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Nancy Lough — Department of Sports Education Leadership Sports Education Leadership
Named editor of Sports Marketing Quarterly
Robert Ackerman — Department of Educational Leadership Educational Leadership
Co-edited Creating a Veteran-Friendly Campus: Strategies for Transition and Success. His co-editor, David DiRamio, is a graduate of UNLV's doctoral program in higher education leadership and now is a faculty member at Auburn University.
Dave Loeb — Department of Music Music
Served as guest conductor of the Long Beach Symphony last year. The program included the 3rd movement of Rachmanioff's Second Piano Concerto, played by UNLV jazz studies student and Liberace scholarship recipient Otto Ehling. Loeb also conducted his arrangement of "Climb Every Mountain" for vocalist Nita Whitaker.
Glenn Casale — Department of Theatre Theatre
Received the Regents' Creative Activity Award last year. The award, which was established in 1993, recognizes significant accomplishments that bring recognition as well as national and international stature to the Nevada System of Higher Education. The recipient receives a $5,000 stipend and a medal.
Louis Kavouras — College of Fine Arts Fine Arts
Wrote the book The Aesthetics of Dance, which has been accepted for publication by Human Kinetic Books. It is an aesthetic/philosophical investigation for how to look at a dance work and understand it as a work of art.
Timothy Erwin — Department of English English
Has given talks at several recent gatherings, including:
- "Reading for the Picture" at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, Calif.
- "Jane Austen's Imagery" to the American Association of University Women in Henderson.
- "Richard Savage, Sir John Hawkins, and the Profession of Authorship" at Emory University's Woodruff Library in Atlanta.
His "Seeing and Being Seen in Northanger Abbey" will appear in Women of Fashion, a collection of essays that will be published by the University of Toronto Press.
Todd Jones — Department of Philosophy Philosophy
Wrote an article, "Norms and Customs: Causally Important of Causally Impotent?" It appeared in Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Susan Meacham — School of Life Sciences Life Sciences
Was an invited speaker at the IV International Boron Symposium in Eskisehir, Turkey in October. Her presentation, "What Do We Know about Boron in Human Health?" addressed boron in diets and dietary supplements, international drinking water standards, healthful benefits of consumption in areas with naturally high concentrations, and the potential role of boron in cancer prevention and treatment.
David Kreamer — Department of Geoscience Geoscience
Testified before Congress last year concerning House Resolution 644, Grand Canyon Watersheds Protection Act of 2009. He discussed the potential negative impacts of uranium mining near the Grand Canyon. In 1995, he and his UNLV research group were the first to discover elevated uranium concentrations above U.S. Environmental Protection Agency limits in Grand Canyon springs below the site of Orphan Uranium Mine. Last year he also was appointed to the editorial board of the scholarly journal Water.
Hokwon Cho — Department of Mathematical Sciences Mathematical Sciences
Elected president of the Nevada chapter of the American Statistical Association. Also, he recently revised the book, Introduction to Regression Analysis. Additionally, he published two journal articles in the American Journal of Management and Mathematical Sciences. One article is titled "Statistical Identification in Multinomial Models with Sequential Sampling." The other is "Milton Sobel - A Precious Name Remains Everlasting in My Statistics Career."
Erika Engstrom — Department of Communication Studies Communication Studies
Joseph Valenzano — Department of Communication Studies Communication Studies
Co-authored "Demon Hunters and Hegemony: Portrayal of Religion on the CW's Supernatural," which was presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual convention in Boston. It was chosen as the top paper in the religion and media interest group.
Gerald Weeks — Hank Greenspun College of Urban Affairs Urban Affairs
Published his eighteenth and nineteenth professional books, Systemic Sex Therapy and A Clinician's Guide to Systemic Sex Therapy. The first was written with Katherine Hertlein (Marriage and Family Therapy) and Nancy Gambescia, while the latter was written with Hertlein and Shelley Sendak. Both were published by Routledge and are part of a series of texts solidifying a new paradigm for the field of sex therapy. The first book has been called the new "gold standard" for the field. The second was written specifically for beginning clinicians. Last year he also presented a weeklong workshop at the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy's Winter Institute in North Carolina.
Pamela Gallion — Canon Survey Center
Jacqueline Ragin — Gerontology Program
Presented a poster titled Portrait of Nevada Seniors, A Two-Year Study at the National Council on Aging, Aging in America Conference last year. More than 5,000 Nevadans over the age of 50 were surveyed by the Cannon Survey Center between 2006 and 2008 to develop a demographic picture of aging in Nevada.
Katherine Howard — School of Dental Medicine Dental Medicine
Karl Kingsley — School of Dental Medicine Dental Medicine
Wendy Woodall — School of Dental Medicine Dental Medicine
Wrote the article "An Integrated Curriculum: Evolution, Evaluation and Future Direction" that appeared in the Journal of Dental Education along with former dental school colleague Tanis Stewart.
Rainier Spencer — Department of Philosophy Philosophy
Wrote an essay, "Mixed-Race Chic," that was published last year in The Chronicle Review. Additionally, he presented a paper, "When Is a Mulatto Not a Mulatto?" at the annual meeting of the National Association for Ethnic Studies in San Diego.
Karl Kingsley — School of Dental Medicine Dental Medicine
Along with former dental school colleague Susan O'Malley, is senior authors of the article "Cranberry and Grape Seed Extracts Inhibit the Proliferative Phenotype of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinomas," which was published in the Oxford University Press peer-reviewed journal, Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Kingsley also was an invited speaker for the National Medical Association 2009 annual convention and scientific assembly. He presented a seminar, "Oral Cavity Cancer, African Americans and HPV Infection."
Larry Golding — Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences
Published a paper in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport titled "Regular Exercise and Plasma Lipid Levels Associated with the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: A 20-year Longitudinal Study. The co-author, Masa Teramoto, is a doctoral student in sport and education leadership.
Katherine Howard — School of Dental Medicine Dental Medicine
Authored the article "Differential Expression of Platelet-Activating Factor Acetylhydrolase in Lung Macrophages," which was published in the December issue of the American Journal of Physiology: Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
Aurore Giguet — Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies Environmental Studies
Co-edited the book Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-Scale Indices of Large-Scale Social Pheomena. Published by the University of Florida Press, it was selected as a Choice outstanding academic title. Choice is a list of publications reflecting the best in scholarly titles. Its editors base their selections on a number of criteria, including the reviewer's evaluation of the work, the editor's knowledge of the field, and the overall excellence in presentation and scholarship.
