Ph.D. student Alexis Rice (Psychological and Brain Sciences program) has been selected as a mentor and scholarship recipient for the Grad Rebel Advantage Program for the 2026–27 academic year. Through the program, Rice will mentor a cohort of 11 UNLV students as they navigate the graduate school application process, providing guidance on exploring…

John Hay (English) published an essay titled “On ‘Derek,’ Captain Ahab’s Evil Half Brother” in The Paris Review. This piece draws attention to the centennial of The Sea Beast (1926), the first film adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.

Katie Singsank (Psychology), a clinical psychology doctoral student, was selected as one of four graduate students nationally for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s 2026 Psychology Student Mentorship Program. The program provides specialized training in the neuropsychological care of individuals with multiple sclerosis, with an emphasis on…

Doctoral student Hoor Ul Ain, alumna Melanie Garcia, and Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) recently published a paper in Journal of American College Health on the relationship between university belongingness and eating disorder symptomatology in Muslim university students. Using archival data from the Healthy Minds Study, Ain found that sense…

Shane W. Kraus (Psychology) recently co-authored three publications examining emerging issues in mental health, compulsive sexual behavior, and sexual media use. In a new integrative review (Ketogenic therapy as a potential novel treatment approach for PTSD: an integrative review and proposed mechanistic model) published in Frontiers in…

Gabriela Oré Menéndez (Anthropology) published an article titled "Slow, Digital, Immersive, Accessible: A Crip Studies–Centered Framework for Inclusive Archaeological Practice" in the journal Advances in Archaeological Practice from Cambridge University Press. In her article, Oré Menéndez draws on crip theory and intersectional disability…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation on her recent book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Camisha Fagan (Sociology) defended her dissertation proposal on September 8, 2026. She is now All But Dissertation status. 

Ph.D. student Stephanie A. Torres (Anthropology) published a co-authored case report titled, "An Unusual Taphonomic Case Report of Human Skeletal Remains in an Urban Aqueduct" in the American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology. The case report details the plastic deformation and creep rupture exhibited by remains that were…

Whitney Koo's (English) second book of poetry, CRY SOWER, won the University of Utah Press' 2026 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. Along with a $1,000 award, the book will be published in Spring 2027, and Koo will read for the University of Utah's Guest Writers Series.

Margarita Jara (World Languages & Cultures), along with professor Pilar Valenzuela (Chapman University), presented their research paper, "Construcciones Posesivas en Español Peruano Amazónico," at the Latin American Association of Linguistics and Philology conference (ALFAL 2026) held at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in…

Katherine Walker (English) published her book, Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage with Edinburgh University Press.