Jessica Impallaria, M.Ed. '08 (Liberal Arts) received an Outstanding Service Award from CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Las Vegas and the Eighth Judicial District Court during the 10th annual volunteer appreciation luncheon held April 26, 2025. Jessica was recognized for her compassionate advocacy for children in foster care and the…
Professor Marketa Trimble (Law) delivered a presentation to the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, titled, "The Current Development of U.S. Copyright Law in Light of the Current Political Situation and of the Interests of Major Stakeholders."
Danesha Hunter (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave presentations at the American Water Resources Associate 2025 Spring Conference in Anchorage, AK titled, "Applying Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) to Characterize Trace Elements in Water Samples Around Lake Mead." Hunter is a graduate student in the environmental health…
Published: Lung-Chang Chien, Lung-Wen Antony Chen, Chad L. Cross, Edom Gelaw
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health), Lung-Chang Chien, Chad Cross, Edom Gelaw (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and colleagues published an article on "Towards optimization of community vulnerability indices for COVID-19 prevalence" in the journal BMC Public Health.
In this study the team established a practical approach to…
Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) co-authored a research article with faculty colleagues from three other universities titled, "Structure and Longitudinal Invariance of the Multicultural Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills Survey – Counselor Edition – Revised," published in the Journal of Measurement…
Notable: Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences
Members from the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences teamed up with Partnering 4 Health to share the imporance of joy and mindset to fourth graders at Paradise Elementary School. Faculty and students played with fourth graders and discussed the importance of physical and mental health.
Fourth graders had the opportunity to test out…
Courtney Cross (Law) presented on the panel “Transitioning from Fellow to Director: Maintaining the Crux of Your Training in the Face of Competing Demands” at the Association of American Law Schools’ 2025 Conference on Clinical Legal Education.
Eve Hanan (Law) served as a discussant and moderator for the “Works in Progress Group – Criminal Law: State Power and Conduct” at the Association of American Law Schools’ 2025 Conference on Clinical Legal Education.
Jeff Schauer (History) published "Empires and Environment: Africa's Colonial Wildlife Conservation Origins," an essay accompanying a Gale collection of primary sources, Environmental History: Colonial Policy and Global Development, 1896-1993.
The assistant director of the Sciences Advising Center wants everyone to know: There's so much more to being an advisor than telling students what classes to take.