Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) co-authored the article, "US-skepticism and transnational conspiracy in the 2024 Taiwanese presidential election" in HKS Misinformation Review. In this article, Wang and others analyzed the misinformation on social media platforms during the 2024 Taiwanese Presidential Election, and revealed that…

Susan Lee Johnson (History) has been elected to membership in the Society of American Historians, an organization dedicated to literary excellence in writing history and biography. Johnson is the first UNLV faculty member to be invited to join the society. On May 13, 2024, Johnson attended the society's annual dinner in New York City, where…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Impulsivity and diverse forms of sports wagering in the U.S.: An examination of the UPPS-P model," in Addictive Behaviors. 

Robert Futrell (Sociology) was recently featured in articles on far-right extremism: 1) Bellingcat's "Fugitive US Militant Ammon Bundy Geolocated to Utah" and 2) The Las Vegas Weekly's "Radicalized Online: How Digital Rabbit Holes Lead to Violent Extremism."

Ileana Jara Yupanqui (Linguistics), Miriam Melton-Villanueva (History), and Blanca Rincón (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) were selected to receive a 2024 Faculty Opportunity Award (FOA) for project entitled "A Planning Grant for NEH: Mural of Knowledges."

Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was awarded the Elizabeth Woodman Wright Fellowship by the Massachusetts Historical Society. This award helps support a month of research next year in the Historical Society's collections, which Willoughby will use to conduct research for his book project …

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) and undergraduate philosophy majors and minors Gloria Lara, Jenifer Lissett, and Skylar Jones-Speaber, published "Philosophy for Children as Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Lessons from the Las Vegas Philosophy for Children Initiative" in The Routledge Handbook to Public Humanities Scholarship.

Joel Snyder (Psychology), Erin Hannon (Psychology), and Reyna Gordon (Vanderbilt University) published an article titled, "Theoretical and empirical advances in understanding musical rhythm, beat and metre," in Nature Reviews Psychology.

Andrew Kauffman (World Languages and Cultures) published a research article titled, “Anticipatory Self-Martyrdom: The Image of Christ’s Crucifixion in Ai Qing’s Poetry” in the forthcoming issue of the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. The article explores how one of modern China’s most famous poets, Ai Qing, employed crucifixion…

The Associate for Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) has selected Tanya Robertson (English) for the Season 20 Writer to Writer Mentorship Program. AWP's mentorship program, Writer to Writer, matches emerging writers with published authors to work toward the mentees' writing goals. Season 20 of Writer to Writer runs May 6 through July 26…

John Haberstroh (History) participated in an online panel discussion called "AI and Ancient Studies" hosted by the Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA). The panel discussed the intersections of "Artificial Intelligence" with research and pedagogy in Ancient Studies broadly defined.

Timothy Erwin (English) received the 2024 Faculty Award from the UNLV Academic Success Center. He published “Discourses of the Eye: Romeo and Juliet and Hogarth’s Marriage A la Mode” in a recent festschrift, Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment, and presented “Rhetoric, Artifice, and Iconoclasm” at the meeting of the American Society…