Paul Vincent Ruma (Anthropology) co-authored These Are the Breaks! (Scholars of Style, 2025), a practitioner-led book on Hip Hop culture and cultural preservation, documenting the life and impact of world-renowned DJ and breaking champion Lino “Lean Rock” Delgado.

In a recent cover story called "Sin City Screams: A Guide to Halloween Thrills in Vegas," Neon magazine, the Las Vegas Review-Journal's entertainment publication, praised Gateways to Annihilation, the new story collection by Jarret Keene (English): "The only thing that’ll outpace your fast-beating heart while reading this one will…

Jenna Heath (Liberal Arts) and Lauren Gatto (Academic Affairs) presented "Institutionalizing Life Design to Support Students in Transition" at 2025 "Students in Transition" conference hosted by University of South Carolina.  The presentation addressed how UNLV embedded Life Design principles across campus to support students in transition,…

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.