Susan Wainscott (Libraries) has been a key partner in a year-long, federally funded, multidisciplinary review conducted by the UNLV College of Engineering faculty of available literature and data on renewable energy and water resource projects in central Africa. She trained the research team in search strategies, assisted with hard-…

Gary Cerefice and Ralf Sudowe (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) and Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) received a nearly $400,000 grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to establish the UNLV nuclear science and engineering fellowship program. Beginning fall 2016, the new four-year program will award at least four…

Szu-Ping Lee (Physical Therapy) and Edward Neumann (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction, Emeritus) spoke during the 2015 World Congress of the International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics in Lyon, France. Their presentation, "Optimizing Functions for Individuals with Lower Extremity Amputation: Clinicians' Perspective on…

Sue Wainscott (Libraries), John Novak (Libraries), and Mohamed Trabia (Engineering) are participating in the 2015 cohort of the Digital Library Federation E-Research Network. The goal of the network is to create a mutually supportive community engaged in continuous learning about e-research and data management support. The UNLV team will produce a…

Erica Marti (Civil and Environmental Engineering) was selected to join the U.S. delegation and attend the 2015 Interdisciplinary Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in Lindau, Germany. She is one of 55 U.S. students chosen by Oak Ridge Associated Universities to participate in this international scientific meeting with 70 Nobel Laureates in attendance.…

Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) just published a paper in Scientific Reports. The title of the paper is "Nanothorn Electrodes for Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Artificial Muscles."

Darrell Pepper (Mechanical Engineering) has been selected to receive the Lifetime Achievement Medal from the International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES) for "seminal contributions to computational environmental fluid dynamics." The award will be presented at the opening ceremony of ICCES 15, which…

Kishor Shrestha, Pramen Shrestha (both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), and Evangelos Yfantis (Computer Science) are co-authors of a book, Framework Development for Construction Safety Visualization, that is based on Kishor Shrestha's thesis.

Erica Marti (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) is among 25 graduate students across the country selected to conduct research in Australia as part of the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI). For eight weeks this summer, she is doing research at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, involving potable water reuse and…

Tracy Johnson (Liberal Arts), Valarie Burke (Vice Provost Academic Affairs), Stacy Shapin (Fine Arts), Kristie Berthelotte (Fine Arts), Heather Hatch (Academic Success Center), Chris Parker (Engineering), Sal Mora (Academic Success Center), David Belt (Sciences), and Michael Biesiada (Business) made presentations at the annual NACADA (National…

Charlotta Sanders (Engineering) and Kevin Wilcoxon (Online Education) are the authors of a paper, "Developing and Implementing Online Nuclear Criticality Safety Training and Education" that Sanders presented at the Nuclear Criticality Safety Division of the American Nuclear Society annual conference in Wilmington, N.C., in October.

Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering), along with Choonghee Jo, David Pugal, Il-Kwon Oh, and Kinji Asaka published a review paper titled "Recent Advances in Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Actuators and their Modeling and Applications" in Progress in Polymer Science.