John Haberstroh (History) led a round-table discussion on "Chatting about ChatGPT: Wisdom, Worries, and Warnings," which covered pedagogical strategies for Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association's annual meeting at CSU Northridge on Aug. 11, 2023. This discussion sought to clarify the…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by US Embassy in Singapore and Singapore Press Club to give a talk on misinformation and US-China relations on August 14. In this talk, Wang shared his recent findings on the effect of misinformation and fact-checks, and illustrated the conflict between the freedom of speech and…

Stewart Chang (Law) was part of a panel discussion and Q&A session with Nevada State Senator Rochelle Nguyen and activist David Kakishiba on August 15 at The Beverly Theater after a screening of Free Chol Soo Lee. The movie tells the story of Chol Soo Lee who was sentenced to life for a 1972 San Francisco murder, and then a death sentence…

Stephen Caplan's (Music) article, "Eviter la Perte Auditive," was recently published in La Lettre du Hauboïste, the journal of the Association Française du Hautbois. This is a translation of Caplan's article, "Avoiding Hearing Loss," which was published in 2022 in The Double Reed.

Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies), recent Journalism and Media Studies MA graduate Kia Cummings, Richard Johnson (Arizona State University), and Miles Romney (BYU) published a paper titled, "The Rinaldi frame: the NCAA, College Gameday, and the commodification of Black hardship," in the academic journal Sport in Society. This study…

Dr. Moni Ahmadian, D.M.D. and Dr. Jean C. Shen, D.M.D. (both Dental) co-authored and presented "Dentoalveolar Manifestations as the Presenting Sign of Gardner Syndrome" as a poster in 2023 annual American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (AAOMP) meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Their abstract reported the oral and radiographic…

David G. Schwartz (Ombuds) recently published a post on From the Ombuds, the official blog of UNLV's Ombuds Office. This week's column, "Preparing: Making Useless Plans, or Considering Multiple Possibilities?," shares some thoughts on what preparing means for big and small things. For more information about the Ombuds Office,…

The Disability Resource Center (DRC) is proud to announce that Bryan Hilbert, DRC director, has been appointed to a three-year term on the  Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) Board of Directors. Founded in 1977, AHEAD is the foremost professional organization serving over 4,000 disability resource professionals in all 50…

Sarah Quigley (Libraries) was elected to the 2023 Nominating Committee of the Society of American Archivists. Nominating Committee members are responsible for creating the slate of candidates from which SAA’s elected leadership is selected.