Professor Doris Watson (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Monica Moreno, associate director of Academic Advising in the College of Education Student Services Center, are the recipients of the 2025-2026 UNLV Academic Advisor Awards. The UNLV Academic Advisor awards recognize individuals with an exceptional record of…

Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez (Journalism and Media Studies), with co-authors Rasika Muralidharan (Indiana University), María Montenegro (Rutgers University), and Danny Valdez (Indiana University), recently published "Analysis of Breast Cancer Information on Facebook Using Neural Network–Based Topic Modeling and Metadata Analysis of English and Spanish…

Part-time professor Diana Eden’s (Film) first memoir, Stars in Their Underwear, recounts her storied career as a Broadway dancer, actress, and three-time Emmy nominated costume designer working with some of the world's biggest celebrities such as George Clooney, Reba McEntire, Diana Ross, and Betty White. In her second book, Getting Old and…

Katherine Feather, Heather Dahl-Jacinto, and Madeline Clark (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published, "Humanizing the treatment of Autism: Experiences of mental health professionals working alongside children with ASD and their families," in the Journal of Humanistic Counseling.

Vlada Stark (Medicine) presented "Sustaining Sisterhood: Fostering Women’s Friendships and Allyship within Learning Communities in Medical School" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Emma Sevoian, Isabelle Avenido, Kathi Pauli, and Rosalie Kalili (all Medicine) presented "Pod Power – the next level of nurturing growth and knowledge" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Sunny Zhang, Amandine Roure, Bridger Woods, and Aftab Merchant (all Medicine) presented "Quantifying Early Professional Identity Formation in Medical Students: A Protocol for Assessing the Impact of Learning Communities" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Sunny Zhang, Angela Herrera, Jasmin Kumar, and Amy Stone (all Medicine) presented "From Connection to Utilization: Exploring the Longitudinal Impact of Learning Community Cohesion on Medical Student Resource Engagement" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Angela Herrera, Rubaab Wahid, Jasmin Kumar, Sunny Zhang, and Amy Stone (all Medicine) presented "How Group Closeness Shapes the Relationship Between Personality and Engagement in Medical School Learning Communities" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.