Christopher Edwards (College of Liberal Arts Advising Center) recently presented on the importance of equity, representation, and inclusion within academic advising at the 2026 NACADA Region 8/9 Conference in San Diego, California. The session, titled "We're Here Too," examined... the lived experiences of Men of Color — particularly Black queer…

Aude Picard (Life Sciences) and Cheyenne Brokaw (Law) and master's student Patrice Boyd (English) recently published a research article in the journal Geobiology, titled: "Membrane Vesicle Formation Removes Iron Sulfide Mineral Crusts From the Cell Surface of Growing Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria." In this project, funded by NSF EPSCoR, the team…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) and others published an article, "The People's Liberation Army's Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence Highlighting Integration as Key to "Intelligentization" Goals", with RAND Corporation. This article analyzes how China's PLA introduced and integrate AI into its equipment and operation through an…

Fatima Suarez's (Sociology) book, Latino Fathers: What Shapes and Sustains Their Parenting, received honorable mention for the 2026 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association Race, Gender, and Class Section.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published an op-ed titled "The US Immigration Workforce is Overwhelmingly Latino. The Reasons Why Are Rooted in History" in The Hill.

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…

John Curry (History) presented a paper at a three-part symposium held at the University of California, Los Angeles, entitled "Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia, 1600–1800: Joseph Fletcher’s Plane Ride Revisited." The three-part symposium aimed to compare the three major empires of the Ottomans, Qing China, and the Mughal…