In The News: College of Liberal Arts

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The legislative session is two weeks away from ending. This year, Nevada made history with the first-ever female majority running the state.

Les Echos

Professor of Fashion History at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, Deirdre Clemente has studied the growing presence of informal clothing in companies in the United States.

Oxford Mail

Now, detective work by an American academic has uncovered the fantasy author’s previously unpublished Clarendon Chaucer, and a new book will reveal his conclusions.

Guardian

The influences on JRR Tolkien’s writings were many, from Norse mythology to Beowulf, the eighth-century poem. Now the extraordinary discovery of his previously unpublished Clarendon Chaucer edition, a project that he abandoned after 30 years, has revealed his masterpieces were also influenced by the medieval author.

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A mother and her son graduated from University of Nevada, Las Vegas together on Saturday.

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A handful of UNLV master's students in Hispanic Studies have been accepted to top doctoral programs over the past two years, including the University of Virginia, UCLA, University of Alabama, University of Chicago, and the University of Kansas.

Associated Press

As Democratic presidential hopefuls hit the ground to woo voters in the early voting state of Nevada, many are touting how closely their home states align with the fast-growing tourist mecca. Few, though, can say it’s where they stop for mom’s home cooking.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Jennifer Reed, sociology Ph.D. student at UNLV, officiated a marriage ceremony at the school’s Pida Plaza between about 15 people and the Earth.

Conversation

I recently attended a large meeting of faculty to discuss graduate students’ evaluation, recruitment and retention.

Marketplace

FOSTA-SESTA is shorthand for two congressional bills: the House’s Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and the Senate’s Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017. As the names suggest, they were designed to reduce sex trafficking.

MENAFN

In a city graced with remarkable architecture, the cathedral of Notre Dame may be Paris' most striking edifice. So when it was engulfed by a fire that toppled its spire, it seemed as if more than a building had been scorched; the nation had lost a piece of its soul.

KNPR News

April 7 was a Sunday. On any other Sunday, Sam Lionel would have been looking forward to going to his office the next day to practice law and possibly argue a case in court. But it wasn’t like any other Sunday because it was Sam Lionel’s one-hundredth birthday. And that, like his life and career, is worth celebrating.