Claudia Chiang-Lopez, Amber Stephens, and Nicholas Lepp (all Communication Studies) received awards at the department's end-of-year ceremony celebrating student accomplishments. Chiang-Lopez was awarded the Graduate Outstanding Teaching Award for her research, service ,and teaching work in COM 101 and 102. Stephens and Lepp received …

Nicole Espinosa (Interdisciplinary, Ethnic, and Gender Studies), Amber Williams (Psychology), and Erika Abad (Interdisciplinary, Ethnic, and Gender Studies) presented during ClexaCon's first Academic Lab earlier this month. Espinosa, a gender and sexuality studies student and 2017-18 McNair Scholar, and Williams, a master's student, presented…

Melissa Schofield and Muneeba Ahmed (both Life Sciences)  were recognized for their outstanding presentations at the 2019 AZ-NV American Society for Microbiology branch meeting. Schofield, a doctoral student in Boo Shan Tseng's lab, received the top prize for graduate student oral presentation. Ahmed, an undergraduate researcher in Brian…

Janine Barrett and Graduate Systems & Data Analyst  Payam Ezatpoor (Graduate College) presented at the Salesforce Higher Ed Summit on April 17. Their talk, titled Improving UNLV's Student and Faculty Engagement with a purpose-built platform, highlighted the Grad Rebel Gateway, a dynamic platform that drives student…

Naoka Foreman (Journalism and Media Studies) moderated a panel discussion hosted by the Black Graduate Student Association.  Monica Brown (Education), Sebern Coleman (Graduate College), and Kevin Wright (Student Diversity and Social Justice) served as panelists for this discussion.  The topic was "The Color of Academia: A Panel on…

Stephanie Molina, Eric Noonan, Mathew Varre, and Sidath Kapukotuwa have been elected to the 2019-20 Graduate & Professional Student Association Executive Board. Their positions are: President- Stephanie Molina Vice-President- Eric Noonan Secretary- Mathew Varre Treasurer- Sidath Kapukotuwa We would like to thank all of the candidates…

Katelyn DiBenedetto and Valarie Burke (both Graduate College) hosted a webinar earlier this month for Beyond the Professoriate's research and innovation series where they discussed the professional development opportunities offered by the UNLV Graduate College Professional Development Academy that are helping graduate students better prepare…

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…