Amy Brown (Music) presented a session to K-12 educators titled, Gamifying Assessments: Where Do I Begin? at the Silver State Technology Conference in Las Vegas in September 2022. The focus of this session was to compare and contrast the popular assessment sites so that educators could decide which tool would best fit their classroom needs for…

Noah Romero (Education) published "Postcolonial Philosophy of Education in the Philippines" in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Education, which has recently been released in hard copy. The entry examines how Philippine educational thought emerges out of complex entanglements involving statecraft, decolonization, and Indigenous self-…

The Computer Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has recognized Hal Berghel (Computer Science) with the designation of Charter Member of the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor program for 2022. This program, introduced in 2021 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the IEEE Computer Society, "showcases…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's ombuds office. The post explores the Working Better Together Series, a collection of workshops for the Human Resources Professional Development program that's happening this semester. For more information about the Ombuds Office, please visit its…

Christina A. Patterson (CAPS) and co-authors published, "Development of the awareness, skills, knowledge: General (ASK-G) scale for measuring cultural competence in the general population." This article details the development of a measure for cultural competence to be used in the general population to measure change in awareness, skills, and…

Nerses Kopalyan published an article in the Times of Israel on the relationship between Israel's arms sales to Azerbaijan, and the implications of this policy in light of Azerbaijan's growing anti-Americanism. 

Nerses Kopalyan published an article in Le Figaro, one of the most prestigious publications in France, on the energy deal between the European Union and Azerbaijan, and the geopolitical implications of Europe enabling oil-rich autocracies. 

Marla Stafford (Lee Business School) and Nicole Hudson (Workforce Development) are members of Leadership Las Vegas' Class of 2023. Leadership Las Vegas is a 10-month executive leadership program sponsored by the Vegas Chamber designed to expand knowledge in the community so that participants become more effective leaders and change agents. 

Siddharth Raich, Asma Awan, Christopher Johansen, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) presented two papers at Nevada Public Health Association’s Annual Conference on September 13 and 14, 2022. The papers were titled, “Disparities in cervical cancer screening programs among minority women in the United…