Accomplishments: Women's Council
Norma A. Marrun (Teaching and Learning) and Marcela RodrÃguez-Campo (Nevada State College) have coauthored the article.
Jungsun "Sunny" Kim and Mehmet Erdem (both Hospitality) were two of 10 restaurant technology experts featured in HT Magazine's "2022 Restaurant Industry Outlook." The article explores hospitality technology trends — identifying what's working, what's not working, and the most promising trends for the future.
Chelsea Heinbach (Libraries) is the recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Library Faculty Scholarship Award. Heinbach was nominated for her outstanding and significant scholarly efforts in 2021 that will have a long and lasting impact on the field of librarianship. In 2021, she co-authored a book, co-authored two book chapters, gave a…
Congratulations to the recipients of these 2022 ºÚÁÏÍø teaching awards:
Outstanding Teaching by Part-Time Faculty Award
Xiaoling Hays - Chinese/World Languages and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts
Elizabeth "Hope" Hinchman - School of Nursing
Yousif Muradian - Finance, Lee School of Business
Hiroko Tadano - Japanese/World Languages and…
Amanda Melilli (Libraries) is the 2022 recipient of the Outstanding Library Faculty Service Award. Melilli was nominated for her remarkable dedication and leadership across her service commitments within the University Libraries and nationally at the American Library Association. During the award period, she served as the Libraries' deputy faculty…
Yaa Obeng (Nursing) was elected as a member of the ºÚÁÏÍø chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society.
Tiange Xu (Hospitality), Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute), and Shane Kraus (Psychology) presented a poster, "Problem Gambling and Mental Health Disorders among Undergraduate Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic", at the 2022 New Horizons In Responsible Gambling Conference.
Doris Morgan Rueda (History) accepted a postdoctoral fellow position at the Center for Law & History at Stanford Law School for 2022-24.
Asma Tahir (Environmental & Occupational Health) presented a poster on "Comparison of the Airborne Fungal Spore Concentrations in the Mojave Desert and Las Vegas 2016-2020" at the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology annual meeting in Phoenix last month.
The poster also has been published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical…
Tiffiany Howard (Political Science), Brach Poston (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and April Lopez (University of Texas, Austin) recently published the paper, "Extremist Radicalization in the Virtual Era: Analyzing the Neurocognitive Process of Online Radicalization." Their article appears in the latest issue of the journal, Studies in…
Amanda Belarmino (Hospitality) is coauthor of an article, "Risk Mitigation through Source Credibility in Online Travel Communities," which has been published in the hospitality research journal, Anatolia. Using "uncertainty reduction theory" the researchers explore the impacts of risk perceptions in online travel communities on source…
Janice M. Pluth (Health Physics & Diagnostic Sciences) and Chad L. Cross (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), along with colleagues at UC Berkley, recently published the article "Cellular DNA Effects of Radiation and Cancer Risk Assessment in Cells with Mitochondrial Defects" in the Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences. The…