Accomplishments: Women's Council
Rebecca Gill (Political Science and WRIN) and co-author Valerie Sulfaro (James Madison University) published the article "Title IX: Help or Hindrance?" in the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy in its special issue on the #MeTooPoliSci movement. In the article, the authors provide practical guidance for those who have experienced…
Rachell A. Ekroos (Nursing) provided a three-hour workshop during the U.S. Army’s Sexual Assault Response Prevention (SHARP) Victim Advocate Training at the George W. Dunaway U.S. Army Reserve Center. The workshop addressed several significant topics including clinical sexual assault examination practices, multidisciplinary responses to sexual…
Deanna Cooper (Educational Psychology & Higher Education ) was selected to attend the American Enterprise Institute's (AEI) Education Policy Academy. This exclusive summer institute brings talented graduate students to Washington, D.C. for an intensive week-long exploration of how the worlds of education research, policy, and advocacy…
Sara A. Shaw (Teaching & Learning) was named one of NC State University's sixteen Career & Technical Education (CTE) Research Fellows. The program, sponsored by the ECMC Foundation, provides Fellows with research training, dissemination support, policy education, and professional mentoring opportunities in order to improve student learning…
Sam Gilpin, Carly Hunter, Jenessa Kenway, and Alexander Valle (all English) each presented a paper at the 2nd annual Graduate Student Conference hosted by the UNLV department of world languages and cultures and sponsored by the Organization of Vistas of Hispanic Studies with support from UNLV English's world literature program. The conference…
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) gave the keynote talk at the annual business meeting of the Cervantes Society of America, held during the Renaissance Society of America conference in Toronto, Canada, earlier this month. Her talk was titled "Cervantes' Narrative Rhetoric: Hearing and Verisimilitude."
Angela Amar (Nursing) was appointed to the Masters Essential Revision Task Force for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The committee leads the revisions to this important document that guides graduate nursing education and accreditation.
Katelyn DiBenedetto (Graduate College) presented at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators conference in Los Angeles earlier this month. Titled "Pillars of Graduate Student Success: Realigning Professional Development Opportunities to Meet the 21st Century Needs of Graduate Students," the presentation focused on how the…
Patricia Heisser Metoyer (Psychology and Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) is the author of “ Mixedness” and “Ancestral Race Trauma”: The Monster Has No Name, which is a selected publication in the Journal of Intercultural Disciplines and in the Journal of Science and Exploratory Studies. Both journals publish scholarly contributions…
Jennifer Rennels (Psychology) gave a presentation for the Southern Nevada Society for Human Resource Management earlier this month on implicit and explicit biases, how those impact individuals in the workplace, and what can be done to decrease negative outcomes of bias.
Szu-Ping Lee and Carrie Gillis (both Physical Therapy), along with Javier Ibarra, Derek Oldroyd and Ryan Zane (all '16 Doctor of Physical Therapy), co-authored “Heel-Raised Foot Posture and Weightlifting Shoes Do Not Affect Trunk and Lower Extremity Biomechanics during a Barbell Back Squat in Recreational Weight Lifters,” which appears…
Tiffiany Howard (Political Science) is the author of the refereed policy report "Crowdfunding, Cryptocurrency, and Capital: Alternative Sources of Business Capital for Black Entrepreneurs." She is the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Senior Research Fellow for the Center for Policy Analysis and Research at the Congressional Black…