Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) has been selected as an inaugural Philosophy in the Media Fellow with the Marc Sanders Foundation, through which she will focus on long-form magazine article writing.  The MSF Philosophy in Media initiative aims to increase the presence of philosophy in print, audio, and video media by training philosophers to…

Kimberly A. Barchard (Psychology) and Edwin Oh (Medicine) are the recipients of the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) 2021 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in arts and health and natural sciences, respectively.   Each year during the Office of Undergraduate Research Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium, OUR recognizes and honors UNLV…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Socially, Not (Necessarily) Legally Undocumented" for the Lewis & Clark College Philosophy Colloquium (online).

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science)'s research on Taiwanese people's willingness to fight is quoted in the Annual Report To Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The report estimates the risk of potential cross-strait conflict, while Wang's research shows that Taiwanese people perceive their self-defense…

John Curry (History) joined a National Endowment for the Humanities grant application as part of a project team for the "Khataynameh ("Book of China") Translation Project." Headed by Kaveh Hemmat of Benedictine University, the proposal has just been funded at $195,764, and will produce an edited volume, translation and commentary of…

  David Morris,(English) was interviewed by The Nation magazine for an article on Kurt Vonnegut, World War II and PTSD.     

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published "Sight, Hearing and Higher Truths in Cervantine Narrative Structures," in La vida como obra de arte: Essays in Memory of John Jay Allen. Byrne's article looks at the three senses Renaissance Neoplatonists identified as unique, incorporeal conduits leading to…

Matthew Schurr and Brenna Renn (both Psychology) published an open access manuscript entitled, "Artificial Intelligence: An Interprofessional Perspective on Implications for Geriatric Mental Health Research and Care" in Frontiers in Psychiatry. This piece, written with colleagues from the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics (Toronto) and the…

Sonia Dhaliwal (Psychology)  was elected as a Board of Directors member to the Association of Counseling Center Training Agencies.

Elizabeth Johnson, a doctoral student, Arianna Portillo, an undergrad, Nikki Bennett, a graduate student, and Peter Gray (all Anthropology) published "Exploring women's oxytocin responses to interactions with their pet cats." While similar research has investigated oxytocin responses of parents to babies or of people to interactions…

Jeff Schauer (History) participated in "Remembering Kaunda: His Life and Legacies in Southern Africa and Beyond," a conference hosted by the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research (based in Lusaka, Zambia). Kenneth Kaunda (1924-2021) was Zambia's president between 1964 and 1991. Schauer's paper, "Arming Zambia for Africa:…

Nicole Batten, Analiesa Delgago, Alejandra Herrera, and Doris Morgan-Rueda (all History), all graduate students, won the Western History Association Graduate Student Prize, and were honored at the organization's 2021 conference, held recently in Portland, Oregon.