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Ross Bryant (Veteran Services), Tracy Johnson (Wilson Advising Center), and Allison McSwain (Admissions) made presentations at the 2014 NSHE Southern Nevada Diversity Summit. Bryant and Johnson presented "Keys to Veteran Success and Retention: A 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Model." The office of veteran services and the Student Veterans & Military Family Services…

Maurice Finocchiaro (Philosophy) has just published his fourteenth book, The Trial of Galileo: Essential Documents (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2014). It is a collection of the most important writings leading to the 1633 Inquisition's condemnation of Galileo, who was suspected of heresy for defending Copernicus's…

Joanne Goodwin (History and Women's Research Institute of Nevada) is the author of Changing the Game: Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990, which was released by the University of Nevada Press on Sept. 8. The book captures the shifting boundaries of women's employment in the postwar decades with narratives drawn from the Las Vegas Women Oral…

Olivia Clare (Black Mountain Institute) has received a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. The awards are given annually to six women who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their writing careers. Each recipient is awarded $30,000. The Rona Jaffe awards program is the only national literary awards program of its kind…

Rebecca Gill and Kenneth Retzl (both Political Science) had a full-length research article, "The JPE Commission," published in the July/August issue of Judicature.The article argues that performance evaluation commissions may be relying too heavily on attorney surveys when they allocate negative judicial retention recommendations. Gill was the…

Maurice Finocchiaro (Philosophy) delivered a public lecture, "Galileo: Science, Religion, and Philosophy," at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London on July 8. This was part of a year-long series of lectures on "People Who Changed the World," which also includes lectures on Jesus, St. Paul, Luther, Muhammad, Socrates, Shakespeare, Isaac Newton,…

Kendra Gage (History) will receive a scholarship from the Southwest Region of the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA) this month during a ceremony at the history department. Gage, a doctoral student studying American history, has written "The Mothers of the Civil Rights Movement in California's Delta, 1940-1988." It…

Lorena Pike (World Languages and Cultures) presented two workshops, "Spanish Translation of Business Contracts" and "Adoption & Foster Care: A Vocabulary Workshop," during the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators annual conference in Las Vegas in May. She also held duties at the conference as a member of the…

Sue Fawn Chung (History) has been invited to speak at the Sun Yatsen University Conference on Chinese Workers in Guangzhou (Canton), China, in September; to the Stanford University Conference on Chinese Railroad Workers in October; and to the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, in November.

Tracy Johnson (Liberal Arts), Janet Hollinger (Academic Affairs), Eric Lee (Academic Affairs), and Cheyenne Rogers (Education) received four of the nine Region 9 Academic Advising Awards given at the annual NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) Region 9 conference held at the University of California, Berkeley. Johnson received the…

Tracy Johnson (Liberal Arts), Valarie Burke (Vice Provost Academic Affairs), Stacy Shapin (Fine Arts), Kristie Berthelotte (Fine Arts), Heather Hatch (Academic Success Center), Chris Parker (Engineering), Sal Mora (Academic Success Center), David Belt (Sciences), and Michael Biesiada (Business) made presentations at the annual NACADA (National…

Maurice Finocchiaro (Philosophy) will give a talk, "The Galileo Affair: Facts and Issues, Then and Now," at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 6. Finocchiaro, MIT '64, will participate in the "Class Speaker Program," which is part of the 50th reunion of the MIT class of 1964.