Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts

Rebecca Gill (Political Science), with co-editors Nuno Garoupa and Lydia Tiede, have published High Courts in Global Perspective: Evidence, Methodologies, and Findings in the University of Virginia Press "Constitutionalism and Democracy" series.  High Courts in Global Perspective pulls back the curtain on the interlocutors of…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published Ética, Política, y Migración (UACJ Press), which she co-edited with Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda and Roberto Sánchez Benítez. This open access book is one of the first Spanish-language texts to deal with immigration ethics as a central topic, and it foregrounds ethical issues of particular concern…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published an op-ed, "The Texas Ban and Migration Injustice," in Ms. Magazine.
Anne Savage (Art) and Lauren Paljusaj (English) have installed their planned photographic research exhibition in the display cases outside Special Collections entrance on the Library's third floor. "Intimate Nevada" reflects on the hisotry of Southern Nevada through photographs of early settlers and architecture. Accompanying content to the…
Aldo M. Barrita (Psychology) was elected as the student representative chair 2022-23 for the National Latinx Psychological Association. 
Ryan Wirt, Lauren Crew Andrew Ortiz, and Emmanuel Flores (all Neuroscience), Jefferson Kinney (Brain Health), and James Hyman (Psychology) published an article in Communications Biology entitled "Altered theta rhythm and hippocampal-cortical interactions underlie working memory deficits in a hyperglycemia risk factor model of Alzheimer’s…
Jeremy Bowling (Political Science) recently published, "Signaling Woman and Leader: Navigating the Double Bind as a Foreign Policy Decisionmaker" in The Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy along with co-author Courtney Burns of Bucknell University. Bowling and Bucknell examine the role that women chief executives, defense…
Nadia Eldemerdash (Political Science), a doctoral student, was awarded the American Political Science Association's Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Brenna Renn (Psychology) published "Behavior change factors and retention in dietary interventions for older adults: Scoping review" in The Gerontologist. This work, done in conjunction with colleagues and students at the University of Washington School of Nursing, mapped behavior change theories, agents, and techniques in dietary…
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) contributed to the report Minneapolis May Become Ground Zero in the Criminal Justice Debate, written by journalist Glenn Daigon regarding the current debates about "defunding the police" throughout the United States, specifically the Public Safety Charter Amendment under…
Aldo M. Barrita (Psychology) received the 2021 Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. The award provides assistance to a graduate student from an underrepresented background with the cost of conducting research in personality and/or social psychology up to $1,000.
Renato "Rainier" M. Liboro (Psychology) presented on the two ongoing research projects of his Community Health Advocacy for Minority Populations, Immigrants, and Other Newcomers, and their Mental Health (CHAMPION Mental Health) research lab. His talks were titled "Awareness and Knowledge on Aging and HIV-Associated Neurocognitive…