A multidisciplinary team from UNLV's Computer Science and Teaching & Learning departments was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. The team included: Edward Jorgensen (Computer Science), Marla Goins (Teaching &…

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) was named a 2025 Association for Psychological Science Rising Star. According to APS, “this designation recognizes researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.”

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology), Graham McGinnis (Kinesiology and Nutrition), and colleagues recently published a new paper, "Associations between intraindividual variability in weekday-weekend sleep timing and duration and eating disorder pathology," in Eating Behaviors.

Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez (Journalism and Media Studies) with co-authors Gabriela Perdomo Páez (Mount Royal University), Stacey Copeland (University of Groningen) and Kim Fox (The American University in Cairo) recently published "Decolonial Methods in Podcast Production Studies: Reflections From Practice-Led Research" in Emerging Media. In the…

Amanda Belarmino (Hospitality), Christopher Cain (Hospitality, PGM), and Junghoon Lee (Hospitality, PGM - current PhD. student) recently published a case study, "Examining the Impact of Learning Styles on Anxiety Coping Mechanisms for Hospitality Students: A Case Study of Future and Current Golf Professionals" in the Journal of Hospitality…

Dale Melgaard (Film) has received the "Best Screenplay Writing" award for the script, The Phatman, at the MEI International Film Festival.

April Ursula Fox (Educational Psychology), author and editor, has published the STTAR - Storytelling with Tarot Anthology. Also available for digital download through Avantpop Publishing. This project was supported in part by the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV. STTAR is a collection of short stories by Las Vegas writers,…

Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences) published a paper titled, "Data-Driven Identification of Early Cancer-Associated Genes via Penalized Trans-Dimensional Hidden Markov Models," in Biomolecules Journal. The paper proposes a new protocol and a case study for analyzing cancer epigenetic data. The proposed methodology is based on two of his…

JMS MA graduate Alain DeSaix (Journalism and Media Studies), Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies), Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute), Paul Rama (Weber State) published a peer-reviewed paper titled, "Creating Value in Esports: How Branding, Marketing, and Regional Identity Propel Esports in the journal Sage Business…