Vaune Kadlubek (Health Sciences) and four of her fellow Santa Barbara High School alumni received the school’s Wall of Fame award during the 16thannual induction ceremony in March. Kadlubek’s award recognizes her place on the U.S. women’s national water polo team, becoming the team’s coach; her staff position on the 1984 and 1996 Olympic water…

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…

Daniel Young (Physical Therapy) co-authored “A prevention initiative to decrease HAPUs at two acute care hospitals,” which describes the implementation of a comprehensive pressure ulcer prevention program and its effects at two sister hospitals in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The article appeared in the November issue of Nursing Management.

School of Nursing earned a 10-year accreditation for its bachelor's and master's programs from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). The school voluntarily seeks accreditation and participates in the self-assessment and evaluation processes. It has maintained accreditation since the 1970s, specifically from CCNE since 2008.

Jessica Doolen, Michelle Giddings, and Michael Johnson (all Nursing), along with Gigi Guizado de Nathan and Lysander Abadia of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, authored "An Evaluation of Mental Health Simulation with Standardized Patients." The article, which appeared in the March issue of the International Journal of Nursing Education…

Maulah Adanri and Paul Smith (Nursing) have been selected as Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholars by the School of Nursing. Each of these doctoral students will receive $20,000 for their nursing studies during the next two years, making them part of a national effort to combat the nursing faculty shortage and prepare future nurses as America's healthcare…

Alona Angosta, Jennifer Kawi, and Bruce Leonard (all Nursing) have been selected to the Summer Genetics Institute, which is a tuition-free, one-month intensive research training program at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. The program, sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research, seeks to increase the research…

Dennis Bazylinski (Life Sciences ) and Mark Buttner (Community Health Sciences) received a 14-month, $106,098 award from the Clark County School District to establish an airborne pollen monitoring program in Las Vegas.

Rhigel "Jay" Tan (Nursing) received Nevada Business magazine's "Educator Healthcare Hero" award during the eighth annual Healthcare Heroes ceremony in September. The publication created the award to recognize outstanding health care professionals in both Northern and Southern Nevada. A diverse panel of health care professionals chose 10 honorees…

Vanessa Gepielago (Nursing) received the Lillian Wald Community Nursing Award for her efforts to encourage a change in Nevada law regarding sexual education. She encouraged the review and passage of a bill that would modernize the current curriculum, which she believes would help reduce the state's rising teen pregnancy rate. The award is named in…

Barbara St. Pierre Schneider (Nursing) had her work published in the August issue of Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, which is the official journal of the Aerospace Medical Association. The article, "Simulated Flight, Muscle Genetics, and Inflammatory Indicators in Mice," describes her research testing the effects of short-term…

Mark Buttner and Patricia Cruz (Community Health Sciences) received a $1.1 million, 16-month award from the Nevada department of health and human services to conduct environmental monitoring.