Takashi Yamashita,  Erick López, and Jennifer Keene (all Sociology) published their article, "Predictors of Adult Education Program Satisfaction in Urban Community-Dwelling Older Adults" in the journal Educational Gerontology.  

Anne Stevens (English) is the author of Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction, which was published by Broadview Press in June. This book provides a clear and accessible history of key concepts and movements in the field of literary studies, beginning with the earliest literary theorists of the ancient world and ending with 21st-century…

Marcia Gallo (History) is the author of "No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy, which was published in April. In this, her second book, Gallo examines one of America's most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York.…

Katie Cannata (Journalism and Media Studies), Lee Hanover (History), Bella Victoria Smith (Interdisciplinary Studies), and Manuela Bowles (English) recently received the Lance and Elena Calvert Undergraduate Research Award. Given by UNLV's University Libraries, the award recognizes original research and sophisticated critical thinking skills…

P. Jane Hafen (English) and Patrice Hollrah (Writing Center) are members of the American Indian Alliance (AIA) who attended the Native American Literature Symposium (NALS) in Albuquerque in March. As Clan Mothers of NALS, they help to organize the symposium, arrange the book and vendor exhibit, confer literary awards, present papers, and mentor…

John Bowers (English) delivered the keynote presentation "Tolkien at Merton College" to the annual meeting of the Merton College Charitable Corporation convened at the Brooklyn Law School in April. He appeared at the invitation of the host, Nick Allard, dean of the Brooklyn Law School. Among the dignitaries present was the warden of Oxford's…

Manoucheka Celeste (Interdisciplinary Degree Programs) is featured in the article "Haitian Renewal" in the Feb. 12 edition of Diverse Issues in Higher Education. The article highlights the growing field of Haitian studies and includes experts in the field who weigh in on the important contributions and future of Haitian studies. She is an elected…

Erin Rinto (Libraries) and Elisa Cogbill-Seiders (English) are the authors of "Library Instruction and Themed Composition Courses: An Investigation of Factors that Impact Student Learning." It was published in the January issue of The Journal of Academic Librarianship.  

Jordan Watkins (Graduate College) is the recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation Award. He is pursuing a doctoral degree in history. His dissertation is titled "Slavery, Sacred Texts, and the Antebellum Confrontation with History."

Jefferson Kinney, Chelcie Heaney, Monica Bolton, and Andrew Murtishaw (Psychology) served as organizers and judges for the Nevada Brain Bee, a competition for high school students that took place in January. The winner was Liliveth Nunez from East Career and Technical Academy. She will be traveling to Maryland to represent Nevada in the National…

Miriam Melton-Villanueva (History) has been awarded the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is completing her book manuscript, The Aztecs at Independence: Culture Keeping in Central Mexico 1799-1832, on the campus of UCLA this academic year and will return to UNLV in the fall.

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) received the award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, Post-Secondary Level, 2014 from the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, whose members are from Nevada, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. There is one award per year at the post-secondary level.…