Monserrath Hernández, Elsa Lopez, Nathalie Martinez, Rodrigo Vazquez, and Barbara Tabach (all Libraries) presented a roundtable, "Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada: Birth of an Oral History Project," at the 53rd annual Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. Latinx Voices of…
Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, "Dialectal Aspects of Medical Spanish," at the 76th annual conference of the South Central Modern Language Association.
Rachell Ekroos (Nursing) along with Patricia M. Speck (University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Nursing) presented "Title X Legislative & Regulatory Analysis Benefiting Children Affected by Sexual Exploitation" at the American Academy of Nursing's 2019 Transforming Health, Driving Policy…
Alicia Rico (World Languages and Cultures) recently published an article, “Apuntes gastronómico-sociales de El Chef ha muerto," in La nueva literatura hispánica (2019). In this article, she analyzes how the author, Yanet Acosta, uses gastronomy to make a critical comment…
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published a paper titled "A Defense of Free-Roaming Cats from a Hedonist Account of Feline Well-being" in Acta Analytica. This article presents and defends a novel account of feline well-being that challenges the standard belief that domestic cats ought to be permanently…
Pearl Kim, Betty Burston, Jay Shen (all Health Care Administration and Policy), Wenlian Zhou, Marcia Ditmyer (both Dental School), Shawn McCoy, and Ian McDonough (both Economics) recently published a paper, "Factors Associated with Preventable Emergency Department Visits for Nontraumatic…
Christina Miskey (Libraries) was a panelist on a panel titled "The Best Ways to Get Experience During Library School" along with Stacey Akahoshi (Santa Barbara Public Library), Danny Thien Le (Santa Clara City Library), Alexander Garcia (Ontario City Library), and Alice Erickson (San Mateo…
Karyn Holt (Nursing) and Elizabeth Barrie (Online Education) presented at the annual meeting of the Global Summit and EdTech Expo Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age North American conference in Toronto earlier this month. This international conference was…
Anjala Krishen (Marketing) and Robyn Raschke (Accounting) recently published "The Story Only Few Can Tell: Exploring the Disproportionately Gendered Professoriate in Business Schools" in Journal of Marketing Education. The study examined the relationship between perceived differences in…
Howard R. D. Gordon, Xue Xing, and Sara Shaw (all Teaching and Learning) authored an article in Workforce Education Forum titled "Analysis of Subject Matter Topics Presented at Career and Technical Education Research and Professional Development Conferences: 2009-2016." Subject matter topics…
June Cho (Nursing) received a pilot grant of $65,891 through the Mountain West CTR-IN (Clinical & Translational Research Infrastructure Network Program), funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Findings of her research project, titled “Health Disparities in Very-Low-…
Toni Repetti (Hospitality) recently received the Women in Lodging Member of the Year award from the Nevada Hotel & Lodging Association (NHLA). The award recognizes a member of the NHLA Women in Lodging (WIL) division who has contributed substantially to the growth, productivity, and…