David R. Gruber (Urban Affairs) published a paper titled, "Material foundations of scientific metaphors: A New Materialist metaphor studies." The paper uses a case study from the neurosciences to argue that scholarly discussions of scientific metaphors in the humanities and social sciences must give greater attention to the specific…

Janelle Yasukochi (Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education) and Maria Aladjova (Health Sciences) served as the conference co-chairs, representing Region 9, at the NACADA Region 8, 9, & 10 Conference: Illuminating the Path of Possibilities, recently held in Las Vegas from Feb. 27-March 1. NACADA is the professional association for Academic…

Ashton Ridley (Journalism and Media Studies, KUNV) has been named to the Nevada Broadcasters Association board of directors.

The public radio KUNV 91.5 FM station recently won Beats Magazine's “2022 Smooth Jazz Station Of The Year.” On December 15 of last year, RADIO ONLINE, an outlet that provides the latest radio industry news, brought the news of the announcement to KUNV 91.5. The station is a nonprofit that is currently owned by the Nevada Board of Regents and…

Tara McManus (Communication Studies) published the article, "The moderating effects of goals and plans on received support during emerging adults’ conversations with friends," in Communication Quarterly. The study found that when seeking tangible support (such as asking for money or help with chores or other tasks) from friends, identifying…

Emma Frances Bloomfield and Stephanie S. Willes (both Communication Studies) have published an article titled, "Religious Masking and the Rhetorical Strategies of Digital Anti-Vaccination Churches," in the Western Journal of Communication. The article traces the digital rhetoric of "anti-vaccination churches," which are groups that adopt the…

Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) and Travis Vogan (University of Iowa) have published an article titled, "'Media Industries and Sport Scandals' Redux: Netflix’s Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist," in the International Journal of Sport Communication. The article talks about the recent Netflix documentary on Manti Te…

Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) and Nick Paliewicz (University of Louisville) published a paper, "Of Markets, Masks, and (White) Men: Mimetic Performances of Parasitic Publicity During the COVID-19 Pandemic," in Women's Studies in Communication. The paper argues that the anti-masking and anti-vaccination subreddit community known…

Laura V. Martinez (Communication Studies) and her co-authors Alaina C. Zanin and Sarah J. Tracy from Arizona State University have been named recipients of the Top Paper Award for their work: "Occupational Socialization and Identification in Pain Work: (Re)Conceptualizing the Experience of Pain as an Interactional, Co-constructed Process." The…

Natalie Pennington (Communication Studies) was acknowledged as one of the top 25 researchers within the Communication Studies discipline over the past five years in a recent publication in the journal, Communication Education titled, "Scholarly productivity in communication studies: A five-year review (2017-2021)." In the study, the authors…

Matthew Gyger (Social Work), Stephanie Borene (Educational Outreach), Ramona Denby (Social Work), and Sara Hunt (Medicine), along with Efren Gomez from the University of Michigan and Amanda Klein-Cox from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, co-authored the paper, "Using SBIRT (Screen, Brief Intervention, and Referral to…

The Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies is excited to announce that UNLV's radio station, KUNV (91.5 Jazz)/Las Vegas, won a national award: The 2022 Beats Magazine Smooth Jazz Station Of The Year. The award recognized: Jason Beatty, operations manager Kim Linzy, music director An excerpt from the article announcing the…