Accomplishments: Greenspun College of Urban Affairs
The National Academy of Public Administration has announced 42 new inductions for the 2024 Class of Academy Fellows, including professor Edgar E. Ramirez de la Cruz (Public Policy and Leadership).
The National Academy of Public Administration is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, chartered by Congress in 1967 to provide expert advice to…
Brittani Sterling and Su Kim Chung (both Libraries) are the authors of a chapter, "We Need to Talk: Creating a University Library-Driven Series on the UNLV Campus to Address Systemic Racism" published in the book, Creating an Inclusive Library: Approaches for Increasing Engagement and Use with Students of Color. The chapter discusses how the…
An-Pyng Sun (Social Work), together with Tracy Liu and Avi Ramprashad (both from University of Maryland, School of Medicine), wrote an article, "Methamphetamine-Associated Psychosis: Its Nature and Management," which appeared in the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Specialty Practice Section 2024 Fall…
Craig Hennigan (Communication Studies), with collaborators Tiana Brownen (Simpson College), Shanna Carlson (Illinois State University), A.J. Edwards (Louisiana State University - Shreveport), Shiela Ritchie (Abilene Christian University), Philip Samuels (Wichita State University), Zachary Thornhill (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Baker Weilert…
Alexa Bejinariu (Criminal Justice) was selected as a Faculty Fellow with the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP) at Binghamton University for the 2024-25 academic year.
Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies) was awarded the Linda L. Putnam Early Career Scholar Award from the International Communication Association. This award recognizes the contributions of an early career scholar to organizational communication research. Specifically, this award honors a scholar no more than six years past receipt…
David R. Gruber (Communication Studies) published "A Forum on Neurorhetorics: Conscious of the Past, Mindful of the Future" as lead author in the journal Rhetoric Society Quarterly. The forum brings together multiple scholars to evaluate the past twelve years of research at the intersection of neuroscience and rhetorical studies, suggesting…
Laura V. Martinez (Communication Studies), Ph.D., authored the article, "That's what makes somebody circus": The collaborative process of transforming the meaning of pain through discourse in circus organizations," in Circus: Arts, Life, and Sciences. The article explores how aerial acrobats collaboratively transform the meaning of…
Assistant professor Laura V. Martinez' (Communication Studies) solo-authored autoethnographic piece, "Reclaiming the Body: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Organizational Identification, Concertive Control, and Deidentification Through Flight" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Autoethnography. This manuscript will appear in…
Deborah A. Kuhls, Bertille Mavegam Tango, Kavita Batra , Noehealani Antolin (all Medicine), along with Courtney Coughenour, Max Gakh, William Porter, Darin Mains, Kacie Washburn (all Public Health), and William Sousa (Urban Affairs), presented findings from the Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Project, resulting from SB 236 (…
The UNLV Rebels R.I.S.E. Program was selected as a recipient of the 2024 John N. Gardner Institutional Excellence for Students in Transition Award by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. This award recognizes institutions that have designed and implemented outstanding collaborative initiatives to…
Tara McManus, with co-authors and MA graduates Brooke Wolfe and Hannah Novak (all Communication Studies), published an article, “Memorable Messages about Pregnancy and Abortion from the Perspective of College-Enrolled Emerging Adults,” in the journal Health Communication. The study found that college students remember messages about pregnancy that…