Museum of Art's fall exhibition "Land Art: Expanding the Atlas." The first of a yearlong series of shows on art and environment, "Land Art" identified new pathways in assessing social engagement and dispossession in landscape studies not only in the U.S. West, but also across the world.

Nicholas Irwin (Economics) recently was presented with the 2022 Stough-Johansson Springer Award for the best paper presented by an early-career scholar at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association.The paper was "Is it Really Bridging the Gap? Fiber Internet's Impact on Housing Values and Homebuyer Demographics" and is co-…

LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) was in the first class of superintendents and other administrators to successfully complete the Aspiring Superintendents Academy for Latino and Latina Leaders. Members of the academy were involved in a yearlong professional learning experience involving a blend of theory and…

Ozgur Ozdemir (Hospitality) recently published an article, "Top Management Team Gender Diversity and Firm Risk-taking in the Hospitality Industry," in International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. He co-authored this study with Ezgi Erkmen from Bogazici University in Istanbul.