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51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Jazz Studies (Music) saw its performing groups invited to compete at the 58th annual Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival -- the sixth consecutive year that 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ groups have received an invitation. The festival, which draws top student musicians from around the world, will take place this month in Monterey, Calif. 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ's students will…

Andrew Murtishaw (Psychology) received a travel award given by the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS) to present his research at the IBNS 24th annual meeting, which will take place in Victoria, Canada, in June. Murtishaw, who works in professor Jefferson Kinney's Neuroscience Laboratory, researches several risk factors of…

Darcy Del Bosque and Susie Skarl (Libraries) are co-authors (with Sam Leif) of the article, "Libraries Atwitter: Trends in Academic Library Tweeting," which appeared in Reference Services Review. The article won two awards, the Highly Commended Award from the Literati Network Awards for Excellence, and the Reference Research Review Award from the…

Jefferson Kinney, Chelcie Heaney, Monica Bolton, and Andrew Murtishaw (Psychology) served as organizers and judges for the Nevada Brain Bee, a competition for high school students that took place in January. The winner was Liliveth Nunez from East Career and Technical Academy. She will be traveling to Maryland to represent Nevada in the National…

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Libraries recently received a $100,000 grant through the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Library Services and Technology Act to fund the first year of a three-year Southern Nevada Jewish Community Digital Heritage Project. This comprehensive project, which launched in August 2014, will document the history of Las Vegas through the…

David Schwartz (Center for Gaming Research) made numerous presentations in 2014, including "Getting the Mob Out: How Changes in Nevada Law Helped Push Organized Crime Out of Nevada Gaming," sponsored by the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Gaming Law Society and Criminal Law Society; "Today's Gaming Trends," held at the Bob Maheu First Wednesday Lunch at the Las Vegas…

Ryan Larsen (International Programs) was given the Outstanding Service in International Education Award for his dedication to study abroad by NAFSA: Association of International Educators at the Region XII annual conference in November.

Andrew Murtishaw (Psychology) recently won first place in a graduate student research competition sponsored by the Southern Nevada section of the American Chemical Society for his research titled, "Chronic LPS-induced Inflammatory Response in a Diabetic Model of Alzheimer's Disease." His research in the Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory of…

Monica Bolton, Chelcie Heaney, Andrew Murtishaw, and Jefferson Kinney (all Psychology) recently published the article, "Postnatal Alterations in GABAB Receptor Tone Produce Sensorimotor Gating and Protein Level Differences in Adulthood." Bolton works in the Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory of professor Kinney and this is her second manuscript…