Richard M. Oxborough, Trishan Wickramasinghe, Louisa Messenger (all Environmental and Global Health), Nikita Gopakumar (Mechanical Engineering), Michael Fong (Art), Yafet Tiruha, and Seungman Park (both Mechanical Engineering), along with other researchers from the University of Ghana Anastasia Mosquito Control (Florida) and Imperial College…

Kristen Keach (Art) presented the paper, "From Fresco to Storyboard: Creative Adaptation and Experiential Learning in Renaissance Art History" at the 2026 American Association of Teachers of Italian in Rome, Italy.

Kristen Keach (Art) presented the paper, "Beyond the Plague: Intermedial Allegories of Death as Tools for Collective Liberation" at the 2026 American Association for Italian Studies in Sassari, Sardinia.

Hikmet Loe (Art) recently published the article "Can International Art Star Olafur Eliasson Provoke Urgency to Restore Great Salt Lake?" online with Southwest Contemporary. It asks additional questions based upon an interview with the artist. Eliasson's work, "A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake" was created as part of the…

Kristen Keach (Art) was invited to speak at UC Merced’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Speaker Series. Her talk, “Between Research and Teaching: Navigating Academia through Interdisciplinarity,” addressed graduate students in the interdisciplinary humanities program as they consider the role of interdisciplinary work in their teaching, research, and…

Department of Art members Hikmet Loe (Visiting Assistant Professor), Alina Lindquist (MFA 2028), and Andre Polidoro (BA Art History and BA Computer Science 2025) presented at the ExplOER Nevada Symposium. Their session, "Beyond Books: Open Education Brings Art History to Life," shared teaching practices and student engagement in the course Art 478…

Kristen Keach (Art) presented the paper, "Re-imagining Language Pedagogy: Critical Perspectives on AI Integration," at the 2026 Modern Language Association Annual Conference in Toronto, Canada.

Hikmet Loe (Art) was recognized in Nevadans for Cultural Preservation December Activities Newsletter by executive director Rayette Martin (MA Anthropology, 2010). Martin was a guest speaker in Loe's course ART 478/678: Great Basin Art and Artifacts. Martin wrote: This course serves as an excellent bridge between the arts and archaeology,…

Kristen Keach (Art) presented the paper, "Ekphrastic Robots, Prophecy, and the Paragone in Canto XLII of l'Orlando furioso" at the 2025 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Kristen Keach (Art) presented two papers, "Coloring Outside the Lines: Female Painters in the Bolognese School" and "Reframing Judith: Elisabetta Sirani and Commercial Politics of Female Violence," at the 2025 Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Hikmet Loe (Art) presented the paper "Situated Art and Knowledge: The Material Culture Surrounding Great Basin Land Art" at the biannual Great Basin Anthropological Conference, in Reno.

Hikmet Loe's (Art) was interviewed by The Post and Courier 's editor-at-large Autumn Phillips, then cited in Phillips's published article, "In the secluded Nevada desert, the largest piece of land art in the world offers a pilgrimage."