Accomplishments: Women's Council

Aidy Weeks (Libraries) is the co-author of an article, "Shannon D. Jones, MLS, MED, AHIP, FMLA, Medical Library Association President, 2022-2023," published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association. Weeks is an assistant professor within UNLV Libraries and director of the School of Medicine Library serving the Kirk Kerkorian…
Heather Richardson, coordinator of UNLV's Fostering Scholars program, recently received the 2023 Community Engagement Faculty/Staff Outreach Award.   
Renata F. Guzzo (Hospitality) recently co-authored the article, “Taking a stand: Understanding the use of socially controversial CSR in hospitality recruitment,” in the International Journal of Hospitality Management. The study explored the relationship between socially controversial corporate social responsibility (CCSR) and organizational…
Jung-Hwa Kim (Architecture) has been offered a 2023-2024 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship by the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The fellowship will support her project, “The Design and Use of the Wanamaker’s Department Store Rooftop in Philadelphia, 1910 to the 1920s.”
Jennifer Vaughan (Fine Arts) was named "Executive of the Year" at the 32nd Annual Silver State Women's Awards on April 8 at a ceremony inside Resorts World, Las Vegas. Vaughan is the communications director for the College of Fine Arts.
Anna Horvath, Mayra Repetto, Melanie Shackleford, Andrea Thi, Rory Twells, Kavita Batra, Dale Netski, Nadia Gomez, and Leanne Free (all Medicine) presented a poster, "Analyzing the Quality and Reliability of Contraceptive Content on TikTok: A Feasibility Study," at the American Medical Women’s Association 108th annual meeting, held in…
UNLV Alumni Association's "DisruptHERs: How women are leading change in the sport industry” was presented by Nancy Lough (Education), director of the intercollegiate and Professional Sport Management program, and co-director of UNLV's Sport Innovation Initiative. Women’s sport is on the rise. Viewership, attendance, sponsorship investment,…
Katherine Gaddis (Anthropology) was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project titled, "An Examination of Aging and the Elderly in Bioarchaeological Contexts."
Vanessa Marie Booth (Political Science, The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West) has been selected to receive the Thomas J. Watson Leadership Scholarship, which funds graduate study at Brown University. Admitted to the accelerated MPA program, Booth will be one of few students who receives the Watson Scholarship to not only fund her graduate…
Jessica Grifaldo (Life Sciences), a first-generation Latina graduate student, was awarded a National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP). Grifaldo and her mentor Eduardo Robleto will study how bacterial cells control the expression of genes conferring the ability to swim, an adaptive behavior to escape environmental…
Xan Goodman (Libraries) has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the McPhee Librarian of the Year Award. Goodman was nominated for her dedication, research-informed, and community-responsive approaches to librarianship that make the UNLV Libraries a respected and valuable part of our university community, the Las Vegas community, and the broader…
Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental Medicine) presented two multi-institution collaborative sessions during the American Dental Education Association annual meeting last month. Her first presentation titled, "New Dental Specialties Are Possible: Oral Medicine, Orofacial Pain and Dental Anesthesiology," examined the results of a student and faculty survey…