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.

Grace Patrick, Lauren Reyes, and Nicole Short (all Psychology), along with colleagues from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, have published a manuscript titled “Psychometric evaluation of a momentary posttraumatic stress disorder checklist: An ecological…

Joshua Chévere Cohen has joined the College of Liberal Arts dean’s office as assistant director of digital philanthropy. In this role, he is responsible for managing and implementing digital campaigns for fundraising and assisting with donor engagement and retention for the college. He will also assist with storytelling and marketing and…

Christopher D. E. Willoughby (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender and Ethnic Studies) published the essay "A man of his time: Joseph Leidy, racial science, and American anatomy" in Anatomical Sciences Education. Willoughby's essay examines the role of Dr. Joseph Leidy, first president of the American…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) recently appeared on The Last Show with David Cooper podcast to discuss phone addiction, including how problematic smartphone use can become, factors that contribute to compulsive phone use, and strategies for reducing unhealthy patterns of use. The episode, “On Phone Addiction, and How to Break It,” explores the growing…

Professor Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) and doctoral student Claudia Chiang-Frost (Cultural Studies, International Education, and Multicultural Education) published a co-authored book chapter in the edited volume Narrative Knows No Boundaries: Exploring the Claims and Limits of Telling (2026, University Press of…

Ernesto Abel-Santos (Chemistry and Biochemistry), Rochelle Hines (Psychology), Brach Poston (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a $2,189,956 National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 grant, the Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (GRISE), for 2026-31. The…

Dave Beisecker’s (Philosophy) co-edited volume, Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, has been published by Springer, as part of its series, Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (LNCSAI).

Christopher D. E. Willoughby (African American and African Diaspora Studies;Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies) published an essay "The Scientific Construction of Race in Early America" as a chapter of the Oxford Handbook of American Medical History. A part of this 34 chapter history of US medicine, Willoughby examines the rise of the…