Cheryl Abbate, Assistant Professor (Philosophy), has been awarded the William Morris Award for Excellence in Scholarship for 2023 by the UNLV College of Liberal Arts.

Brenna Renn (Psychology) published a peer-reviewed manuscript detailing policy to expand the behavioral health workforce, "Behavioral Health Workforce Development in Washington State: Addition of a Behavioral Health Support Specialist," in Psychiatric Services alongside co-authors from the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and…

Andre Chiang (Music) has and will perform with Florida State University Opera, Opera Philadelphia, OperaDelaware, and at home with Opera Las Vegas. Chiang was a late add to sing the Forester in Janáček‘sThe Cunning Little Vixen in Czech on April 5 and 7. He then sings the Commissioner in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with Opera Philadelphia on…

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) has been awarded a grant (R16GM153536) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for her project, "Testing a Dual-Process Mechanistic Model Linking Food Insecurity and Loss-of-Control Eating." Funding of $400,000 in direct costs will support a study examining daily associations between food…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by the University of St. Thomas at Houston to have a talk on April 6, titled "Taiwan’s 2024 Presidential and Legislative Election: Trends from Polls and Election Results" in the conference "The 2024 Taiwanese General Elections and the Next Phase of Trilateral Relationship between Taiwan,…

Carlos Dimas (History) co-organized and co-hosted the inaugural El Laboratorio: Seminar for the History of Latin American Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine that took place on April 11 and April 12 via Zoom. The seminar brought together 10 papers and scholars from the United States, Canada, England, Australia, and Brazil. The panel was…

On April 11, Christopher D. E. Willoughby (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) spoke at the annual meeting of the Health Humanities Consortium. Willoughby was a part of a roundtable on Health Humanities for Humanists, where he discussed the need for humanists to define what constitutes applied health humanities.

John Curry (History) was the guest editor for the most recently-released issue of the World History Bulletin, volume 89:2 (Fall/Winter 2023). The special issue was dedicated to the topic of "Democratizing, Diversifying, and Decolonizing the World History Survey, and in addition to editing and finalizing the slate of six articles in the…

Todd Jennings and Shane Kraus (both Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper (LGBQ-affirming clinical recommendations for compulsive sexual behavior disorder) in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 

Jeff Schauer (History) organized a panel on converging and competing knowledge systems and conservation in southern Africa at the meeting of the American Society for Environmental History in Denver. Schauer's own paper was titled "Tracking Puku: Traditional knowledge, skills, and the crafting of Zambian wildlife science." The paper used the…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Face as a multidimensional construct: Cross-cultural validation of the Loss of Face Scale in Taiwan and the United States," in Asian Journal of Social Psychology. 

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Gambling in a U.S. Census Matched Sample: Examining Interactions between Means and Motives in Predicting Problematic Outcomes," in the Journal of Gambling Studies.