Gary Totten (Faculty Affairs) attended the Modern Language Association annual convention in Toronto, Canada, and presented a paper, "The Rhetoric of the Leadership Pipeline," as part of a panel on the Rhetoric of Academic Leadership. In the paper, he discussed ongoing development by the Office of Faculty Affairs of various leadership programs at…

Danica G. Hays, Ph.D., (Education) and colleagues have been selected as the 2025-2026 recipient of the Chi Sigma Iota International Outstanding Research Award for their scholarship on social determinants of mental health and counseling practice. The research was published in the Journal of Counseling & Development in 2025.  

Professors Amanda Belarmino, Chris Cain, and Junghoon Lee (all Hospitality) recently published their paper, "Tee at two: examining the antecedents of willingness-to-pay for tee times at a resort golf course," in the Journal of Sport & Tourism. In this study, they examined different aspects of the golf course experience and found that…

The UNLV Women's Council is pleased to announce that it raised over $300 for the UNLV Food Pantry and collected three trunk loads during its 2nd Annual Season’s Eatings donation drive. The Women's Council would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who generously supported this initiative. The contributions helped ensure that…

John M. Bowers (English) has published his article, “The Myth of the Poor, Homeless Poet: Revising the Chaucer Biography,” in Chaucer Review 61 (January 2026): 1-21.

The Council of Standards in Human Service Education, the national accrediting body for human services degree programs, recently approved the accreditation of UNLV’s bachelor’s degree in the field. According to the council, the program, housed within the College of Education features a well-aligned, practice-focused curriculum, highly…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored an article titled, “The effectiveness of long-lasting spatial repellent emanators against malaria in humanitarian crisis settings in northern Nigeria: a two-arm pragmatic, open-label, controlled trial,” in The Lancet’s Infectious Diseases journal, in association with researchers from…

Margarita Jara Yupanqui (World Languages and Cultures) served as the lead editor of the Letras volume published by the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru), titled "Amazonian Spanish: Studies on the Diversity of Contacts in the Amazon, Toward a Regional Contextualization and the Delimitation of Monolingual Dialects."  This…

James Navalta (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and collaborators recently published in the Journal of Personalized Medicine. The article, titled "Long COVID Does Not Impair Hemodynamic, Vascular, or Autonomic Responses to Maximal Exercise: Sex-Stratified Study in Young Adults," reveals how physically active adults are largely protected…