Louis Kavouras (Dance) wrote a chapter case study illustrating the building of an assessment culture on campus for the recently published Assessment in Creative Disciplines: Quantifying and Qualifying the Aesthetic. The chapter is centrally placed with seven illustrations and is used as an example of excellent assessment.

Linda Lister (Music) was named one of six semi-finalists for The American Prize in Directing. In addition, UNLV Opera's production of Suor Angelica/Sancta Susanna was selected as one of six semi-finalists for The American Prize in Opera Performance (university division). Winners were to be announced in July.

Berenice Chavez (Film) won two Pacific Southwest Student Emmy Awards in June. The awards were presented during a ceremony in San Diego. Her film, North to Paradise,won in the category of long-form documentary, while her film, Passing the Torch,won in the craft of editing category. Both projects were created in UNLV's film program. She has been…

Anthony LaBounty (Music) was honored by election to membership in the American Bandmasters Association (ABA). In its 85-year history, the American Bandmasters Association has elected fewer than 500 total members, and currently has fewer than 300 conductors and composers on its roll. Candidates are rigorously screened via the adjudication of…

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…

Joshua Vermillion (Architecture) just signed a book deal with Routledge. The book, co-written with Jason Johnson, is titled Digital Design Exercises for Architecture Students. It is due to be released in November 2015.

Berenice Chavez (Film) was nominated for three Pacific Southwest Emmy Awards in the student category for her short documentaries, Passing the Torch and North to Paradise, which were made in the Documentary Techniques class at UNLV. Two nominations are for producing and one is for editing. She will be attending the awards ceremony this month in San…

Stephen Caplan (Music) is the author of The Breathing Book for Oboe. Published by Mountain Peak Music, it has received endorsements from some of the world's leading oboe players, described as a "must-read for oboists of all levels."

UNLV Latin Jazz Ensemble and UNLV Jazz Ensemble I (both Music) won awards at the 2014 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival in California in March. The Latin Jazz Ensemble, directed by Uli Geissendoerfer, won second place in the Open Combo Division and Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Dave Loeb , garnered a third place award in the College Big Band…

Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez (Architecture) has been invited as an expert speaker to address two workshops in China. The first, organized by China's National Energy Administration and funded by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat, is titled "Low Carbon Model Town Development Index System." The second workshop, "New Skins of Green…

David Schmoeller (Film) is a writer-director who was the guest speaker at the art house Music Box Theater in Chicago in October where his feature film Crawlspace (1986) and his short film documentary Please Kill Mr. Kinski (1999) were screened. Both films star Klaus Kinski. He also is the writer-director of Little Monsters (2012).

Randall Stout (Architecture) was featured along with other established and emerging architects, including Frank Gehry, Franklin D. Israel, Thom Mayne, Michael Rotondi, and Eric Owen Moss in The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA) exhibit A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California. The exhibit, which was…