Professor Linda Lister (Music) has an article published in the September/October 2025 issue of the Journal of Singing titled, "The Prolific Song Output and Seasonal Sehnsucht of Franz Schubert and Taylor Swift." The article juxtaposes the 19th century German lieder composer and the 21st century country/pop songwriter, exploring a common…

Assistant Professor Jung-Hwa Kim (Architecture) served as a jury member for the 22nd National Exhibition of Korean Landscape Architecture student competition on Aug. 7.

Assistant professor Jung-Hwa Kim (Architecture) was invited to present "Rethinking Urban Landscapes in a Changing Climate: The Shifting Culture of Lawns" to the HY-GRIP Project Group for Future Regional Development Researchers at Hanyang University, South Korea, on Aug. 6.

Shaun Franklin-Sewell (Performing Arts Center), director of marketing and patron services, recently earned designation as a certified venue professional from the International Association of Venue Managers. Throughout the year mid-level venue industry professionals receive their Certified Venue Professional (CVP) designation from the…

Two sculptures by assistant visiting professor Aaron Cowan (Art) were accepted to the juried exhibition Nice;03 at the Midwest Nice Art Gallery in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Nice;03 is the third annual national juried exhibition, a survey of contemporary artists exploring complex personal and social narratives. The exhibition assembles over thirty…

Andi Isaacs (Film) presented on the "Lights, Camera, Action: Funding, Filmmaking and Distribution" panel for the Sports, Entertainment & Innovation Conference (SEICon II), at the Bellagio Resort on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.   

The City of Las Vegas purchased artworks from instructors Tim Bavington, Erik Beehn, Krystal Ramirez, and Sean Slattery (all Art) for the new Las Vegas City Civic Center Building and Plaza. Of the 18 new acquisitions, 11 were created by artists with ties to UNLV as instructors and alumni.

Hikmet Loe's (Art) essay, "Composition/Decomposition: Great Salt Lake at the Crossroads" was recently published in the exhibition catalog Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, & the Saline Influx. Accompanying the eponymous exhibition held at Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUU) the essay provides an analysis of how two contemporary…

Kimberly G James (Music) was elected to the board of directors for the Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA) and will serve as the Western Region Governor. PAVA's mission is to advance the scientific and interdisciplinary study of vocalization across species. PAVA fosters vocology in all countries of the Western Hemisphere through research…

Hikmet Loe (Art) presented at Nevada Museum of Art in conjunction with their exhibition "Deep Time - Sea Dragons of Nevada." Her talk, "Robert Smithson's Dinosaurs - There Be Sea Monsters!" centered the artist's life-long fascination with deep time. From early dinosaur drawings influenced by Charles R. Knight to his later correlation of dinosaurs…

Dale Melgaard (Film) has received the Best Short Script award for "The Phatman"  from the International Writer's Journey Film Festival, Istanbul.

The UNLV Jazz Ensemble I received Graduate College Large Jazz Ensemble Outstanding Performance in the 2025 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards. In addition, one of our students in the UNLV Joe Williams Jazz Scholarship Quartet, bassist Ed Lacala, received a Graduate College Outstanding Soloist Award. This competition is considered among the…