Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper titled, "Spain's Laws (and Literature) on Gypsies," at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, held this year in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Can Borders Be Feminist?" at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique (Center for Research on Ethics) in Montreal, Canada. 

Over the weekend of March 11-12, Susan Lee Johnson (History) gave lectures about the book Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West for the Tesoro Cultural Center's Historic Lectures Series. The Tesoro Cultural Center is a non-profit affiliated with The Fort Restaurant near Denver, and lecturers speak both at The Fort and at…

Richard Rosenkranz, Ph.D., and Sara Rosenkranz, Ph.D., (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently published, "Holistic Framework to Contextualize Dietary Quality Assessment: A Critical Review," in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health with co-authors Jessica Phelan and Connor Phelan.

Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a study on the working conditions and leadership perceptions of school mental health professionals (school counselors, psychologists, and social workers) during remote schooling during the pandemic in the Journal of Education Human Resources. Results…

Nicole Short (Psychology) was awarded a five-year Career Development award by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (1K23DA054299-01A1; total to be awarded $787,634). This award will allow her to test the initial efficacy of and mechanisms underlying a new digital therapeutic she developed to prevent the development of posttraumatic stress disorder…

Drs. Kurt Regner and Eduardo Robleto's (both Life Sciences) NSF REU Site: Mechanisms of Evolution (DBI 2244087) proposal was funded ($350,972, Start Date: 03/15/regner2023, End Date: 02/28/2026). 

Ph.D. student Hannah Patenaude (Radiochemistry) and fellow of the Glenn T. Seaborg Institute at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), recently published a technical paper on the history of the Los Alamos Plutonium Fast Reactor, Clementine. The article was published in the online journal Nuclear Technology and provides an in-depth look at…

The Nevada Arts Council has awarded musical director and conductor of the UNLV Symphony Orchestra Taras Krysa (Music) a Fiscal Year 2023 Grant Award in the Project Grant for Artists category for a Bach Brandenburg Concertos event with Las Vegas Sinfonietta Orchestra on March 19.    The Nevada Arts…