UNLV's Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education project (TILT Higher Ed) (Provost's Office) is the focus of the current issue of the journal Peer Review, published by the Association of American Colleges & Universities. A research article by UNLV's Mary-Ann Winkelmes (Provost's Office), Matthew Bernacki (Educational Psychology…

Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Abbie Kirkendall (Social Work), and Catherine Dingley (Nursing) recently received the Tier 2 funding from the Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI) to continue their project “Engaging Patients with Life-Limiting Illnesses on Receiving Palliative Care“. They completed the project’s Tier…

The Sanford I. Berman Debate Forum (Urban Affairs) achieved two historic milestones for the program at two national championship tournaments. Debate members competed in the Cross Examination Debate Association-CEDA-National Championship and The National Debate Tournament (NDT). The team of Sara Beth Brooks and Roman Kezios were the…

Katherine Dockweiler, LeAnn Putney (both Educational Psychology and Higher Education), and Teresa Jordan (Environmental and Public Affairs) are the authors of the article “Enhancing the Policy Analysis Process: Case Studies Using the Layers of Analysis Framework," appearing in the Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research. The Layers of…

Nikki Davis (Journalism and Media Studies) was named one of the most promising multicultural students of 2016 by the American Advertising Federation (AAF). She was one of 50 students selected for the prestigious program’s 20th anniversary class. She was one of only three students from the western United States. In recognition of her achievement,…

Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) has done work that is the subject of an exhibit, "Julian Kilker, Aesthetic Evidence: Place, Context, and Process in the Southwest," sponsored by Nevada Humanities. Sponsored with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the exhibit is on view through Jan. 28 at the Nevada Humanities…

Professors Jay Shen (Community Health Sciences) and Abbie Kirkendall (Social Work) are conducting a project with nearly $15,000 funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to form a Palliative Care Research Network in Nevada through a variety of community engagement activities. The project will help…

An-Pyng Sun (Social Work) conducted field studies in Taiwan and mainland China. Based on the data collected, she was lead author for the article "Trauma and Chinese Heroin Users" in the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, and presented her work at the College of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, in April, and in…

Aaron Brown (Public Affairs and Academic Success Center) recently was recognized as an "emerging scholar" by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). In November, he will be co-presenting a paper with Jessica Word, (Environmental and Public Affairs) at the ARNOVA conference in Chicago. The paper…

Carrie Sampson (Environmental and Public Affairs) and Sonya Douglass Horsford, formerly of UNLV and now of George Mason University, co-authored a book chapter titled "Beyond Legal Remedies: Toward Funding Equity and Improved Educational Opportunities for English Language Learners" in Law & Education Inequality: Removing Barriers to…

Vicky Albert (Social Work) conducted a seminar at the London School of Economics in June. She presented some key findings from her project with the Brookings Institution on the Great Recession and some findings from her own recent research.

Donovan Conley (Communication Studies) and some colleagues from the University of Colorado, Denver, Stephen Hartnett, Lisa Keranen, and Patrick Dodge, gave research talks to graduate students working in the areas of communication and cultural studies at Shenzhen University, China earlier this month. His talk was titled "Objects in Mirror are…