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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

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

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

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

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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.

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A collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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With programs spanning bachelor’s through doctoral levels, students can tailor their education to their specific professional goals.

Liberal Arts In The News

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

A campaign sign depicting California Governor Gavin Newsom and Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford appeared to be vandalized with a swastika in recent days.

Popular Mechanics

Our minds evolved to survive. But their inner workings have astonishing—and sometimes disturbing—consequences for everyday life.

KSNV-TV: News 3

The brief exchange lasted only a few seconds, but the reaction has since drawn national attention and sparked an even broader conversation about whether moments of tragedy have become influenced by the nation’s growing political divide.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Sixty years after opening its doors on the Strip, Caesars Palace hotel-casino is celebrating a milestone that few Las Vegas properties have reached while remaining one of the city’s defining destinations.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Sixty years after opening its doors on the Strip, Caesars Palace hotel-casino is celebrating a milestone that few Las Vegas properties have reached while remaining one of the city’s defining destinations.

Las Vegas Sun

Hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters will flock to Red Rock Resort today as he returns to Las Vegas, this time to tout the Republican-backed tax cuts — provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law July 4, 2025, that suspend federal taxes on tips, overtime pay and Social Security benefits.

Liberal Arts Experts

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An expert in political philosophy, philosophy for children, and Latinx philosophies.
An expert on the apocalypse, and American literature and culture.
An expert on mental health counseling and counselor education. 

Recent Liberal Arts Accomplishments

Andrew Lugg and Jared Oestman (both Political Science) published their paper “Reciprocity in International Law: Evidence from Investor-State Dispute Settlement” in the World Trade Review, a leading journal in international trade and investment law. Lugg and Oestman use a survey experiment (n = 2,227) on US attitudes towards Investor-State Dispute…
Natalie Hsiao and William Ramsey (both Philosophy) published their paper, "A Different Type of Framing Effect." In this paper, Hsiao and Ramsey argue that the way in which philosophical thought experiments (like the trolley problem) are typically presented in the literature can influence peoples’ intuitive judgments about what the thought…
Shane W. Kraus (Psychology), associate professor and director of the Behavioral Addictions Lab at UNLV, recently published six peer-reviewed articles advancing research on behavioral addictions, mental health, and public health. The publications appeared in leading journals including Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Public Health, the Journal…
John Curry (History) presented a paper titled "The Life of Ünsi Hasan Efendi (d. 1723): Failed Saint, or Indicator of Structural Change in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire?" in a panel on Empires and Ideologies at the American Historical Association's Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting held on the UNLV campus on July 30-31. He also chaired a…
Erica Hanna and Heather Thompson (both Liberal Arts) partnered with Intermountain Health and United Way of Southern Nevada to present an Early Childhood (Birth to Age 5) Emotional Well-Being Workshop for parents and preschool educators. The workshop focused on helping caregivers understand typical emotional development and age-appropriate…
Gregory Brown, John Curry, John Haberstroh, Jeff Schauer, A.B. Wilkinson, Dakota Ciolkosz, Fabian Rebolledo, Connor Young, Jessica Ayala Venegas, Natalie Dechaine, Nathan Pormentira, Emma Vermillion, EJ Decastro, Demetrius Khananisho Tolliver, Adrien (all History) presented at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association…