The article, "‘Las Vegas’ lights don’t shine here:’ Tourism placemaking in the Historic Westside," was recently published in An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment. Through interviews and analysis of archival material, co-authors Marta Soligo (Hospitality), Claytee White (Libraries), and Bo Bernhard (Hospitality) examined…

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) delivered a keynote address at the International Conference on Healthcare Innovations in Software, Engineering & Technology (HISET-2025) held in Karad, Maharashtra, India. The title of his presentation was "Advent of the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change in…

Paul Werth (History) has published a Russian translation of his book "1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution" (Oxford, 2021), with the publisher Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie in Moscow. The Russian version appears as "1837: Russia's Hidden Transformation," because the Putin regime does not like revolutions, even "quiet" ones (i.e., ones by stealth, under…

Four members of the Department of Internal Medicine were honored at the 2025 Nevada Chapter of the American College of Physicians Annual Meeting. Dr. Amber Champion was awarded the Woman Physician of the Year Award. She was recognized for her distinguished career in areas of exceptional patient care and medical education. Champion has been a…

Michael Green (History) presented a lecture, "The Tropicana: From Tiffany to Island to Gone," at the Clark County Museum on Nov. 13.

On Oct. 27, Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) was awarded a Black Mountain Institute Faculty Research Award funding his research on "Creative Labor in the Age of AI." He plans to interview and document participants in the Las Vegas creative economy, building on his previous projects exploring emerging technologies, labor, and creative…

Professor Gregory Borchard (Journalism and Media Studies) was re-elected by acclamation for a second term as President of the Society of Nineteenth Century Historians during the 33rd Annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press at Augusta University on Nov. 14, 2025.

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Ph.D. student Karen Lorena Figueroa Chilito coauthored an article titled, “Evaluating a novel multi-species vector control tool for humanitarian crises: the efficacy of attractive targeted sugar baits among forcibly displaced populations in Northern Nigeria,” in the journal BMC Medicine…

Jesse Fitts (Philosophy) has published the paper, "Access Denied: An Argument Against King’s Propositional Access Principle," in the journal Thought: A Journal of Philosophy.