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Greenspun College of Urban Affairs News

The Greenspun College of Urban Affairs is committed to creating contemporary solutions for resilient communities. Our academic programs focus on making effective public policy, creating support structures to meet behavioral and mental health challenges, ensuring cities are safe and prepared to meet emergency situations, effective and ethical journalism, and interpersonal and public communication strategies.

Current Urban Affairs News

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People |

For the Patrick T. Smith Achievement in Service honoree, offering a helping hand to those in need isn’t an obligation — it’s a way of life.

Ali Caliendo
People |

Urban Affairs Alumna of the Year founded Foster Kinship to support relatives raising children in foster care. The nonprofit has since helped nearly 24,000 Nevada children.

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Campus News |

This class helps students appreciate and understand cultural differences to find common ground.

Tammi Tiger
People |

The director of UNLV's Tribal Education Initiative has been named the Graduate College Alumna of the Year for her work expanding opportunities for Indigenous students.

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Campus News |

A selection of prominent headlines featuring UNLV experts from July and August.

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People |

From advancing their professions to improving the lives of others, this year’s honorees are putting their expertise to work in ways that reflect the values and experiences they gained at UNLV.

Urban Affairs In The News

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

UNLV is restoring RebelFolio, an online media platform run by students featuring their stories as they prepare for their future careers.

Social Work Today Magazine

Identify anxiety early to help children succeed.

New York Times

Highly trained service members have been put on paid leave for nearly a year as they wait for the military to decide their fate.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

A federal judge has ruled the Clark County ordinance that bans stopping on pedestrian bridges along the Las Vegas Strip can stay in place.

Nevada Independent

How campaigns are leveraging the power of influencers this cycle and a look at spending in local government races.

Nevada Independent

More voters get their news from social media influencers than ever before. Attorney General Aaron Ford’s campaign has launched a program to get their attention.

Urban Affairs Experts

An expert in privacy and disclosure in online communications.
An expert on policy communication and the use of technology in government, particularly artificial intelligence (AI).
A licensed clinical social worker specializing in trauma treatment.
An expert on remote health policy, eHealth literacy, and health disparities in rural communities.
An expert in public policy and governance.
An expert in regional demographics, workforce development, and sustainable economic development.

Recent Urban Affairs Accomplishments

Stephen Bates (Journalism and Media Studies) published “Hemingway’s Vendetta” in The New Yorker. The article explores the one-sided literary rivalry between Ernest Hemingway and Barnaby Conrad, a young novelist and amateur bullfighter, in the 1950s.
Darin Mains (Medicine), project director of the Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Project, presented “2024 Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Report” at the 2026 Nevada Traffic Safety Summit in Reno, Nevada on October 14th. Co-authored with Deborah Kuhls, Kavita Batra, Setareh Zarei, and Grace Gonzalez Caballero (all Medicine);…
Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) presented a poster on “How can research in and through the arts challenge the norm-reproducing logic of generative AI systems?” at the October 2026 Ethics, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) conference AI—Hype, Hope, and Humanity hosted by Rotterdam’s Erasmus University. The project used a scoping review…
Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies) published Managing Corporate Scandal: A Communication Approach (Routledge). The book explores the multiple communication challenges and opportunities companies encounter when faced with a scandal to create a holistic view of why scandals occur and how readers can join organizations as…
Jihyun Kang (Communication Studies) and co-authors Joris Van Ouytsel and Steve Corman published a paper titled “Communicating Evolving Vision in Early-Stage Startups: From Founder Intent to Employee Engagement” in the Journal of the International Council for Small Business. The article examines how founders of early-stage startups communicate…
Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) published an article titled, "Tensions of In/fertility and Identity: A Rhetorical Autoethnography of Environmentalism, Motherhood, and Womanhood" in the Quarterly Journal of Speech. The article examines the author's personal experiences with infertility as a vehicle to reflect on rhetorical…