Notable: Joe Alvarado, Stacy Sumpter, and Kayla Sullivan
Joe Alvarado, Stacy Sumpter, and Kayla Sullivan (all Nursing) are graduate students who recently successfully defended their Doctor of Nursing Practice projects. They will earn their doctorate statuses when they finish their classes. Topics included:
Sullivan: “An Intervention to Improve Nurses' Knowledge, Perceived Safety, and…
Appointment/Election: Rocky Rockstraw
Leland "Rocky" Rockstraw (Nursing), director of the Clinical Simulation Center, was elected by the National Academies of Practice (NAP) as a Distinguished Practitioner & Fellow. The class of 2021 Fellows were welcomed into NAP in a virtual awards and induction ceremony earlier this month.
Presentation: Jenna Heath and Sam Leif
Jenna Heath (Liberal Arts) and Sam Leif (Summer Term) presented at The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, the topic being "Experiential Learning During COVID-19: Did We Serve Our Students?" They discussed the power of virtual internships during COVID-19.
Presentation: Michelle Tusan
Michelle Tusan (History) delivered a lecture, "Mapping Genocide and the Refugee Experience during the Great War in the Middle East," for the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Published: David Rice, Zach Grande, Jason Steffen, Ashkan Salamat, and Oliver Tschauner
David Rice, Zachary Grande, Ashkan Salamat, Jason Steffen (all Physics and Astronomy), and Oliver Tschauner (Geoscience), along with former UNLV postdoc Chenliang Huang (Physics and Astronomy) published a study on the properties of the interiors of distant, extrasolar planets in the "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society." This…
Honors: Aaron Cowan, Erin Drew, Keeva Lough, John McVay, Laurence Reese, and Emily Sarten
Aaron Cowan, Erin K. Drew, Keeva Danielle Lough, John McVay, Laurence Myers Reese, and Emily Sarten (all Art) received congressional commendations from Congresswoman Dina Titus. Each MFA candidate was recognized for contributing to the arts and culture in Las Vegas. The commendation was presented to them on the occasion of exhibiting work at…
Presentation: Kevin Wright
Kevin Wright (Student Diversity & Social Justice) presented a workshop on implementing diversity, inclusion, and social justice into one's lifestyle in front of business professionals at the University of Pittsburgh.
Published: Rebecca Rice
Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies) published an article in Management Communication Quarterly titled "High Reliability Collaborations: Theorizing Interorganizational Reliability as Constituted through Translation." The article studies how multiple risk and emergency organizations collaborate across organizational boundaries to address…
Published: Hassan Ziada, Marcia Ditmyer, and Neamat Hassan
Dr. Hassan Ziada, Dr. Marcia Ditmyer, and Dr. Neamat Hassan (all Dental) co-authored, "Reflections of Psychomotor Skill Development in Preclinical Simulation: A Qualitative Analysis," which appeared online this month in the European Journal of Dental Education.
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