Mayumi Ajioka (World Languages and Cultures) received a Laura Bassi Foundation Editorial Grant (Summer 2026) in support of her research on heritage language speakers’ motivation to learn and maintain their heritage language. The grant provides partial support for the preparation of a journal article manuscript for publication.

Grace Patrick, Lauren Reyes, and Nicole Short (all Psychology), along with colleagues from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, have published a manuscript titled “Psychometric evaluation of a momentary posttraumatic stress disorder checklist: An ecological…

Joshua Chévere Cohen has joined the College of Liberal Arts dean’s office as assistant director of digital philanthropy. In this role, he is responsible for managing and implementing digital campaigns for fundraising and assisting with donor engagement and retention for the college. He will also assist with storytelling and marketing and…

Christopher D. E. Willoughby (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender and Ethnic Studies) published the essay "A man of his time: Joseph Leidy, racial science, and American anatomy" in Anatomical Sciences Education. Willoughby's essay examines the role of Dr. Joseph Leidy, first president of the American…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) recently appeared on The Last Show with David Cooper podcast to discuss phone addiction, including how problematic smartphone use can become, factors that contribute to compulsive phone use, and strategies for reducing unhealthy patterns of use. The episode, “On Phone Addiction, and How to Break It,” explores the growing…

Professor Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) and doctoral student Claudia Chiang-Frost (Cultural Studies, International Education, and Multicultural Education) published a co-authored book chapter in the edited volume Narrative Knows No Boundaries: Exploring the Claims and Limits of Telling (2026, University Press of…

Ernesto Abel-Santos (Chemistry and Biochemistry), Rochelle Hines (Psychology), Brach Poston (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a $2,189,956 National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 grant, the Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (GRISE), for 2026-31. The…

Dave Beisecker’s (Philosophy) co-edited volume, Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, has been published by Springer, as part of its series, Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (LNCSAI).

Christopher D. E. Willoughby (African American and African Diaspora Studies;Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies) published an essay "The Scientific Construction of Race in Early America" as a chapter of the Oxford Handbook of American Medical History. A part of this 34 chapter history of US medicine, Willoughby examines the rise of the…

Fatima Suarez's (Sociology) book Latino Fathers: What Shapes and Sustains Their Parenting won the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. 

Brenna Renn and Lilla Brody (both Psychology), along with colleagues from Talkspace and the University of Washington, published a manuscript entitled "Engagement and Outcomes Associated With Message-Based Psychotherapy Among Older and Younger Adults" in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. To our knowledge, this is the first paper…

In collaboration with the Nevada Center for Civic Engagement (NVCCE), the University of Nevada, Reno Center for Constitutional Law hosted educators from across Nevada for the 2026 Summer Teacher Institute at UNR’s Lake Tahoe campus. David Tanenhaus (Law, History) engaged participants in exploring constitutional history, Supreme Court jurisprudence…