View Accomplishments - April 2012
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Business
Bob Aalberts
Accounting
Is marking 20 years as editor of the prestigious Real Estate Law Journal. It is widely recognized as one of the top three journals in the area of real property law, according to the rankings of law reviews compiled by Washington and Lee University.
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Education
Larry Ashley
Educational & Clinical Studies
Will be awarded the Addictions/Offender Educator Excellence Award from the International Association of Addiction and Offender Counselors. The award acknowledges an individual who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to the field of addictions/offender issues through teaching. He also will be honored at the annual awards ceremony at the 2012 American Counseling Association Annual Convention in San Francisco.
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Theodore Ransaw
Teaching and Learning
Recently published “Ver y Ser Visto: To See and Be Seen: The Function of Culture and Myth in Latin Hip-Hop” in the peer-reviewed journal Words Beats & Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture.
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Engineering
Student Chapter of UNLV American Society of Civil Engineers
For the first time in its history won the right to compete in the national steel bridge building competition. The competition will take place at Clemson University in South Carolina. The UNLV team secured a place in the national competition by winning second place recently in the steel bridge building competition at the 2012 Pacific Southwest Regional Conference that took place at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. The UNLV students also won the quiz pong and concrete bowling events and took second place in the penny wars competition. UNLV’s team placed third overall in the regional competition that included 18 universities from Southern Nevada, Southern California, Arizona, and Hawaii.
Finance and Business
Jacob Kelli
Landscape and Grounds Services
Gained the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Certified Arborist Certification after meeting the experience, skill, and professional competency requirements and passing a comprehensive certification exam covering 10 areas of tree care. The ISA certification program promotes the professional development of those involved in the field of arboriculture and sets a standard of practice throughout the tree care industry. The certification is a commitment to professionalism that is renewed every three years by following a code of ethics and maintaining or updating knowledge through continuing education units. Kelli adds this latest qualification to his previous achievement of becoming a Western chapter ISA certified tree worker/climber.
Hotel
Ashok Singh
Coauthored a book on data mining, The Math That Gaming Made, which was published by Casino Services Publishing in 2011. His coauthors were Andrew Cardno and Ralph Thomas. He also was quoted in an article written by Michael Sokolove about the Foxwoods Resort Casino that appeared in the New York Times Magazine on March 14.
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Liberal Arts
Sue Fawn Chung
History
Served on a panel on Chinese American architects working in Mid-Century Modernism at the Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles earlier this month as part of an exhibit titled “Breaking Out: Chinese American Architects in Los Angeles,” which was based on an article she wrote for Preservation magazine last year.
Steve DeVito
English
Was one of three part-time instructors to receive an Outstanding Teaching by Part-Time Faculty Award for 2012.
Anthony Guy Patricia
English
Won first prize for presenting in the arts and humanities platform session A of the Graduate and Professional Student Research Forum on March 17. The presentation focused on work on Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s early 17th century city comedy, The Roaring Girl. It was done for the ”Is Shakespeare Our Only Contemporary?“ research seminar of the 40th annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, which took place in Boston over spring break.
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Urban Affairs
Markie Blumer
Marriage and Family Therapy
Received the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR), Family Therapy Section: Best Research New Professional Papers Award at the annual NCFR conference in Minneapolis in November. The award was for the work, “Reflections on Becoming Feminist Therapists: Honoring Our Feminist Mentors” that appeared in the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy. The work was done in conjunction with Mary Green, Desiree Compton, and Ashley Barrera.
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“Reflections on Becoming Feminist Therapists: Honoring Our Feminist Mentors”
