Kathryn Houk (Libraries) will co-present a webinar, "Drawn to Graphic Medicine: Bringing Comics into Medical Librarianship," for the Medical Library Association later this month. The webinar will discuss where graphic medicine came from and why it is valuable, how to start collecting graphic medicine at a library, and how it can integrate…

The Hospitality Academic Advising Center has been recognized as Advising Center of the Year during the 2020 Academic Achievement Awards. This honor was bestowed through student votes for the best advising center.  

Fawn Douglas (Art) has a video that is included in the Road Trip Nation documentary project with a series of interviews about her day-to-day life; the educational paths she's on; the hurdles she's faced along the way; what it means to be a leader; advice for aspiring artists; the importance of culture, activism, and education; and growing up as a…

John Mercer, Andrew Craig-Jones, and Daniel Denton (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) are co-authors, along with lead author Kenji Masumoto of Japan's Kyushu University, on a manuscript published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology. The manuscript is titled "The Effects of Stride Frequency Manipulation on Physiological and…

Giorgio Canarella (Economics) and Stephen M. Miller (Center for Business and Economic Research) published “Persistence and Cyclical Dynamics of U.S. and U.K. House Prices: Evidence from over 150 Years of Data," along with  Luis A. Gil-Alana, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, and Rangan…

Marketa Trimble (Law) wrote an editorial, "COVID-19 and Transnational Issues in Copyright and Related Rights," which was published in The International Review of Intellectual Property Law, the law review of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. 

Courtney Jones (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) was a Hall of Fame inductee at the 2020 Rebel Awards. In her four years at UNLV she has been heavily involved with departments and organizations such as Student Diversity & Social Justice, Students United for Reproductive Justice, Students Organizing…

David G. Schwartz (Faculty Affairs) recently published an essay in Desert Companion on the deeper meaning of the COVID-19 shutdown for Las Vegas, examining how, over its 115-year history, the city has embraced a variety of "essential" roles, the latest of which was hospitality and entertainment capital. But what happens to the world's most…

Thomas Padilla (Libraries) is co-author of an article, "Digital Sources and Digital Archives: Historical Evidence in the Digital Age," published in the International Journal of Digital Humanities.