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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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Business and Community |

How a stubborn bird dropping on a campus building helped spark the winning students’ idea for a high-rise window-cleaning drone.

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People |

Joyce Woodhouse leaves Nevada better for children and families.

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Campus News |

UNLV’s commencement tradition highlights exceptional students who embody the highest level of academic excellence and community involvement.

Kpop Club dance team on stage
Arts and Culture |

As BTS returns to Las Vegas for a new world tour, UNLV's K-pop Club turns a shared interest into a student community.

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People |

The Eileen McGarry Career Champion of the Year focuses on the 'how' and 'why' of career readiness.

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Campus News |

A flowery collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

Liberal Arts In The News

Nevada Business

Taking place Monday, June 8, through Friday, June 12, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., the UNLV summer program invites students to step into the past and explore the vital role museums play in preserving and interpreting history.

Fox News

The family behind Primm Valley Resorts says it is working to revive the fading Nevada gambling hub after mass closure announcements sparked fears that it's about to become a ghost town.

Fox News

The family behind Primm Valley Resorts says it is working to revive the fading Nevada gambling hub after mass closure announcements sparked fears that it's about to become a ghost town.

Nevada Independent

From the races for governor to a rural county commission seat, candidates are wrestling with the economic and environmental effects of the divisive industry.

Vegas Business

Las Vegas has never been an all-inclusive destination. At least not truly. The familiar model, where a set and often discounted price covers a room, meals, drinks and activities, seems fundamentally at odds with how the city traditionally does business. Lose, or spend, enough at the tables or slots, and most of those things would be on the house, arguably creating a comparable perception of value.

KSNV-TV: News 3

UNLV’s newest graduates crossed the stage this spring with degrees in hand and a wide range of stories behind them. UNLV awarded more than 3,700 degrees during its spring 2026 commencement at the Thomas & Mack Center on Saturday.

Liberal Arts Experts

An expert on judges, judicial selection, and race and gender bias.
An expert in both urban sustainability and political extremism, including white supremacy
An expert on American literature and Las Vegas music.
An expert on the impact of Alzheimer's and other diseases on cognition, memory, brain processes, and neural interactions.
An expert on Asian American history, race and racism, and Thai cuisine.
An expert on child psychology, anxiety, and school absenteeism

Recent Liberal Arts Accomplishments

Graduate students Pratik S. Paranjape and Tahoura Mohammadi Ghohaki, along with faculty member Samsoon Inayat (all Psychology), published a new article in Scientific Reports titled “A transparent wheel-based platform for locomotion-on-demand and multi-view body and facial kinematics in head-fixed mice.” The study introduces a modular behavioral…
Roberto Lovato's (English) book, Unforgetting, was mentioned in The New York Times Book Review as an example of a memoir that mines "family histories alongside larger legacies of violence and imperialism, complicating their authors’ relationship to the United States."
Melikabella Shenouda (Liberal Arts; Education) performed spoken word at TEDx Las Vegas. The second annual event was held at AC Element Symphony Park with the overarching theme of “Past. Present. Possible.”.  Shenouda's composition, "Eclipse," encompasses themes of love, lust, and loss, with elements of comic relief. Through live performance…
Katherine Walker (English) published a chapter titled "Knowing Instincts in Shakespeare's Macbeth" in the collection Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early Modern English Stage (Edinburgh University Press), edited by Pavneet Aulakh and James Kearney. 
Barbara Roth (Anthropology), Ph.D. student Danielle Romero (Anthropology), Scott Nicolay, and Roger Anyon published "The Elk Ridge Community in the Mimbres Pueblo World" in the most recent issue of American Antiquity. 
Joshua Chévere Cohen (Black Mountain Institute; English) presented his paper, "Shelley and the Poetics of Crisis and Resistance," at the Boiling Point graduate conference. He will present this paper later this year at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) convention in Ogden, Utah. Other Boiling Point presenters included Tracie…