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Rachel Anderson (Law) received a certificate of appreciation from the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada in March for "Elevating the Conversation on Issues of Racial Equity and Social Justice."

Jeffrey Stempel and Thomas Main (Law) are two of the organizers of a civil procedure symposium, "Through a Glass Starkly: Civil Procedure Reassessed," which 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ is co-hosting this month in Boston. Both men also will present papers. All papers presented at the symposium will be printed in the Nevada Law Journal.

Rebecca Scharf (Law) recently was elected to the national Board of Directors for the Legal Writing Institute, a nonprofit focused on improving legal writing by creating a forum for scholarship and discussion on legal writing, analysis, and research. The institute has 2,800 members. A total of 32 candidates ran for the eight positions on the board…

Stacey Tovino (Law) will give a one-hour talk at the 8th annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling this month at Harrah's in Reno. Her talk will address health insurance coverage of gambling disorders after the Affordable Care Act. In February, she gave the Distinguished Health Law Lecture at Saint Louis University School of Law's Center…

Jennifer Carr (Law) will speak on March 6 at the second annual Southwestern Consortium of Academic Support Professionals Workshop. The workshop will take place at St. Mary's School of Law in San Antonio. She will discuss assessing and expanding law school academic support programs to find and fill areas of need to ensure student success.

Stacey Tovino (Law) gave a talk at the Gaming Law Minefield National Institute at the Green Valley Ranch Resort in February. Her talk addressed health insurance coverage of gambling disorders in light of the Affordable Care Act and the American Psychiatric Association's new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,…

Frank Cucinotta (Health Physics & Diagnostic Sciences) has had his work published in multiple journals. He co-authored "The Hohmann-Parker Effect Measured by the Mars Science Laboratory on the Transfer from Earth to Mars: Consequences and Opportunities," which reports a new effect describing the solar magnetic field lines at spacecraft as they…

Amy Bouchard (Alumni) was recognized by CASE District VII Awards of Excellence with a silver award in the category of Alumni Relations Programs - Marketing & Branding for work she did on the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Alumni Association's 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏIP membership program.

Jean Sternlight (Law) made a presentation on "Disarming Employees? Examining Case Outcomes and Legal Representation in Employment Arbitration" at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in February. The talk was part of a symposium on forced arbitration in the workplace.