Deanne Sole (Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art) will present a talk on the museum's art writing publication, Dry Heat, at the Nevada Museum Association's annual conference, Preserving Common Ground. The conference takes place at Springs Preserve in Las Vegas from Sept. 27-29, 2023. 

A new edition of a well-known undergraduate textbook in Denmark titled, "Retorik: Teori og Praksis," [Rhetoric: Theory & Practice] has been published with a chapter dedicated to Visual Rhetoric written by David R. Gruber (Communication Studies). The book was edited by Charlotte Jorgensen and Lisa Villadsen and will be widely used across…

Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) and co-author Samantha Senda-Cook (Creighton University) won the 2023 Oravec Journal Article Award in Environmental Communication for their article titled, "Building Coalitions from Shared Pieties: Polyvocal Religious Environmentalism at the Asian Rural Institute," which was published in the …

Linda Dam (Journalism and Media Studies) and Carolyn A. Lin and Xihui Wang (both University of Connecticut) have published an article titled, "TikTok Videos and Sustainable Apparel Behavior: Social Consciousness, Prior Consumption and Theory of Planned Behavior," in Emerging Media. The study explores the role of social media in promoting…

Professor Ruben J. Garcia (Law) gave a lecture to the employees of the National Labor Relations Board (up to 1200 invited) online during the agency's commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month on Sept. 26, 2023. Garcia followed remarks by board chairman Lauren McFerran, appointed by President Biden in 2020, and NLRB General Counsel Jennifer…

Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) published a co-edited book titled, New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism: Critical Perspectives (Routledge). This book puts defenders of new omnivorism and advocates of strict veganism into conversation with one another to further important debates in food ethics. The contributors debate whether it’s…

Asma Awan, program manager, and Manoj Sharma, professor and chair, (both Social and Behavioral Health) presented a paper at the Aging & Social Change: Thirteenth Interdisciplinary Conference, on Sept. 15, 2023, at Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy. The paper was titled, “Prevalence of correlates of the multi-theory…

Professors Benjamin Edwards and Rachel Anderson presented on panels at the 2023 Summit for Corporate Governance. Dean Leah Chan Grinvald and Edwards gave opening remarks at the summit.  Edwards was on a panel entitled, "A Board Situation - Bringing the Team Together to Address a Corporate Crisis." Anderson was part of a panel entitled, "…

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Marketing and Communications Department is proud to announce they have won two Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) Health+Wellness Design Awards™ for 2023. GDUSA, greatly respected in the world of graphic design, has been a source of news and information for designers and the broader creative community for 60…