William Bauer, Michael Green, Greg Hise, Andy Kirk, and Michelle Turk (all History); Karen Harry (Anthropology); and Su Kim Chung and Claytee White (both Libraries) recently spoke as part of "Hoover Dam and the Shaping of the American West," a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute…
Katherine Keller (Libraries) was a featured panelist discussing comic books during San Diego Comic-Con last week. "Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF): Comics - Start Here!" provided an overview of comic books in libraries with an emphasis on new research on cataloguing comics and tips for…
Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology) and colleagues published an article "Marital Happiness, Marital Status, Health, and Longevity" in Journal of Happiness Studies.
Dr. Karl Kingsley, Dr. Jason Klingler, and Ching Shen (all Dental) published the peer-reviewed manuscript "Prevalence of Aggregatibacter Actinomycetemcomitans and Fusobacterium Nucleatum among Clinical Orthodontic and Non-Orthodontic Saliva Samples" in the International Journal of Advances in…
Chelsea Heinbach (Libraries) recently presented at the Library Instruction West 2018 conference at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction. Her presentation was "Checklists Are Not Enough: Exploring Emotional Intelligence as Information Literacy."
Rebecca Gill (Women's Research Institute of Nevada and Political Science) and a team of political scientists from around the country, Nadia Brown (Purdue), Jennifer Merolla (University of California, Riverside), Melissa Michelson (Menlo College), Elizabeth Sharrow (University of Massachusetts…
Dr. Neamat Hassan Abubakr Hassan (Dental Medicine) co-authored and served as corresponding author for “Patient–dentist Relationship and Dental Anxiety among Young Sudanese Adult Patients,” which showed that relationships might be an important target for improving the delivery and standards of oral…
Fatemeh Azari (Mechanical Engineering) has been selected as the recipient of an American Society of Mechanical Engineers Engineering Scholarship. The competition for the scholarship is rigorous. Azari, a junior, previously has received 10 scholarships at the local, state, and national levels.
Arya Udry (Geoscience) and coauthors’ paper, “Formation of Evolved Rocks at Gale Crater by Crystal Fractionation and Implications for Mars Crustal Composition” recently was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets. This paper focuses on the formation of the rare Martian rocks…
John Novak and Annette Day (Libraries) recently had an article published in the New Review of Academic Librarianship. The article, "The IR Has Two Faces: Positioning Institutional Repositories for Success," describes University Libraries' ongoing efforts to evolve the role of the institutional…
Drs. Allison McNickle, Timothy Dickhudt, Jorge Vega, Paul Chestovich and Douglas Fraser (all Medicine) are the authors of "Emergent Chest Wall Reconstruction for an Incarcerated Pulmonary Hernia," which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. All…
Danica G. Hays (Education) and co-authors were awarded the Patricia B. Elmore Award for Outstanding Research by the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling for their publication, "Initial Development of the Teen Screen for Dating Violence: Exploratory Factor…