Sergio Guzman (World Languages and Cultures) recently presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The session  How is My New OER Textbook Working Out? was based on SPAN 126, a course Guzman developed specially for UNLV. 

Timothy Erwin (English) recently published an essay, “Discours sur l’Œil: Roméo et Juliette et Marriage A-la-Mode de William Hogarth,” in the Actes des Congrès de la Société Française Shakespeare.  He argues that the 18th-century graphic artist follows Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy in his best-known series of engravings. On behalf of…

Buddha Dawn (Medicine) co-authored a chapter, “The Structural Basis of Histone Modifying Enzyme Specificity and Promiscuity: Implications for Metabolic Regulation and Drug Design” in the book series Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology (Protein Design and Structure; Ed: Rossen Donev). This study identified several small…

Mary Blankenship (The Lincy Institute, Brookings Mountain West, Economics, Chemistry) recently had her research on Twitter posts featured in a Las Vegas Review-Journal story and on a City Cast Las Vegas podcast episode. She collects and studies varying public responses on Twitter that occur after a mass shooting. After reviewing tweets…

Jenna Heath (Liberal Arts), Sam Leif (Summer Term) and alumna Kass Moore recently published "The Power and Perseverance of Liberal Arts Internships During COVID-19" in the International Journal of Smart Education and Urban Study. This study aims to show the early mixed-methods survey results from shifting an internship program within a…

Janson Trieu, Mark Chang, Vanessa Rojas, Neilmegh Varada, Yen Cao, Michael Anderson, and Nicholas Vogelzang (all Medicine) published "Lower Fracture Rates in Patients Treated with Radium-223, Abiraterone or Enzalutamide, When Given Concurrently with Bone Health Agents: A Real World Analysis" in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Genitourinary…

Dan Lee (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Permeable Boundaries: The Interplay between Major Party Primaries and Non-major Party Candidacies," in Party Politics. A theoretical model of candidate entry shows how competitive primary elections can funnel candidates to instead pursue the non-major party route onto the general…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) recently appeared on KTNV Channel 13 Action News to weigh in on the controversy over Eighth Judicial District Judge Erika Ballou's comments on the police. Parry opposes the Las Vegas Police Protective Association's call for Ballou to resign over her remarks. He is part of the IGES…

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) published a book of poetry, Homelandless, (Publishing House of Oleg Fedorov, Kiev, Ukraine, June 2022). She also published a selection of poetry about war in Ukraine in The New World  magazine (Toronto, Canada). Additionally, she participated in the No War: Poets Against the War …