Kristen Keach (Art) presented her research at the conference Teaching and Learning with AI in Europe 2026 at Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands (Oct. 19-20, 2026). As part of the panel, "Three Disciplines, One Tool: NotebookLM," Kristen discussed how she uses NotebookLM as a pedagogical resource in the art history classroom.

Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) was an invited presenter at the National Association of Schools of Art and Design’s 82nd Annual Meeting in St. Louis October 15-17. Her session, “Designing and Implementing Innovative Curricular Programs,” shared how Art faculty rebuilt the B.A. in Art as an open-entry degree that holds its standards through course…

Hikmet Loe (Art) served as juror for two art organizations this fall: she was invited to jury the new hybrid art form category for Friends of Great Salt Lake annual "Alfred Lambourne Prize" (Salt Lake City); and was curator and juror for the Clark County Public Arts exhibition "Desert Pools" held at Winchester Dondero Cultural Center in Las Vegas.

Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) served as a featured panelist alongside art historian Natilee Harren and artist Susan Silton at Los Angeles Municipal Gallery's Barnsdall Theatre on Saturday, September 26, for a public conversation exploring vision, voice, and public address in conceptual art. Newbury is also a contributor to the accompanying…

Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) has been elected co-chair of the College Art Association's Professional Practices Committee for a two-year term starting February 2027. In this role, she will help shape national higher education best practices, intellectual property guidelines, and fair use policies in the visual arts.

Kristen Keach (Art) received a grant from the Palladio Museum to participate in its 68th Course on Palladian Architecture in Vicenza, Italy, which explored the theme "Palladio and Comfort in the Well-Designed House."

Ashley Hairston Doughty (Art) presented a poster titled “Grading Shouldn’t Suck: How Alternative Grading Can Support an Instructor’s Well-being” at the AIGA Design Educators Conference at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio.

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…