Kara Radzak, Michelle Samuel, Courtney Alley, and Chris Blonk, all of the athletic training program (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) along with alumnae Chloe Kipnis, '16 MS Kinesiology, attended the 2017 Far West Athletic Trainers Association (FWATA) meeting, during which Radzak, Samuel, and Blonk served as instructors for a laboratory session…

Breanna Boppre (Criminal Justice) has been awarded the President's UNLV Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for the 2017-18 academic year. Her doctoral dissertation research focuses on understanding the pathways of justice-involved women of color, and their criminogenic needs and strengths. Boppre and her work were the subject of an…

Larissa Terán (Communication Studies), Jonathan Birds, Anna Caputo, Rich Easter, Rosa Rosas, and Mark Sakurada (all Public Policy and Leadership) received honors at the 8th annual Greenspun College of Urban Affairs' (GCUA) Graduate Research Symposium in April. The symposium offers graduate students in GCUA the opportunity to present their…

Carolee Dodge Francis (Environmental and Occupational Health) and M. Crystal Lee (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) made a presentation at the 16th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations this month. The presentation, “The Impact of National and International Policies on Indigenous Health and Well-…

Michael Spicer (Music) won a prestigious 2017 DownBeat Magazine Student Music Award for outstanding performance in the Graduate College Jazz Composition Category.

Tyler Stalbaum (Mechanical Engineering) was awarded the 2017 Graduate Regents' Scholar Award for UNLV at the UNLV Academic Achievement Award Ceremony April 19. The award is based on distinguished academic accomplishments, leadership ability, and service contributions as a registered NSHE student, as well as on the recipient’s potential for…

Kate Hausbeck Korgan (Graduate College) recently was named president of the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS). Her position became effective during the 2017 WAGS annual conference, held earlier this month in Seattle. WAGS — comprised of more than 90 institutions in the western United States, Canada, and Mexico — links member…

Jacqueline Phan and her mentor, Ernesto Abel-Santos (both Chemistry and Biochemistry), placed second and won the People's Choice Award in the three-minute thesis (3MT) competition at the Western Association of Graduate School's (WAGS) 2017 conference, earlier this month. In November, under professor Abel-Santos’ mentorship, Phan placed first…

Daniel Gerrity (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) and Duane Moser of the Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) submitted a winning proposal for the first year of the UNLV-DRI Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This award will allow the pair to recruit a postdoctoral fellow to…

Forty-five members of the campus community have been announced by the Graduate College as winners of the 2017-20 Top Tier Doctoral Graduate Research Assistant (TTDGRA) grant competition.  The approximate value of the program is $800,000 per year for three years, or approximately $2.4 million dollars. It is also worth noting…

Lori Fazzino (Sociology) authored a blog at Huffington Post titled "No Privilege? No Problem. Why You Can Be An Interfaith Ally."  

Cassandra Boyer, Jorge Adrian Castrejon, Jessica Nave-Blodgett, Andrew Ortiz, and Karl Wennerlind have been chosen to receive the fall 2016 Southwest Travel Awards. They were selected from among 150 student applicants. Recipients of the awards receive a round-trip travel voucher from Southwest Airlines to allow them to travel to a conference or…