Cory Rusinek (Chemistry and Biochemistry) was awarded $315,000 from Batelle Savannah River Alliance, LLC for his project titled, "Long-term monitoring of pertechnetate and other radionuclides in groundwater using passive sampling and a novel electrochemical sensor." The funding comes from the Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program…

Hikmet Loe (Art) published an article on Aug. 16 in the Southwest Contemporary titled, "Land Art Diary: Utah's Earthworks Feel the Heat of Climate Change." 

David Schwartz (Ombuds) published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's Ombuds Office. The post, titled "A New Way to Grow: Feedforward," describes Schwartz's recent encounter with Marshall Goldsmith's improvement exercise, explains the concept, and discusses how it is now available to UNLV employees. For more information…

Alexandrea Washington (Mechanical Engineering), with Zakai Olsen, Ji Su, and Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering), published "A physics-based modeling of a hydraulically amplified electrostatic actuator," in the Journal of Physics Communications. 

Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) was the senior author for a chapter in the textbook, "Blood Substitutes and Oxygen Biotherapeutics," published by Springer Nature. His chapter was titled, "Platelet Substitutes."

Stephen M. Miller and Andrew Woods (both Center for Business and Economic Research) published a paper, "A Tale of Two Cities Diversifying Economies," in The Regulatory Review on August 15, 2022. The paper considers a case study of differences in economic development processes between Las Vegas and Reno. For many years, policymakers and analysts…

Patrice Leverett (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) and her colleagues were awarded the 2022 Anti-Racism Action Grant from Division 16 of the American Psychological Association (APA). Her project utilizes participant action research to increase anti-racism and decolonial efforts in the teaching and practice of…

Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) served as co-chair of the 5th Leadership Education Academy in Washington, D.C. (Aug 8-11, 2022). Hosted by the International Leadership Association, the academy draws together leadership educators from around the world for a three day intensive learning program on leadership theory, practice…

Yong Li (Troesh Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation) received the Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management Review (AMR), an A+ journal on the Lee Business School's journal list. The mission of the AMR is to publish theoretical insights that advance our understanding of management and organizations.