Erika Engstrom (Communication Studies) has written an article, "Entertainment as Education: Multiculturalism and Interculturalism in Eytan Fox's 2004 Film Walk on Water," that appears in the current issue of Popular Culture Review. In the article, Engstrom explicates how the Israeli-German film illustrates both the recognition and celebration…

Dr. Jeffrey Cummings (Brain Health) recently published an article, “The Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI): Development and Applications,” in the Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology. The article reviews the development of the NPI assessment tool since Dr. Cummings first introduced it 25 years ago and which has been used in…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) published a co-authored article in the February issue of the journal Past Present. In "Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas," the authors argue that canines played an integral role in colonizing North and South America, and initiating the subsequent expansion of the transatlantic…

The Believer, the flagship magazine of the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, is a finalist for the 2020 National Magazine Awards in three categories. “Cabramatta,” an interactive comic by Matt Huynh supported by the Tran Thi Oanh Black Mountain Institute Fund, was nominated in the Digital Innovation category…

Erik Beehn (Art) is interviewed by the first department of art Transformation Fellow Amanda Browder on the podcast "Bad at Sports: Contemporary Art Talk Without the Ego." Browder and Beehn discuss Beehn's work as an artist and printmaker and their takes on art scenes in Las Vegas.

Sapira Cheuk and Fawn Douglas (both Art) have work that is included in an exhibit, Margaret, Are You Grieving, that is on view at Nevada Humanities Program Gallery. Several UNLV alumni, including Montana Black, Lance Smith, Kim Garrison, and Steve Radosevich, also are part of the exhibit.

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, Moral Incongruence and Compulsive Sexual Behavior: Results from Cross-sectional Interactions and Parallel Growth Curve Analyses) in Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 

Thomas Padilla (Libraries) was the February 2020 interview for the National Information Standards Organization's Information Organized website. Padilla was interviewed about a recent report commissioned by OCC, "Responsible Operations: Data Science, Machine Learning and AI in Libraries" that he wrote. The report represents…

Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) and Marcia Allison (University of Southern California) published a paper, "Rhetorical Imaginings and Multimodal Arguments at the European Green Belt: Juxtaposing Nonhuman Nature and Technology in our Collective Memory of the Cold War" in the Journal of Argumentation in Context. The paper…