In brief

July 27, 2009 by The Rebel Yell 

CSUN seeks potential senators

The undergraduate student government is still looking for qualified candidates to fill student senator positions.

Available positions include three openings for the college of business, two seats in the college of urban affairs, one seat for the college of health sciences and one seat to represent university studies students.

Student senators are expected to attend every meeting of the CSUN Senate and must go before the Senate for appointment during a regularly scheduled meeting.

Applicants must be in good standing within their college and must commit to serving one to two hours in their office each week in order to be available for meetings with their student electorate.

Applications for the positions are due no later than 5 p.m. on Aug. 7 to room 316 in the Student Union and can be found online at unlvcsun.com.
The forms may also be sent via e-mail to Senate President Victor Barragan at victor.barragan@unlv.edu.

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A world-class department

A recent study ranked UNLV’s Department of Management Information Systems as the 20th worldwide in terms of placing articles into research journals.

From 2003 to 2007, the MIS department published nine articles in the field’s top journals: Management Information Systems Quarterly, Information Systems Research and the Journal of Management Information Systems.

This ties UNLV’s MIS department with those of UC Riverside, UC Irvine and Clemson University for the number of articles placed into those publications.
More than 95 universities around the world were able to place two or more research articles into these journals.

A similar study showed that from 2001 to 2005, UNLV came in at number 13.

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Professor fights pollution

UNLV Professor David Kreamer spoke before the House Natural Resources Committee’s Parks Subcommittee, urging legislators to look into the effects of mining on the Colardo River.

Kreamer, an expert in hydrogeology and contaminant transport by groundwater, said that a spring that feeds the Colorado was contaminated by years of pollution caused by mining in the area.

The professor told House members that his observations of a creek that eventually merges into the Colorado provided evidence of high levels of uranium three times the level recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency.

While other scientists testified that the practices which led to these developments have long since been abandoned and that the mining industry should not be affected, Kreamer and Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona called for a stop to mining on 1.1 million acres of federal lands near the Grand Canyon.

Las Vegas draws a majority of its water from the Colorado River, as do other major metropolitan cities in the western United States.

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UNLV director joins city council

Debra March, executive director of UNLV’s Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies was appointed to a seat on the Henderson City Council.

March, who also serves as a city-planning commissioner, was sworn in on July 21 at a meeting of the council.

She will join the five-member council and assume the seat vacated by Andy Hafen after he was elected Henderson mayor.

March was chosen out of 14 applicants and will serve out the remaining two years of Hafen’s term.