In The News: College of Liberal Arts
An investigation by Reporters Without Borders has exposed how Wubianjie Group, a China-based digital marketing company, covertly injected pro-Beijing political messaging into Taiwanese lifestyle Facebook pages reaching tens of millions of users — a pattern corroborated by earlier Taiwanese government and academic research.

A building bears her name—the library at Nevada State University. That’s appropriate. She helped get the school started, but that’s not all.

‘Divorce,’ lawsuits and Supreme Court decisions: Why consolidating Northern Nevada firefighting services could be an uphill battle.

The great room at Walking Box Ranch has been restored to its 1930s heyday, when Hollywood stars Rex Bell and Clara Bow lived there. Just in time for the third anniversary of Avi Kwa Ame’s national monument designation, UNLV’s Public Lands Institute returned the original furnishings — including the couple’s dining table, still marked by hardened gum Bow once tucked beneath her seat.
For the first time, a study has examined the "Tradwife" trend. Instead of the expected "benevolent paternalism," the study leaders encountered enormous devaluation of women.

For decades, the federal government considered marijuana as dangerous a drug as heroin. That changed Thursday when the acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanchard signed an order reclassifying state-licensed cannabis products from schedule I to a far less regulated schedule III. The order does not legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use under federal law, but it does ease some barriers to cannabis research. And that came as very good news for a pair of UNLV scientists.

For decades, the federal government considered marijuana as dangerous a drug as heroin. That changed Thursday when the acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanchard signed an order reclassifying state-licensed cannabis products from schedule I to a far less regulated schedule III. The order does not legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use under federal law, but it does ease some barriers to cannabis research. And that came as very good news for a pair of UNLV scientists.

Outgoing Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones has funneled thousands of dollars through various political action committees in support of his chosen successor.

Fast fashion may be keeping closets full, but it comes with a hidden cost. From water pollution to mountains of waste, globally fast fashion generates roughly 92 million tons of textile waste annually, according to the UN Environmental Program. Experts warn that the way people shop is taking a serious toll on the planet. In the valley, vintage shopping is emerging as a sustainable alternative.
Today, popcorn and the movies are so inextricably linked that it’s hard to imagine a time when the buttery, salty snack wasn’t served at a concession stand in the lobby. But that was actually the case for the first few decades of the movie theater business.
Understanding how people develop habits around viewing adult content can help identify potential psychological risks later in life. Researchers identified three distinct patterns of how adults start viewing sexually explicit material, revealing that establishing a regular habit at a young age is linked to higher rates of mental health struggles. The findings were published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.

Reports of their relegation to the fashion trash heap have been greatly exaggerated. The rules of wearing them have simply changed.
