Ph.D. candidate Kristine Jan C. Espinoza (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) is one of four authors who contributed to a commentary forum titled, "We Won’t Go Back: Asian Americans and Racial Justice After Affirmative Action," which was published in Amerasia Journal, an interdisciplinary journal in Asian American…

Professor Benjamin Edwards (Law) gave a presentation to a joint meeting of the Las Vegas Rotary Club and the Las Vegas Kiwanis Club on "Changing Financial Markets and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission."

Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published an article on "Contextualizing Depression in Pacific Islander Sexual and Gender Minority Youth—Location, History, and Culture" in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. A recent study identified high rates of depressive symptoms among groups of Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific…

Teddy Uldricks (History) presented his research on "Military and Political Uses of Rape and Sexual Assault in the Second World War: Japanese, German, and Soviet Examples," at a conference on Violence in War sponsored by the Society for the History of War, in Lisbon, Portugal, on Nov. 24, 2023.

Professor Ruben J. Garcia (Law) appeared on the Power Hour Blogcast hosted by The Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University with former acting Secretary of Labor and host Seth Harris and former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board Mark G. Pearce to discuss the State of Labor in 2023.

Professor Ruben Garcia (Law) was on the Power Hour blogcast as part of a panel discussion on conversation on the politics of labor and labor in politics, the unfinished business of pro-worker legislation, unfinished business at the NLRB, and bargaining over new technologies. 

Avinash Yaganapu and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) published original research titled, "Multi-layered Self-attention Mechanism for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation," in Computer Vision and Image Understanding (IF: 4.5). This study proposed a new strategy that incorporates multi-layered self-attentions to enhance pseudo pixel-level…

Professor John Valery White (Law) has been nominated to serve on the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Executive Committee. His nomination will be voted on at the Meeting of the House of Representatives at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in January 2024. 

Professor Ruben J. Garcia (Law) was featured on the Fox 5 Vegas channel on the "Ask the Experts" segment to discuss the strides made by labor nationally and locally in 2023 with the UAW, Writers Guild, SAG, and local Culinary Union all negotiating historic deals with their industries.