James Hyman (Psychology) delivered an invited talk,  "ACC Ensembles Link Actions and Outcomes to Predict Future Events," at the Computational Properties of Prefrontal Cortex Workshop in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier this month.   

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) has been awarded the credential of certified medical interpreter in Spanish by the National Board of Medical Interpreters. This the second credential of the two national exams for medical interpreting that she has been awarded.

Rochelle Walker (Fine Arts) and Samantha Carroll (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) created Living Your Best Life: Balancing School, Work, and Family Summit. It was created out of a graduate multicultural course project within the higher education leadership program. The goal was to provide UNLV student-parents a positive and…

Tim Gauthier (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) published "Conceptual Confusion: The Ambiguities of the War on Terror in Roy-Bhattacharya's The Watch and O'Hagan's The Illuminations" in Terrorism and Literature (Cambridge University Press).

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, "Los Tres Sentidos Incorpóreos en el Persiles," during the 2018 Cervantes Society of America conference, held at the University of Calgary, Canada, last month.

David J. Morris (English) will be taking part in a New York Times panel at UC San Diego on Oct. 4. The webcast panel, "Hollywood and The Artist's Gaze on Vets," includes C.J. Chivers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, and Jason Hall, the screenwriter of American Sniper.

Susan Byrne (World Languages) was an invited guest for a celebration of International Hispanism, organized by the foundation Duques de Soria, earlier this month. Fifty-eight invited Hispanists from 35 countries participated in the events, held in the Casa de las Americas, the Real Academia de la Lengua Española and the Palacio de El Pardo in…

Deborah Arteaga (World  Languages) has been certified as a medical interpreter (Spanish-English) by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters.  

David Morris (English) was quoted in a column, "The Brett Kavanaugh Case Shows We Still Blame Women for the Sins of Men,"  by Rebecca Solnit in The Guardian about PTSD and sexual assault survivors.

Marta Soligo (Sociology and International Gaming Institute) is the author of an article about the #MeToo McDonald’s protest that took place in 10 U.S. cities Tuesday, Sept. 18. The article, which was written for the Italian website Ytali, discusses the first strike in more than a century related to sexual harassment in the workplace, and…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) served as a jury member to determine the winner of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute's Translation Prize. The award ceremony to recognize prize winner Allen Young for best translation into English of a Spanish novel published between 2010 and 2017 and to award a second prize for…

William Bauer (History and American Indian Alliance) presented a paper, "California Indians and the Legacies of American Violence," at "The Law and Politics of Commemoration: The Legacy of Serranus Hastings," held at the UC Hastings College of Law earlier this month in San Francisco.