Nancy J. Uscher (Fine Arts) recently was elected secretary of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD) Board. UNLV's College of Fine Arts will host the ICFAD annual meeting in Las Vegas in 2021. Uscher has been dean of the College of Fine Arts since the summer of 2016.

David G. Schwartz (Faculty Affairs) was the featured speaker at the October meeting of the Italian-American Club of Las Vegas. His talk, "A History of Italian-Americans in Las Vegas, with a Focus on Hospitality," was warmly received, and by popular demand he delivered additional remarks about current issues in the gaming industry. A robust…

Richard Gardner (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) and co-authors Jeffrey Bednar (Brigham Young University), Bryan Stewart (BYU), James Oldroyd (BYU), and Joseph Moore (Stanford University) recently had their paper, "'I Must Have Slipped through the Cracks Somehow': An Examination of Coping with Perceived Impostorism and the Role of…

Vivek Sah (Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies) recently presented his paper, "Steering Consumers to Affiliated Financial Services: Evidence from Brokered Housing Transactions," at the Cambridge-NUS-University of Florida Symposium at University of Cambridge.

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) was invited to give a plenary talk at the 14th Coloquio Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas, held at the Università Ca' Foscari in Venice, Italy, earlier this month. Her talk was titled "Cervantes y el Derecho: Préstamos Recíprocos." 

Iman Ansari (Architecture) wrote a review of the CCA Channel, which was published in the latest issue of Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. CCA Channel is the YouTube channel of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), an international research institution based in Montreal. The review discusses the CCA Channel…

Amanda Belarmino (Hospitality) received an IEHA Membership Study Award from the International Executive Housekeepers Association.

Thomas Padilla (Libraries) served as a U.S. delegate to UK-US Collaboration for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions. The two-day workshop in Washington, D.C.. focused on fostering transatlantic collaborations in the area of digital scholarship between the United States and the United Kingdom. 

Joseph Morgan and Alain Bengochea (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) were awarded the Full Service Community Schools Grant through the U.S. Department of Education office of innovation and improvement in the amount of $2.5 million to implement a project titled ReInvent Schools Las Vegas - Community Schools Initiative…