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College of Liberal Arts News

The College of Liberal Arts offers students a well-rounded education in the humanities and social sciences. Students develop strong analytical and communication skills for a lifetime of learning and discovery that can be applied to a wide variety of careers.

Current Liberal Arts News

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Some of the most vibrant headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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The soon-to-be two-time UNLV alumna is helping graduate students find their voice and advocate for themselves.

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UNLV-led study is the first to examine attitudes of men toward the social media housewife trend that calls for return to traditional gender roles.

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Faculty and students from the Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Lab help solve missing persons cases.

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Some of the hottest headlines featuring UNLV faculty, staff, and students.

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Across generations, Rebels share how UNLV served as the setting for their love stories.

Liberal Arts In The News

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A recent study published in Psychology of Women Quarterly suggests that young men who favor the internet subculture known as the tradwife movement tend to hold hostile and patronizing sexist attitudes. The findings provide evidence that the appeal of this lifestyle for men is rooted in a desire for traditional power dynamics rather than a simple preference for a stay-at-home partner.

CBS 58

Earlier this month, Wisconsin lawmakers passed a bill that would expand sports betting in the state by allowing people to make wagers online. Governor Tony Evers will soon have to decide whether to sign the bill into law. Evers has said his decision will hinge on whether the state's 11 tribes with gaming compacts can agree on how to offer online sports betting throughout Wisconsin. In the meantime, a multitude of questions still exist around what online sports betting could mean for Wisconsin.

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Chavez was a widely admired Latino icon who brought to light the struggles of farmhands and led the United Farm Workers union until his death in 1993. Earlier this month, labor rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed she was among multiple women and girls who say they were sexually abused by César Chavez.

New York Times

Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked. The more he learned, the weirder things got.

Nevada Independent

North Las Vegas is the latest battleground in efforts to confirm how long Nevada elected officials are allowed to serve.

ScienceBlog

The image is carefully curated: sourdough cooling on a scrubbed wooden counter, a woman in a floral apron, a husband greeted at the door. The #tradwife movement has attracted millions of followers across TikTok and YouTube since it began gathering momentum during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020, and it presents itself as a domestic idyll, a nostalgic retreat from the grinding complexity of modern life. You might reasonably reckon the men drawn to it are the chivalrous sort. The ones who believe women deserve protecting, cherishing, putting on a pedestal. Turns out, no.

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Recent Liberal Arts Accomplishments

Researchers from the Auditory Cognitive Development Lab and the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Lab co-authored a large-scale study attempting to replicate findings from 164 papers across the social and behavioral sciences. The study showed that only about 50% of findings were replicable, similar to another landmark study about the…
John Curry (History) was a presenter on a roundtable at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) this past weekend. The roundtable was titled "Reactions to Authoritarianism: Connecting the Historical to the Contemporary," and included several UNLV faculty members from various global fields…
Sam Inayat (Psychology; Neuroscience) published an article in Scientific Reports (Springer-Nature) titled “Distinct neural signatures of hippocampal population dynamics during locomotion-in-place.”  The study investigates how brain activity changes during different movement states, focusing on the hippocampus, a region critical for memory,…
Lex de Asis (Psychology) and Adrianna N. Tsao (Biological Sciences; Neuroscience) were named 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholars.The Goldwater Scholarship is the nation’s premier undergraduate award for students pursuing research careers in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics. This year, 1,485 students from 482 institutions were nominated…
Paul Vincent Ruma (Anthropology) presented at the 2026 European Hip Hop Studies Network Conference, “Things Done Changed,” held March 18-21, 2026, at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands. His presentation, “There’s No Book: Master Practitioner Publishing as Breaking’s Knowledge Infrastructure,” examined the gap between embodied cultural…
Jennifer Byrnes (Anthropology) co-authored "Buckle Rib Fractures Are More Than a Pleural Surface Phenomenon: A Case Report and Literature Review" in Forensic Anthropology. Drawing on a literature review and a forensic case example, the authors explore how buckle rib fractures are defined and offer recommendations to practitioners for more accurate…