Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "When We Die, We Become Muertos: Children's Philosophical Perspectives on Death in Tianguistengo, Hidalgo," in the Journal of Mexican Philosophy.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) participated in a symposium session titled, "Decolonizing Philosophy for Children," at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society.

Yen-Ling Chen and Shane Kraus (both Psychology) recently published two papers.  The first paper, "A Machine-Learning Approach to Assess Factors Associated With Hospitalization of Children and Youths in Psychiatric Crisis," was published in Psychiatric Services.  The second paper, "Assessing compulsive sexual behavior disorder: The…

Timothy Erwin (English) presented an illustrated paper, “The Discourse of the Eye: Romeo and Juliet and Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode,” at the 53rd annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in St. Louis, MO. He also chaired the panel “New Light on Samuel Johnson," hosting Prof. Brandon Schneeberger, a…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper titled, "Spain's Laws (and Literature) on Gypsies," at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, held this year in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Can Borders Be Feminist?" at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique (Center for Research on Ethics) in Montreal, Canada. 

Over the weekend of March 11-12, Susan Lee Johnson (History) gave lectures about the book Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West for the Tesoro Cultural Center's Historic Lectures Series. The Tesoro Cultural Center is a non-profit affiliated with The Fort Restaurant near Denver, and lecturers speak both at The Fort and at…

Nicole Short (Psychology) was awarded a five-year Career Development award by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (1K23DA054299-01A1; total to be awarded $787,634). This award will allow her to test the initial efficacy of and mechanisms underlying a new digital therapeutic she developed to prevent the development of posttraumatic stress disorder…

Janelle Yasukochi (Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education) and Maria Aladjova (Health Sciences) served as the conference co-chairs, representing Region 9, at the NACADA Region 8, 9, & 10 Conference: Illuminating the Path of Possibilities, recently held in Las Vegas from Feb. 27-March 1. NACADA is the professional association for Academic…

Todd L. Jennings, Yen-Ling Chen, Bailey M. Way, and Shane Kraus (all Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Associations between online dating platform use and mental and sexual health among a mixed sexuality college student sample," in Computer in Human Behavior. 

Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed by journalist Rachel Moore of KTNV Channel 13 in Las Vegas about the history and value of Black Studies programs in American higher education, and how the African American and African Diaspora Studies Program at UNLV is…

Barbara Roth (Anthropology) has published a book, Households on the Mimbres Horizon, with the University of Arizona Press. The book is based on her excavations at La Gila Encantada, a Pithouse period (AD 550-1000) archaeological site located in southern New Mexico.