Antonina Capurro (Dental) has been recognized by the American Dental Association as a recipients of its second annual 10 Under 10 awards, which recognizes 10 new dentists who demonstrate excellence early in their careers. The winners were chosen for making a difference in science, research and education; practice excellence; philanthropy;…

Janis McKay (Music) will be a guest artist for the Bowling Green State University Double Reed Day. She will perform a recital, judge a competition, and present several masterclasses to students on the high school and college levels. The workshop takes place this month in Bowling Green, Ohio, and will involve students in the Ohio region. The other…

Ashley Yuill (Nidetch Women's Center) presented a two-part webinar series, "Supporting Our Staff: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Supervision & Office Culture," for the Nevada Coalition to End Domestic & Sexual Violence.  The extent to which social service programs support their own staff directly influences the quality of services…

Ashley Schobert (Brookings Mountain West, Economics, and Political Science), a student of the Brookings public policy minor program, wrote an opinion editorial, "Single-payer Health Care is a Worthy Goal for the US — Eventually," which was published in the Las Vegas Sun. The piece offers a response to the March 7 campus event, "The Great…

Michelle Tusan (History) won the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies' biannual article prize for "Genocide, Famine and Refugees on Film: Humanitarianism and the First World War," which was published in the academic journal Past and Present.

Marina Georgieva (Libraries) presented a workshop, "Creating Websites and Leading Librarians to a New Level of Project Engagement," at the 2019 Electronic Resources & Libraries annual conference in Austin, Texas. 

Caitlin J. Saladino (Lincy Institute & Brookings Mountain West) recently was featured as a guest columnist in the Las Vegas Sun. The piece, "Public R1 Universities Undervalued as Elitists Clamber for Acceptance," highlights the value of schools like UNLV, in the wake of the college admissions scandal. The piece was…

Julia Freedman Silvernail, Lucas Dibenedetto and Kristyne Wiegand (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) co-authored “The Effect of Cold-Water Immersion on Running Mechanics,” which appears in the current issue of the International Journal of Exercise Science. The study examined the potential effects of cryotherapy on performance and injury risk…

Rebecca Gill (Political Science and WRIN) and co-author Valerie Sulfaro (James Madison University) published the article "Title IX: Help or Hindrance?" in the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy in its special issue on the #MeTooPoliSci movement. In the article, the authors provide practical guidance for those who have experienced…

Rachell A. Ekroos (Nursing) provided a three-hour workshop during the U.S. Army’s Sexual Assault Response Prevention (SHARP) Victim Advocate Training at the George W. Dunaway U.S. Army Reserve Center. The workshop addressed several significant topics including clinical sexual assault examination practices, multidisciplinary responses to sexual…

Sam Gilpin, Carly Hunter, Jenessa Kenway, and Alexander Valle (all English) each presented a paper at the 2nd annual Graduate Student Conference hosted by the UNLV department of world languages and cultures and sponsored by the Organization of Vistas of Hispanic Studies with support from UNLV English's world literature program. The conference…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) gave the keynote talk at the annual business meeting of the Cervantes Society of America, held during the Renaissance Society of America conference in Toronto, Canada, earlier this month. Her talk was titled "Cervantes' Narrative Rhetoric: Hearing and Verisimilitude."