Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) has been appointed to the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Hispanics/Latinxs.

Marla Royne Stafford (Marketing & International Business) has been named as an advisor to the Cannabis Media Council. The Cannabis Media Council is the first trade council dedicated to using the power of mainstream media to uplift wholehearted, people-centered advertising campaigns that show positive experiences with cannabis. Stafford has…

LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has been elected as the Chair-Elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Research on Women in Education (RWE) Special Interest Group (SIG) for the upcoming year. This appointment follows her dedicated service as a committee co-chair…

Scott Jackson (Accounting) and co-authors Elaine Wang and David Piercey from the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently published their paper, "Does Temporal Immediacy Impact Investors’ Judgments? It Depends on Communication Mode," in the journal Behavioral Research in Accounting. The study finds that investors are more willing to…

Rakshitha Mohankumar, Katie T. Singsank, Brenna N. Renn (all Psychology) and Samantha E. John (Brain Health) recently published a chapter entitled "Mental Status Examination" in the text "Diagnostic Interviewing (6th Edition)." This guide for emerging and seasoned clinicians centers on clinical description and the pragmatics of “how to” conduct…

Amanda Melilli (Libraries) and co-authors Alicia G. Vaandering (University of Rhode Island) and James W. Rosenzweig (Eastern Washington University) published a book chapter titled, "Here, Queer, but Catalog Records Aren't Used to it: The Discoverability of LGBTQIA+ Representation in Library Collections" in Censorship is a Drag: LGBTQ Materials and…

Professor Nachman Gutowski (Law) presented at the Jacksonville University Law Review Symposium entitled, "The Emergence of AI and Its Impact in the Legal Field."

A multidisciplinary team from UNLV's Computer Science and Teaching & Learning departments was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. The team included: Edward Jorgensen (Computer Science), Marla Goins (Teaching &…

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) was named a 2025 Association for Psychological Science Rising Star. According to APS, “this designation recognizes researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.”