Katherine Walker (English) gave an invited talk at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium titled "Ben Jonson's Supernatural Swindlers." 

Dr. Gregory Brown (Medicine) presented "TRAUMA and trauma: The Hypnosis Antidote" at the 4th Annual 5-PATH International Association of Hypnosis Professional Symposium.

Jarret Keene (English) will give a reading at the Clark Country Library Theater on Oct. 17 as a Las Vegas Writes series editor, in collaboration with Nevada Humanities. The reading will be from the just-published "Desert Superbloom: Las Vegas Writers on Scarcity and Abundance" (Huntington Press), a collection of original essays…

The summer 2024 issue of Western American Literature contains a review of the dystopian-adventure novel "Hammer of the Dogs" (University of Nevada Press, 2023) by Jarret Keene (English): "Operating squarely in the purview of The Hunger Games and Divergent novels, with a bit of Harry Potter, 'Hammer of the Dogs' brings anarchistic glee to the post-…

As part of the leadership team for Q:UNLV (the LGBTQ+ staff/faculty affinity group), staff members Ash Quinn, Raven Brown (both Student Affairs), and Rocky Rockstraw (Nursing) presented a panel at the Southern Nevada Diversity Summit on October 4. The panel included two students, the co-president of UNLV's registered student organization Spectrum…

Renata F. Guzzo, Jaimi Garlington, Carola Raab, and Amanda Belarmino (all Hospitality) published the article "How do online meal delivery platforms impact restaurant employees?" in the Journal of Foodservice Business Research. The study surveyed 279 front-of-house and back-of-house restaurant employees to…

Zhaohuan Zhu (Physics and Astronomy) has been awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and one from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), serving as Principal Investigator for all three. These grants will support his cutting-edge research in astrophysics and planetary science. The NSF Astronomy and…

Noehealani Antolin (Medicine) has been appointed Treasurer of the Nevada Public Health Association (NPHA), whose mission is to advocate for public health in Nevada, with a focus on improving health outcomes and promoting equity in health status. She is the Grant and Research Director for a traffic safety initiative that aims to reduce traffic…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds Office) recently published a post on Informed Informality, his blog that considers people, organizations, conflict, and culture, among other things. The post veers between BJJ instructional and a meditation on intentionality that, the author hopes, might connect with readers who aren't looking for tips on how to establish…