Alfonse Anderson (Music) was the first recipient of the Dr. Bert Babero Sr. Faculty/Staff Award, which was given out at the first Inaugural Black Carpet, the main event for Black History Month. This event was hosted by Student Diversity and Social Justice to celebrate Black Excellence, Black Love, and Black Joy. Babero, an…

The African Student Association was the first recipient of the Blackprint Award, which was given out at the first Inaugural Black Carpet, the main event for Black History Month. This event was hosted by Student Diversity and Social Justice to celebrate Black Excellence, Black Love, and Black Joy.  This award is designed to recognize a…

Kevin Wright (Student Diversity and Social Justice), Beth Gersten (Lee Business School), Emily Shreve (Academic Success Center), Rosan Mitola (Libraries), and Ross Bryant (Military and Veterans Services) presented at the 28th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience.  The topic was "The Color of Success: First-Year Experience…

Kevin Wright (Student Diversity and Social Justice) presented at the Second Annual Northern Arizona University Student Leadership Conference. The title of his workshop was "Who Do You Lead For?: Avoiding Burnout as an Over-Involved Student Leader."

Eli Williams (Service Learning and Leadership) and Kevin Wright (Student Diversity and Social Justice) recently presented a leadership lunch workshop on "Cultivating Hope and Resiliency" for Black History Month.

UNLVolunteers (Service Learning and Leadership) has been chosen by Friends of Nevada Wilderness (FONW) as its nonprofit partner of the year for 2018. Amber Sevart (Service Learning and Leadership) serves as the staff advisor for UNLV Volunteers, a student group, while Thuon Chen and Netta Ohayon are its student environmental impact coordinators.…

Caleen Johnson (Foundation) and Stine Odegard (Service Learning and Leadership) have been announced as members of the 2019 cohort of Jameson Fellows.  In 2013, Gard Jameson developed the program to create a culture of greater cohesion across nonprofit sectors. This program will enrich the work currently being done by…

Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) was interviewed for the podcast "Innovative Leaders Driving Thriving Organizations" at the International Leadership Association’s annual conference in October. The episode, “How Do Leadership and the Environment Connect,” explores how leadership theory and practice can benefit from framing …

Jean Nidetch Women's Center has been awarded a grant for $32,678 from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public & Behavioral Health, for rape prevention and education on campus.

Romeo Jackson (Student Diversity and Social Justice) received the Dr. Sheltreese D. McCoy Award for Outstanding Practice in Social Justice, for their significant commitments to social justice in both the field of student affairs as an academic discipline and through advanced practice in a professional capacity. They also recently presented a…

Romeo Jackson (Student Diversity and Social Justice) published a book chapter in the latest text in the Core Concepts in Higher Education series. The chapter is titled "Refuting Contemporaneity: Trans* Experiences In, Out, and Beyond Higher Education Children of the House of "Pay it No Mind" (A Collective of Trans* Scholars in Higher Education and…

Joshua Jensen (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently presented his thesis, "Delayed Lag Relationship Between Asthma Related In Patient Hospitalization and Air Pollution in the Las Vegas Valley," at the 2018 American Public Health Association annual meeting in San Diego under the supervision of Lung-Chang Chien (Environmental and…