Sarah Wolff, Jonathan Hilpert, Vanessa Vongkulluksn (all (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and their colleagues at UNC published a paper in Contemporary Educational Psychology titled "Self-efficacy inertia: The role of competency beliefs and academic burden in achievement." This paper uses the random-intercept cross-…

Linda Lister (Music) had her song "Ariel Ambitions," from the song cycle Pleas to Famous Fairies, performed at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Soprano Hannah Winston sang the song on the concert Peabody Songbook Series: A Woman's Point of View.

Marta Soligo (Hospitality) was interviewed by USA Today about tourist taxes. While reflecting on the effectiveness of tourist fees, she spoke about the climate crisis as a global phenomenon, the risk of not-so-successful “Band-Aid” approaches, and the importance of including Indigenous knowledge in land management practices. 

Jenna Weglarz-Ward and Melissa Yarczower (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented a session "Functional Frameworks for Inclusive Fieldwork: A Systematic Review", alongside colleagues Maryssa Mitsch from San Francisco State (UNLV Alumni, 2017), Jessica Branch from Murray State University, Prince Estanislao and Hadas…

Melissa Yarczower and Jenna Weglarz-Ward (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented a poster entitled "Exploring Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Context in Preparation Programs" at the 40th Annual International Conference on Young Children with Disabilities and their Families for the Division for Early…

Katherine Walker (English) gave an invited talk at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium titled "Ben Jonson's Supernatural Swindlers." 

Dr. Gregory Brown (Medicine) presented "TRAUMA and trauma: The Hypnosis Antidote" at the 4th Annual 5-PATH International Association of Hypnosis Professional Symposium.

Jarret Keene (English) will give a reading at the Clark Country Library Theater on Oct. 17 as a Las Vegas Writes series editor, in collaboration with Nevada Humanities. The reading will be from the just-published "Desert Superbloom: Las Vegas Writers on Scarcity and Abundance" (Huntington Press), a collection of original essays…

The summer 2024 issue of Western American Literature contains a review of the dystopian-adventure novel "Hammer of the Dogs" (University of Nevada Press, 2023) by Jarret Keene (English): "Operating squarely in the purview of The Hunger Games and Divergent novels, with a bit of Harry Potter, 'Hammer of the Dogs' brings anarchistic glee to the post-…