On February 7, 2024, Shane Kraus (Psychology) was part of an expert panel, Sports Betting and Gambling Addiction, hosted by SciLine and American Association for the Advancement of Science.  

Teddy Uldricks (History) presented a virtual lecture on "Soviet Foreign Policy during the World War II" to faculty and students at the University of Montreal (Canada) on 7 February 2024.

Graduate students Richard Chang and Aldo M. Barrita, along with their faculty advisor Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt, (all Psychology) published an encyclopedia entry titled, "Race (Racism)," in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition. 

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Compulsive sexual behavior disorder: The importance of research on women," in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 

Michelle Tusan (History) published “Lausanne’s Legacy or How not to end a War” for the Council for Global Cooperation.

Taylor Flaherty and Jennifer Byrnes (both Anthropology) published an article titled, "Technical Note: Individuals identified by radiographic comparison: A sample of demographics and the region of body used for identification in Clark County, Nevada, USA (2017–2020)," in Forensic Science International.

Katherine Gaddis, Katharine Woollen, Liam Johnson, Taylor Flaherty, and Jennifer Byrnes (all Anthropology) published a new article titled, "A structural vulnerability approach to older adult suicides: Trends and potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Clark County, NV (2017–2021)." This paper was published in Forensic Science…

Jeff Schauer (History) published "Arming Zambia in the Dark Forest of International Politics: Kenneth Kaunda, Britain, and Arms Diplomacy, 1963-1971," in the first of two special issues of the Zambia Social Science Journal dedicated to assessing the life and legacy of the late-Kenneth Kaunda (1924-2021), president of Zambia between 1964…

Gary Totten (English) presented the keynote address, "Edith Wharton's Geographical Imagination: Notes from the Travel Writing," at an online event celebrating U.S. writer Edith Wharton's 162nd birthday, hosted by the Transatlantic Literary Women project at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the Edith Wharton Society. In his talk, Totten…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues from the International Sex Survey recently published a paper, "Cross-cultural validation and measurement invariance of anxiety and depression symptoms: A study of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) in 42 countries," in the Journal of Affective Disorders. 

Jarret Keene (English), author of the dystopian adventure novel, Hammer of the Dogs, was interviewed by Beyond Thought, the undergraduate creative arts journal based at UNLV. You can read the interview, written by Leonard Brattoli (English), on the journal's blog by clicking here.

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) published a new article, "Weight bias internalization is positively associated with insomnia symptom severity in young women with disordered eating," in Sleep Health. Christensen Pacella and colleagues (lead author Kelsie Forbush, Ph.D., University of Kansas) published "Integrating 'Lumpers' Versus 'Splitters…