Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) and Joseph Ervin (Academic Success Center) recently published their article, "American Hegelianism and its Impact on Indian Boarding School Policy," in Hegel Bulletin. The article is part of a special issue devoted to Racism and Colonialism in Hegel, which will be the subject of a special panel and workshop sponsored by…

Teddy Uldricks (History) presented a research paper on "Did the Wehrmacht Use Rape as a Weapon of War on the Eastern Front" at the annual meeting of the Society for Military History in Arlington, Virginia.

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published the article, "Strategic Ambiguity, Strategic Clarity, and Dual Clarity," in Foreign Policy Analysis. In this article, Wang and others conducted a survey experiment to examine the underlying psychological assumptions behind the strategy ambiguity policy that the US designed for handling…

Michael Green (History; Honors) was elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society, based in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a national research library and learned society founded in 1812.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) directs the Las Vegas Pre-College Philosophy Initiative, which was recently profiled in The Nevadan and the Las Vegas Review Journal en Español. The coverage focused on a new collaboration between the pre-college philosophy program and UNLV Preschool. Reed-Sandoval, Claire Tredwell (Early Childhood,…

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) recently won the Medical University of South Carolina Zucker Institute for Innovation Commercialization Pitch Day competition for her program to support people with eating disorders on treatment waitlists. Christensen Pacella is participating in the MUSC CREW program (NIGMS) to support the development of women…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published an op-ed titled, "Claudia Sheinbaum at the Intersection of Sexism and Antisemitism" in the Orange County Register.

Christopher Kearney (Psychology) was awarded Fellow status by the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 53 of the American Psychological Association).  This honor is awarded to those who are already a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and who have made outstanding and extraordinary contributions to the…

Brenna Renn (Psychology) published a peer-reviewed manuscript detailing policy to expand the behavioral health workforce, "Behavioral Health Workforce Development in Washington State: Addition of a Behavioral Health Support Specialist," in Psychiatric Services alongside co-authors from the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and…

Andre Chiang (Music) has and will perform with Florida State University Opera, Opera Philadelphia, OperaDelaware, and at home with Opera Las Vegas. Chiang was a late add to sing the Forester in Janáček‘sThe Cunning Little Vixen in Czech on April 5 and 7. He then sings the Commissioner in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with Opera Philadelphia on…

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) has been awarded a grant (R16GM153536) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for her project, "Testing a Dual-Process Mechanistic Model Linking Food Insecurity and Loss-of-Control Eating." Funding of $400,000 in direct costs will support a study examining daily associations between food…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by the University of St. Thomas at Houston to have a talk on April 6, titled "Taiwan’s 2024 Presidential and Legislative Election: Trends from Polls and Election Results" in the conference "The 2024 Taiwanese General Elections and the Next Phase of Trilateral Relationship between Taiwan,…