Publications

Faculty Publications, Grants, & Awards

January 2025

Erica Tietjen (Biology) was invited to present a webinar to the Ecological Society of America on teaching ecological principles.
Rosemary Q. Flores (Teacher Academy Coordinator) applied for a $25,000 NV Career Pathways Demonstration Program grant to fund the creation of bilingual testimonial videos for TAPP recruiting.
Amber Howerton (Chemistry) submitted a request to renew our INBRE subaward for another. It would provide $594,000 to support undergraduate research and travel.

11/6/2024

Jennifer Edmonds (Biology), El Hachemi Bouali (Geosciences), and Aster Sigel (INBRE Director) were selected to participate in the by-invitation-only 2024 NSHE Mentoring Institute. The goal is to help faculty build capacity in STEM education and research.
Zarah Borines (Nursing) hosted an episode of the Wellness Waves program on PHLV Radio, a resource for the Las Vegas Filipino community. The episode focused on autism.
Elizabeth Gunn (LASB Dean) had two new poems, “Treatise on Solivagant” and “Histology,” as well as “Q&A with Poet Elizabeth S. Gunn” published in The Wild Umbrella, an Irish literary journal. A third poem, “September 14, 2014,” was published in Past Ten Magazine, and two additional poems, “Gowpen” and “Undertow,” were published in Merion West.

10/8/2024

Hon-Vu Q. Duong (Biology) and Nina Marcellus (Director of Simulation, School of Nursing) were accepted for publication by NISOD Innovation Abstracts. Their abstract, “A Recipe for a Successful Collaboration: Coming Together, Staying Together, Working Together,” speaks to the effectiveness of a unique approach to interdisciplinary collaboration in the classroom for 1st-semester BSN students.
Erica Tietjen (Biology) published “Four-Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) for Everyone: Teaching Ecology to Non-majors” in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Stefanie Coleman (VP of Student Affairs) received a $56,000 GEAR UP grant to support a college advisor to assist high school students with applying to college, as well as summer activities for incoming NS students from GEAR UP.
Kayla Bieser (Biology) applied for an IPERT subward with Jackson Labs. If funded, the $30,000 subaward would fund faculty training to help them incorporate data science topics into classes, as well as designing course content.
Elizabeth Gunn (LASB Dean) published several poems recently. “Cartography,” “Time-Lapse Photography,” and “Tuesday” appeared in The Brussels Review, while “Recitation” was published in the San Antonio Review.
NS is nominating three faculty for NSHE Awards: Erika Abad (Communication) for Creative Activities, Laura Naumann (Psychology) for Mid-career Researcher, and Nicholas Arnet (Chemistry) for Tenure-track Teaching. Best of luck in the NSHE-level competition to all three!
Chad Curtis (Data Science) co-authored an article, “Fostering Metacognition and Feedback Loops in a Summer Undergraduate Research Program: A Pilot Study,” with a student. It was published in Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research Journal.
Nicholas Carroll (Spanish) applied for an NEH Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education grant. It would fund planning for an interdisciplinary open educational resource for integrating Spanish into career-oriented fields such as nursing, education, and business.

9/2/2024

Youngae Choi (Early Childhood Education) learned that Clark County funded her $74,000 Student Childcare Support grant proposal. It will cover tuition at our ECEC for the children of student-parents enrolled at NS during the 2024-25 academic year. She also co-authored an article, “Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers’ Self-reported Phonological Awareness Strategies and Challenges in Teaching English Learners,” published in the Journal of Education and Training Studies, and was the sole author on another, “Dialogism: An L2 Preschooler’s Otherness, Voices, and Answerability,” published in the International Journal of Contemporary Education.
Erika Abad (Communication) had their essay “Finding Home in Hurricane Hillary” published by Acentos Review. They also wrote the introductory essay, “LatinX Marks the Wound and Space for Collective Healing,” for an interview series they are organizing for Latinx Pop Magazine.
Jennifer Edmonds (Biology) and Walter Aminger (Education) collaborated on a $110,000 grant subaward request through DRI. The grant will provide internship opportunities in CCSD high schools for STEM majors and Secondary Education majors.
André Lindsey (SLP) received a Congressional earmark of $938,000 over three years to support clinical training opportunities for SLP students and increase services the NS Speech-Language Clinic offers to the community.
Jayia Lewis (ECEC Director), Youngae Choi (Early Childhood Education), and Sophia Kraus (ECEC Coordinator) submitted three grant proposals, two of which were funded. The United Way grant will provide about $256,000 to cover tuition at the ECEC for qualifying parents, while the Nevada Department of Education grant would have provided $526,000 to expand staffing at the ECEC. The third grant, from the Nevada Department of Agriculture, will subsidize the cost of milk for children attending the ECEC.
Kayla Bieser (Biology) is co-author of “Genetic Mapping and Phenotypic Analysis of GstE14E.4.1 on Eye and Antennae Development in Drosophila melanogaster” and “Genetic Mapping of prodE.3.3, a New Lethal Allele of prod,” both published in microPublication Biology. She also submitted a subaward proposal for an NSF-IUSE grant application with University of Detroit Mercy. The subaward would provide $184,000 to NS to expand use and assess the outcomes of the Fly-CURE genetics research experience.
Tom Nicholas (Workforce Development) received a Congressional earmark of $1.6 million to support programs related to mental health and wellbeing, particularly for HR staff and those working in mental health in schools. He also submitted a subaward proposal for UNLV’s National Nuclear Security Administration MSI Program grant; if funded, it would provide $250,000 to support microcredentials and other workforce development programming.
Stefanie Coleman (Student Affairs) submitted a GEAR UP proposal for $56,000 to support outreach to high school students regarding transitioning to college.
Sungju Moon (Math) applied for a NV Governor’s Office of Science, Innovation, and Technology grant.
Anthony Morrone (Student Financial Services) received a $10,000 grant for outreach and support to students regarding this year’s FAFSA.
El Hachemi Bouali (Geosciences) is PI on an approved NSF EPSCoR subaward of $9,5000 that is supporting two students’ undergraduate research projects. El was also quoted in two LA Times articles, both about recent landslides.
LaKiasha Hollingsworth (TRIO-SSS Director) reapplied for the TRIO-SSS grant. It would provide about $273,000 a year to support 150 eligible first-generation and low-income students and students with disabilities.
Rachel Herzl-Betz (Writing Center Director) and britty cox (Writing Center Coordinator) had their article, “A Collective Center for Communal Care,” published by Another Word, a publication of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center.
Sam Jewell (Biology) co-authored the article “The Altered Neonatal CD8+ T cell Immunodominance Hierarchy during Influenza Virus Infection Impacts Peptide Vaccination,” which was accepted for publication in Viruses.
Elizabeth Gunn (LASB Dean) has published several poems recently. “Blank Verse” and “Epistolary” appeared in The Rumen, “Unstill” was published in The Passionfruit Review, “City of Pleasant Living“ was accepted by The City Key, and “How to Avoid a Near Life Experience” was published in Loud Coffee Press.
Shantal Marshall (Psychology) and Laura Naumann (Psychology) co-authored the article “‘Is It Worth It?’ Academic-related Guilt among College Student Caregivers,” published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
Heidi Batiste (Business) and Molly Appel (English) co-authored “Applying Latin American Cultural and Literary Studies to Diversity Management Education,” which was published in Management Teaching Review.
Sherri Coffman (Nursing) and Anna Taber (Nursing) co-authored the article “Developing Self-regulated Learners in Nursing,” published in the Journal of Nursing Education.
Vu Duong (Biology) and Nina Marcellus (Nursing) learned their article, “A Recipe for a Successful Collaboration: Coming Together, Staying Together, Working Together,” has been accepted by NISOD Innovation Abstracts.

4/30/2024

Sheri Bayley (SLP) had an article, “Pilot Comparison of Reading Quiz Formats in a Graduate Speech Sound Disorders Course,” accepted for publication in Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders.
Zarah Borines (SON) and Sierra Adare-tasiwoopa api (CTLE) co-authored the article “The Effectiveness of Badging Systems in Engaging, Motivating, and Incentivizing Students in the Mastery of Nursing Licensure Materials,” published in International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijnes-2023-0078/html

Dr. Sherri Coffman and Anna Taber were recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Nursing Education for an article titled Developing Self-regulated Learners in Nursing.
Shartriya Collier (Associate Dean of Education) published “Black Teacher, Black Mommy: Co-conspirators for Equity in American Public Schools” in Black Educology Mixtape “Journal.” https://repository.usfca.edu/be/vol2/iss1/15/

3/5/2024

Nathaniel King and Alena Manjuck (University Library) had their article “Textbook Justice League: Creating a textbook affordability institute” published in the Journal of Academic Librarianship.
Rachel Herzl-Betz was awarded a research grant from the Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association (RMWCA) to support a digital hiring and recruitment archive.
Alena Manjuck (University Library) is a recipient of the 2024 SILS Rising Star Alumni Award from the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. The award recognizes “recognizes recently graduated alumni who have demonstrated exceptional growth in their profession or chosen field, early professional library or information science achievements at national, state, or local levels, and/or who have provided outstanding service to SILS or its Alumni Association.”
El Hachemi Bouali (Geosciences) was featured in an article in the LA Times, “Their Neighbors Lost Everything in a Massive Landslide. Now They Fear for Their Homes.”
Heather Lang-Cassera (College Success) had her micropoem collection Where Hunger Must Be Feral acquired by rinky dink press. She read at Avantpop Bookstore’s Poetry Arcade showcase; proceeds went to the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center.
Erin Rider (Assistant Director of Faculty Development and Diversity) co-authored two chapters, “Breaking Barriers: Women Refugee Entrepreneurship and Integration Frameworks in the U.S.” and “Social Capital, NGOs, and the Resilience of Refugee Women Entrepreneurs,” that will be published in Refugee Entrepreneurship: A Research Companion, from Routledge Press.
Molly Appel (English) has an article, “On Willful Learning: Pedagogies of Testimonio in Alicia Partnoy’s The Little School,” forthcoming in College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies.
Neil Longley (Director of Business) learned that his book, A Whole New Game, was named one of the 100 Best Books of 2023 by the Ottawa (Canada) media outlet The Hill Times.
Heidi Batiste (Business) had her article “Management in Times of Crisis: A Qualitative Exploration of the Great Resignation from a Social Exchange Perspective” accepted for publication in Compensation & Benefits Review.
Jessica Parks (Business) is co-author on the article “Examining College Students’ Attitudes towards Poverty during the Adult Role of the Community Action Poverty Simulation,” accepted by the Journal of Human Sciences and Extension.
Katrina Nichols (SLP) co-authored the article “Varying Syntax to Enhance Verb-Focused Intervention for 30-Month-Olds with Language Delay: A Concurrent Multiple Baseline Design,” which was published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. She also co-authored “Pedagogical Approaches to Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Communication Sciences and Disorders: A Nationwide Survey,” which is forthcoming in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
Seseer Mou-Danha (Communication) submitted a proposal to the Southern Nevada Health District. It would provide $20,000 to help us transition to being a smoke-free/vape-free campus.
Katie Dockweiler (School Psychology) and Roberta Kaufman (Professor Emerita, Education) co-authored the article “School Psychology: Increasing Awareness, Enhancing Policies, and Reducing Shortages,” published in Psychology in the Schools.
Youngae Choi (Early Childhood Education) submitted a Clark County OAG Community Initiatives grant proposal. It would provide $75,000 to pay tuition for NS student-parents to enroll their children at our Early Childhood Education Center.
André Lindsey (SLP) is co-author on the chapter “Assessing Discourse Ability in Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury” in Spoken Discourse Impairments in the Neurogenic Populations. He also submitted a Department of Education grant proposal requesting $1.2 million over four years to support students in the SLP program through mentorship, culturally responsive teaching, and outdoor education.