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…

Dale Melgaard (Film) has received an "Official Selection" at the Istanbul International Short Film and Writer's Journey Festival for the screenplay, The Phatman.

DMA oboe student and P.T.I. Nicholas Carozza (Music) is heading to Colorado for a sold out performance at the Saddlehorn Amphitheater on the Colorado National Monument for National Parks week. Nick will perform with Justin G. Russell Jr. on double bass. The duo will perform music from the renaissance to modern day, including a world premiere by…

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) delivered the keynote address at Baldwin Wallace University's 2025 Bach Festival, held in Berea, Ohio. This annual celebration of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries spans three-days, including concerts, lectures, symposia, and exhibitions of archival materials from the Riemenschneider Bach…

Javon Johnson (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies), associate professor of African American Studies and renowned poet, began coaching a slam poetry team in Las Vegas in January 2025 and, in March 2025, the team won its first major poetry slam tournament in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Dale Melgaard (Film) has received the "Best Script" award for The Phatman at the Kaliburagi International Film Festival.

Katrina Liu (Teaching & Learning) and Richard Miller (Music), together with UNLV alumna Lei Ping (Ph.D., 2025) and Christopher R. Crowley from Wayne State University recently published "Testing the Limits of the Practical: Using van Manen’s Framework to Support Prospective Teachers’ Critical Reflection for Transformative Learning" in the…

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) performed as a guest artist at the Arizona Bach Festival in Phoenix. Lee, a harpsichordist, joined soloists from across the country in a program of concertos in the Vivaldian tradition.

A book review by Professor Germán Garrido (City University of New York) in Theatre Research International praises Stefano Boselli's (Theatre) recent monograph, Actor-Network Dramaturgies: The Argentines of Paris: “As its title anticipates, Boselli’s book leverages ANT (actor-network theory) to navigate the rhizomatic network of Argentine theatre…

Stefano Boselli (Theatre) presented his paper, “Nomadic Comics from Page to Performance: Copi’s Irreverent Characters as Staged by Alfredo Arias and Les Lucioles,” at the 45th Annual Mid-America Theatre Conference, held in Atlanta, GA, from March 6 to 8, 2025. Boselli’s paper examined the intersection of comics and theatre in the work of Argentine…

Amy Brown (Music) presented at the Computer Using Educators (CUE) Conference in Palm Springs, California, over spring break. The session's title was "AI and Music: Exploring Creativity and Pedagogy." Participants used AI to create cognitive integrated song parodies to reinforce specific learning intentions in their English Language Arts, Math…