Donica' Beckett (Environmental and Occupational Health); Philip Danquah, Johanna Andrews, and Melva Thompson-Robinson (all Center for Health Disparities Research), and Carolee Dodge Francis (American Indian Research and Education Center) presented a scientific poster at the 2019 National HIV Prevention Conference titled "Investigating…

Katelyn DiBenedetto (Graduate College) presented at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators conference in Los Angeles earlier this month. Titled "Pillars of Graduate Student Success: Realigning Professional Development Opportunities to Meet the 21st Century Needs of Graduate Students," the presentation focused on how the…

Valarie Burke, Katelyn DiBenedetto, Kate Korgan, Emily Lin, and Kara Wada (all Graduate College) attended the Western Association of Graduate Schools 61st annual Conference in Tucson, Arizona, last month. They conducted three presentations: Lin and Korgan presented "Exploring the Use of Students’ Annual Evaluation Surveys to Align with a…

Chyna Miller (Mathematics Learning Center) and Matthew Bernacki, formerly of UNLV and now with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recently had a paper published for a special issue on self-regulated learning (SRL) in the Journal of High Ability Studies. In the article titled, "Training Preparatory Mathematics Students to be High…

Matthew S. Dentice (English) has been awarded the 2019 Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP) Founders' Prize for his paper, “Monarch of the Past and of the Future: Joachim of Fiore, the Last Emperor, and the Myth of King Arthur’s Return.” The prize recognizes an outstanding scholarly paper fashioned from a presentation given at the previous…

Graduate College Dean Kate Hausbeck Korgan on Jan. 29 presented a webinar, titled "A Graduate School’s Phased Approach to CRM Starts with Admissions," for the Council of Graduate Schools. In 2015, the Graduate College’s Systems & Data and Admissions teams deployed Salesforce’s CRM platform and Enrollment Rx to implement Phase I of the…

Jay Nietling (Physics and Astronomy), Katelyn DiBenedetto (Graduate College), Anabel Chavva (Service Learning & Leadership), Sara Tajalli (Writing Center), Shanna Kinzel (Student Union & Event Services), and Jill Zimbelman (Research and Economic Development) are this year's recipients of the Professional Development Awards. These $500…

Cindy X. Kha (Life Sciences) was a recipient of two Awards of Excellence at the American Association for the Advancement of Science 99th annual meeting of the Pacific Division. A graduate student in the laboratory of Kelly Ai-Sun Tseng (Life Sciences), Kha presented her research, “Apoptosis is Required for Developmental Eye Regrowth in…

Kate Korgan, Emily Lin, Valarie Burke, and Katelyn DiBenedetto (all Graduate College) will conduct research involving current and past UNLV Ph.D. students as the result of a $50,000 grant awarded to the Graduate College by the Council of Graduate Schools. They will be participating in the Understanding Ph.D. Career Pathways for Program…

Kate Korgan (Graduate College) recently was elected to the governing board for the Law and Society Association’s sex, work, law, and society collaborative research network (CRN). This CRN seeks to bring together international socio-legal scholars and experts to broaden the conversation about sex work regulation, legal and labor issues, and social…

Several members of the Graduate College presented at the Enrollment Rx 2018 Conference, hosted by the Graduate College at UNLV May 16-18. Enrollment Rx is a higher education technology company that provides innovative constituent relationship management solutions.   Dean Kate Korgan was a keynote speaker and spoke about …

Philip Danquah (Environmental and Occupational Health) is this year's recipient of the prestigious Michelle Chino Dissertation Scholarship awarded by the School of Community Health Sciences. The award was presented at the school's honors recognition reception in April. He also works as a graduate assistant in the registrar's office.  …