Alan Simmons (Anthropology) has been awarded a grant from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory. This award will allow him and colleagues to conduct test excavations at probable early (ca. 12,000 years ago) sites in Cyprus.

Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) and Denise Tillery (English) published an article about how climate change deniers make use of social media to circulate climate misinformation. The article is titled, "The Circulation of Climate Change Denial Online: Rhetorical and Networking Strategies on Facebook" and was published in the journal…

Jennifer J. Reed (Sociology) was interviewed for a segment on KVVU-TV, "Exploring Ecosexuality." As the ecosexual movement extends its way through the West to Las Vegas, doctoral candidate Reed shared information from her dissertation research to dispel some of the misunderstandings about the lifestyle of people who identify as ecosexuals.…

Timothy Erwin (English) has lectured recently on Jane Austen's fiction in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Victoria, British Columbia; and Oakland, California, as Traveling Lecturer for the West Region of the Jane Austen Society of North America, and gave an illustrated talk, "A Carracci Venus at the Court of James II and Mary of Modena," in January…

Chris Hudgins, Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts, served as distinguished scholar in residenceat Davidson College, his alma mater, for the Anthony Abbott Honors Program from Jan. 21-23.  Under the umbrella title "From Davidson to Stockholm," Hudgins taught two classes and delivered the Abbott Lecture, "Three Unpublished Film…

Tiffiany Howard (Political Science) has been selected as a finalist for the 2019-2020 Council on Foreign Relations-International Affairs Fellowship. The selection process is highly competitive and the selection committee chooses approximately 10 finalists to be fellows. The program awards a stipend of $100,000.

Jeff Schauer (History) published Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth Century Africa with Palgrave Macmillan. This book recounts the emergence of wildlife policy in eastern and central Africa against the backdrop of colonial conquest, the consolidation of colonial rule, the process of decolonization, and the period of national…

Sara Hunt and Katherine Hertlein (both Medicine) collaborated with Noelle Lefforge and Michelle Paul (both Psychology) on an article that's been published in the Community Mental Health Journal. The article, "A University-Based Transdisciplinary Approach to Mental Health Workforce Shortages," describes UNLV's efforts to train…

Robert Lang, William E. Brown, Jr., (both Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute) and David Damore (Political Science) authored a recent guest commentary published by the Nevada Current titled "Guest Op-Ed: Remediating the Chancellor."

Numerous UNLV Students won awards at the Media Innovation Hackathon sponsored by the Beasley Media Group in collaboration with UNLV at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month. Student teams aimed to generate potential commercial products. Winners include: First Place: Converting Radio Waves to Energy. Matias Allieti (Mechanical…

David Fott (Political Science) wrote a chapter, "John Dewey's Alternative Liberalism," that has been accepted for publication in the second edition of History of American Political Thought, edited by Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga (Lexington Books).

David F. Damore and Michelle Keunzi (both Political Science) are the authors of a paper, "Executive Turnovers in sub-Saharan Africa," that has been accepted for publication in International Area Studies Review. The paper applies competing risks duration analysis to data collected from 47 sub-Saharan African countries between 1960 and 2008, to…