Janis McKay (Music) will be a guest artist for the Bowling Green State University Double Reed Day. She will perform a recital, judge a competition, and present several masterclasses to students on the high school and college levels. The workshop takes place this month in Bowling Green, Ohio, and will involve students in the Ohio region. The other…

Iman Ansari (Architecture) is featured in the latest issue of Memari Ma journal. The Winter 2019 issue includes an interview with Iman Ansari on architectural education and pedagogy, with an image of ZERO.GRAVITY featured on the cover. Ansari's ZERO.GRAVITY, a project done for NASA JPL, was also exhibited at UNLV campus…

Shawna Pennock (Music) gave a lecture recital ("Riparian" by Kathryn Koopman: Duet for alto saxophone and violin pedagogically created to help young saxophonists learn to play the altissimo register) at two music conferences this month: the Southern College Music Society Conference at the University of Central Florida in Orlando and the Music…

Jared Turcotte (Art) is representing the UNLV Ice Hockey Club Team on the USA Team at the 2019 World University Games now taking place in Kasnoyarsk, Russia. Turcotte is one of only three freshmen — and one of only 22 collegiate athletes total — to be picked for the USA Team at the World University Games. He is in his second…

Linda Lister (Music) is co-author of So You Want to Sing Music by Women: A Guide for Performers. Part of the So You Want to Sing series published by Rowman and Littlefield and the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the book will be officially released on March 15. 

Dallas Leong (Accounting), Emi Leong (Entertainment Engineering and Design), and Matthew Dobbs (Journalism and Media Studies) will be traveling to Dallas this week with the UNLV Bowling Club for the sectional bowling competition. Dallas Leong, a senior, now is ranked #2 in the nation by the United States Bowling Congress. Emi Leong, a junior, is…

Alfonse Anderson (Music) was the first recipient of the Dr. Bert Babero Sr. Faculty/Staff Award, which was given out at the first Inaugural Black Carpet, the main event for Black History Month. This event was hosted by Student Diversity and Social Justice to celebrate Black Excellence, Black Love, and Black Joy. Babero, an…

Marcus Civin (Art), Pete Reyes (Academic Resources), Clarence Gilyard (Film), and Nevada Conservatory Theatre (Theatre) all were recognized by Desert Companion/NPR in their "Best of the City 2019" issue in February. All were included in the Arts + Entertainment section. Civin was selected as "Best Figure in Local Culture," while Reyes was selected…

Richard Miller (Music) has published a new peer-reviewed article, "Capturing Sound or History? Understanding the 1928 Minzoku GeijutsuTranscription Debate" in the Asian Music, flagship journal of the Society for Asian Music. Using materials collected while a Fellow at the National Ethnology Museum in Osaka, Miller reports on a…

Alberto de Salvatierra (Architecture), working in conjunction with undergraduate students David Douglas (Landscape Architecture), Carley Pasqualotto (Architecture), and Kyle Saca (Architecture), was selected as a finalist in the 8th Non Architecture Competition: Learning. Their design, "UniverCITY," which called for the redensification of UNLV's…

Numerous UNLV Students won awards at the Media Innovation Hackathon sponsored by the Beasley Media Group in collaboration with UNLV at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month. Student teams aimed to generate potential commercial products. Winners include: First Place: Converting Radio Waves to Energy. Matias Allieti (Mechanical…

Jennifer Bellor, Cynthia Wong, and Linda Lister (all Music) presented a joint plenary session this month at the 2019 national conference of the National Opera Association in Salt Lake City. They shared their original operatic works in the session “Breaking Boundaries in Opera: New Approaches to the Stage by Female Composers.”