History Department: Michael Green (professor/chair), and Fabian Rebolledo and Connor Young (graduate students) attended the recent Preserve Nevada annual meeting in Ely, Nevada. Green is executive director of Preserve Nevada and Rebolledo is deputy director, and organized the meeting.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Children, Borders, and Adultification" at the Workshop on Migration Justice at Texas State University.

Jesse Fitts (Philosophy) has published the paper, "Relevance in Epistemic Modal Disagreement," in the Synthese Library volume Retraction Matters: New Developments in the Philosophy of Language, edited by  Dan Zeman & Mihai Hîncu. 

Jenna Heath (Liberal Arts) was recognized as one of ten 2025 "Women Inspiring Nevada" honorees. Women Inspiring Nevada, hosted by Greenspun Media, honors a group of remarkable women each year whose work strengthens industries and communities alike. Heath was recognized for her work at UNLV, the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, and Gamma Phi…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published two papers.  The first paper (An exploration of generational status and enculturation as putative protective factors for disordered eating behaviors and cognitions among college students) was published in Eating Behaviors.  The second paper (Problematic Pornography Use,…

James Woodbridge's (Philosophy) co-authored article, "Sentential-Variable Deflationism and Adverbial Quantification," was published (online first) by the journal, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, on May 27, 2025.

James Woodbridge's (Philosophy) co-authored (with Bradley Armour-Garb of SUNY-Albany) book, The Deflationary Approach to Truth: A Guide, was published by Oxford University Press, digitally on July 17, 2025, and in print on Sept. 3, 2025. 

Sidath Kapukotuwa, Ana Gonzalez-Alvarez (Social and Behavioral Health), Shane Kraus (Psychology), and Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Betting on the future: A systematic review of modern gambling interventions for college students” in the Journal of Gambling Studies (Impact factor 2.2).  The…

Jarret Keene (English) participated in a panel called "Writing for Younger Readers" at the Sept. 13 Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl in Reno, Nevada, at the Downtown Reno Library.

Paul W Werth (History) has published a brief, accessible book titled, "How Russia Got Big: A Territorial History" (Bloomsbury Publishers). Covering over 700 years and featuring 29 original maps (in just 150 pages), the book recounts the construction of the world's largest country — from medieval Muscovy to the present war in Ukraine—as well as its…

The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction has selected Simon Gottschalk (Emeritus, Sociology) as the recipient of the George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Accomplishments in Symbolic Interaction. It is presented to a scholar who has made significant contributions to the field of symbolic interactionism and recognizes a scholar's…

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) delivered an invited presentation, "America Encounters the Absolute," at the European Conference on Pragmatism in St. Gallen, Switzerland.