On Sept. 27, Susan Lee Johnson (History) shared a Denver stage with librarian and genealogist Charlene Garcia Simms to discuss the life of nuevomexicana Josefa Jaramillo as part of History Colorado's "Bold Women. Change History." lecture series.

Andre Chiang, DMA, PAVA-RV (Music - Voice) presented a workshop at the Hybrid Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA) Symposium. The workshop was titled, "Opening the Lower Range for Voice Users Using the 'Moan'." The audience for the symposium is international in scope and appeals to all vocology adjacent fields such as speech-language…

Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute, Hospitality) and Alan Feldman (International Gaming Institute) were awarded a charitable grant from ESPN/Walt Disney Company to study, educate, and advise the global community on aspects of sports betting and the media. Research will underpin evidence-based recommendations for responsibly…

Sherry Bell and Renato (Rainier) M. Liboro (both Psychology) recently published their article, "Employing Dissonance-Based Interventions to Promote Health Equity Utilizing a Community-Based Participatory Research Approach and Social Network Analysis," in the Social Sciences journal. This article examines and advocates for the consideration of…

UNLV’s Couple and Family Therapy Program (CFT), was well represented at the third annual American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists research conference in Provo, Utah. The theme for this year’s conference was "Expanding Our Reach: Engaging Underrepresented Groups in Systemic Research." Faculty members Sara Jordan and Vaida Kazlauskaite…

Published by Nevada Public Radio, Desert Companion magazine praised Jarret Keene's (English) dystopian novel Hammer of the Dogs (University of Nevada Press, 2023) in the October 2023 issue. The review describes Dogs as "masterfully capturing the anxiety of younger generations faced with inheriting (and fixing) a world they might not even want."…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Effectiveness of long-lasting insecticidal nets with pyriproxyfen-pyrethroid, chlorfenapyr-pyrethroid, or piperonyl butoxide-pyrethroid versus pyrethroid only against malaria in Tanzania: final-year results of a four-arm, single-blind, cluster-randomised…

Sara Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues at Kansas State University, recently published "The Long-term Effects of a Low-FODMAP Diet for Irritable Bowel Syndrome Management" in Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 7, Issue 10, October 2023, 101997.

Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) delivered an invited talk to the Brigham Young University School of Communications in Provo, Utah, on Sept. 21, 2023. The talk was titled," Kū Kiaʻi Kahuku: Civic Rhythms and the Knitting of Hearts and Minds."