On September 25, Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) presented her latest book of poetry, The Homelandless, (Kiev, Ukraine, 2022) within the Intercultural Poetry Readings program held at Russian Samovar, New York, NY. 

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) participated in the Boston Poetry Readings series in tandem with Alexander Amchislavsky (Toronto, Canada) and presented her latest poetry book, The Homelandless (Kiev, Ukraine, 2022). 

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) was published in The Poetry of the Latest Times. The Chronicles, an anthology of war-time poetry (Ivan Limbakh Publishing, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2022; selected and edited by Yurii Leving). 

Unforgetting, the reported memoir by visiting professor Roberto Lovato (English) was recognized in the Los Angeles Times as the inspiration for an art show curated by artist Felix Quintana in Los Angeles. “Much of my work is a dialogue in response to literary material,” he says. The chosen title, “Love is the Given of the Place,” borrowed from…

Visiting professor Roberto Lovato (English) wrote a tribute to legendary urbanist and writer Mike Davis, who was also Lovato's friend. "He was one of the preeminent poet warriors of the English-speaking world," wrote Lovato in his Nation Magazine article, adding, "It is a testament to the power of Mike’s thought and passion that thousands of other…

Ph.D. student Em Coombes (Sociology) recently published their co-authored article, “Disabled Sex Workers’ Fight for Digital Rights, Platform Accessibility, and Design Justice,” in Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ). The research examines how normative whorephobic, racist, ableist user experience (UX) social media…

Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) bestowed the first Lough Award to Ceyda Mumcu at the Sport Marketing Association national conference. The purpose of the Lough Award is to recognize an educator and scholar of sport marketing who not only promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion, but also publishes…

Zaijing Sun and Krishnakumar Nangeelil (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) recently gave oral presentations at the 26th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry in Denton, Texas. Sun's talk is titled, "Developing a Remote Gamma Spectra Collection System for Radiation Sciences at UNLV," and…

Brenna Renn (Psychology) published two recent manuscripts focused on her line of work developing nonspecialist providers to deliver low-intensity behavioral interventions to expand access to treatment for common mental health disorders. The first, published in Aging & Mental Health, detailed a pilot study to train bachelor-level students to…