Nicolas Barr (Social Work), Steven Pace (Criminal Justice), and Alexandra Slemaker (Criminal Justice) published an article, “Laten Profiles of Psychosocial Risk and Associations with Suicidality in U.S. Military Veterans.” This article appears in Traumatology. Military veterans are at increased risk for suicide compared to civilians. Suicide…

Steven Pace (Criminal Justice), a former FBI supervisory special agent and current UNLV faculty member, will be featured in a forthcoming true-crime documentary detailing one of the largest global takedowns of a transnational criminal enterprise in FBI history. Pace served as the lead FBI case agent on “Operation Money Maker,” a six-year…

Steven Pace (Criminal Justice), assistant professor-in-residence and former FBI supervisory special agent, was recently interviewed on Nevada Public Radio (KNPR) as an expert commentator concerning the health challenges faced by first responders. In the broadcast, he outlined how chronic occupational stress can degrade cardiovascular, immune, and…

Craig Hennigan (Communication Studies) published a chapter in the new book, From a Whisper to a Movement: Investigating the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Whistleblowing and Social Protest, edited by Joshua Guitar and Alan Chu. The chapter, titled "Tragic Responses to Whistleblowing a Tragedy: A Burkean Analysis of the Flint Water…

The Office of the Associate Vice Provost for Student Success is excited to announce the 2024-2025 award winners of the academic advising awards through UNLV and NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising. Learn more about our accomplished colleagues and how they have contributed to the UNLV and academic advising community in this…

Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez (Journalism and Media Studies), with co-authors, was awarded a Top Paper Award (Runner-Up) in the Global Media Division at the 75th Annual Convention of the International Communication Association. There he presented a co-authored paper entitled "Populist Connective Memories: YouTube Users' Reactions to the Coverage of the…

Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez (Journalism and Media Studies) recently published "Laboratory of reaction: SB 17 in Texas, the anti-DEI movement, and implications for higher education" in Communication Education. The article contextualizes recent anti-DEI legislation through an analysis of the think tank networks, its ideological underpinnings,…

A collection of stories by Francis McCabe and Beth DeBouck (both Integrated Marketing & Branding), Afsha Bawany (Urban Affairs), and Natalie Bruzda (Engineering) won a Gold Award in News/Feature Writing in the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education's 2024 Circle of Excellence Competition. The collection related to…

William Epstein (Social Work Emeritus) has a book, Climate Change, Social Inequality, and Doom, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press in September 2025.

Patrick Blennerhassett (Journalism) has published a book on Amazon called "The Death of Birth." Blennerhassett is also completing his master's of journalism and media studies at UNLV and is a full-time journalist at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His book blends mystery, thriller, sci fi and speculative fiction into an action/adventure trilogy.

Aya Shata (Journalism and Media Studies) published an article titled, "Opting Out of AI”: exploring perceptions, reasons, and concerns behind faculty resistance to generative AI," at the Frontiers in Communication. Drawing on Innovation Resistance Theory and using a mixed-methods approach, the study examines faculty resistance to generative AI,…

Aya Shata's JOUR 433 IMC Competition class students (Journalism and Media Studies) at UNLV earned a Gold ADDY Award at the 2025 American Advertising Federation Awards. The 2024 student team was recognized for their campaign titled “Ride the Cold Wave,”  a comprehensive, multi-touchpoint IMC campaign for a real-world client,…