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College of Liberal Arts News

The College of Liberal Arts offers students a well-rounded education in the humanities and social sciences. Students develop strong analytical and communication skills for a lifetime of learning and discovery that can be applied to a wide variety of careers.

Current Liberal Arts News

UNLV researchers looking at brain scan peer through glass at fRMI machine
Research |

UNLV boasts Nevada’s only MRI facility dedicated to university research. Here’s what our professors hope to discover with it.

Jennifer Young on a trail at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
Business and Community |

At the heart of the School of Medicine's commitment to service is Jennifer Young, whose work continues to strengthen the bonds between the school and the community it serves.

Polaroid photos of students against a cassette tape background
People |

UNLV students set the tone for their post-grad futures through internship experiences across the country.

Riana Durrett sits on desk in library
People |

The director of UNLV’s Cannabis Policy Institute helps students get in on the ground floor of a growing industry.

Jenna Heath in a black, red, and white dress sits at table with iced coffee
People |

The administrative faculty honoree has built her career around helping students find confidence, direction, and community.

Engle family in front of Honors College sign
People |

The Engle family's love for UNLV runs so deep they named their terrier-poodle mix Rebel. Now, they're helping the next generation of Honors College students unleash their potential.

Liberal Arts In The News

Macau Business

Experts interviewed by Macau Business in both Macau and Nevada point to two defining future challenges: the integration of artificial intelligence and the intensifying demands of external regulation.

Formosa Television

Playing out on Taiwan's outlying islands: preparations for what many fear could be the world's next major flashpoint. This is part of Han Kuang, Taiwan's annual military exercises. Active units and reservists mobilized all over the island, reacting to a simulated invasion from China.

Las Vegas Review Journal

There was a time, not too long ago, when gamblers who exhausted their bankroll had to get up from a slot machine or table game to find more money. A trip to the ATM, casino cage or back to the hotel room created a brief pause before the next wager.

Miami Herald

Campaign fundraising in the 2026 Senate battlegrounds has become overwhelmingly nationalized, leaving most high-stakes candidates far more reliant on out-of-state donors than the voters they hope to represent.

Ledger-Enquirer

Campaign fundraising in the 2026 Senate battlegrounds has become overwhelmingly nationalized, leaving most high-stakes candidates far more reliant on out-of-state donors than the voters they hope to represent.

Nevada Independent

There were some notable broad agreements — such as about developing data centers on federal land — but also different priorities about the feds’ role.

Liberal Arts Experts

A historian and curator of 20th century American culture, specializing in clothing, political fashion, and the use of fashion in the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. 
An expert in African American culture and the history of slavery in the U.S.
An expert in the evolution of human nutrition, hunter-gatherer societies, and the division of labor between the sexes. 
An expert in auditory, language, and musical research.
An expert on commercial aviation, airport history, and travel.
An expert in urban culture and interactions, popular culture, religion and spirituality, craft beer, and the Boston Red Sox.

Recent Liberal Arts Accomplishments

Roberto Lovato (English) moderated a discussion about journalist and author Gabriel San Roman's Days of Dissent: Revolts, Strikes, and Rebel Histories, a groundbreaking book that excavates the buried history of the radical labor and other social movements left out of traditional, top-down history. The book's unique approach to history marks each…
Maja Jeranko (Anthropology) contributed a chapter to Decolonial Engagements in Anthropology, an edited volume that grew out of a 2023 workshop in Ascona organized by the InterFace Commission. Her chapter, "Feminist Decolonial Research as Collaborative Pedagogy: Lessons from Post-Disaster Coastal Ecuador," examines the challenges and opportunities…
Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) co-guest edited a special Issue of the peer-reviewed and open-access Journal of Folklore and Education titled “Teaching with Monsters: From Whimsy to Shadow.” This issue seeks to create space for the broad spectrum of ways we as humans interact with monsters. While most often associated…
Ashby Boland, Lauren Reyes, and Nicole Short (all Psychology), along with colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and SAFE Austin, have published a manuscript titled “Temporal associations between nightmares and PTSD symptoms in the acute post-sexual assault period: An ecological momentary assessment…
April Ursula Fox (Education) proposed and moderated the student-centered panel What is the Message? Punk Expressions in School and Community at PunkCon 2026. The roundtable brought together UNLV students to explore what a punk way of thinking can mean within school and community spaces, with particular attention to questioning authority…
Mayumi Ajioka (World Languages and Cultures) received a Laura Bassi Foundation Editorial Grant (Summer 2026) in support of her research on heritage language speakers’ motivation to learn and maintain their heritage language. The grant provides partial support for the preparation of a journal article manuscript for publication.