Chris L. Heavey

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Executive Vice President and Provost
Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Psychology, Higher Education, Undergraduate Education

Biography

Chris L. Heavey is the executive vice president and provost at UNLV. In this role, he serves as the university's chief academic officer and works closely with the president in overseeing academic and budgetary policies and priorities for the campus.

Heavey is also a professor of psychology whose research focuses on understanding the inner experience and its relationship to mental health. He is one of the nation’s leading scholars in the thoughts and feelings that make up the consciousness of people as they go about their everyday lives. His work has helped shed light on the experiences of people who suffer from mental illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Additionally, Heavey uses the Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES) method to explore the experience of people who share a common feature, such as those suffering from depression, as well as the characteristics and phenomena of normal, unaltered consciousness. Other topics of interest include how inner experience relates to other psychological constructs (e.g., personality, emotional intelligence, etc.), exploring the experience of naturally-occurring emotions, and how methodological variations in procedures used to research inner experience influence findings.

Education

  • Ph. D., Clinical Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • B.A., Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz

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‘There’s no Planet B’: UNLV first Nevada university to launch climate change plan
Las Vegas Review Journal
UNLV became the first school in the Nevada System of Higher Education to launch a plan to address climate change, unveiling it at a kickoff event on Friday afternoon. Known as the Rebel Climate Action Plan (CAP), the document is a roadmap for how the school will meet its goal of slashing its greenhouse gas emissions 50 percent by 2030 and becoming net zero by the university’s 100th birthday in 2057. Net zero refers to a state where the carbon dioxide UNLV is putting into the atmosphere is offset with the amount removed, thus not contributing to warming.
UNLV introduces plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Las Vegas Sun
UNLV is aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2057, officials announced today. UNLV is the first Nevada System of Higher Education institution to launch a climate action plan, UNLV President Keith Whitfield said in a recorded message. Called Rebel CAP, the plan will act as a roadmap for sustainability around campus
First-year UNLV students express confidence in new safety measures on campus
K.S.N.V. T.V. News 3
Monday is the first day of class for students at UNLV. The university welcoming its largest enrollment of more than 32,000 students.
Funding for Nevada higher ed is changing. Here's what it could mean for colleges
K.N.P.R. News
A year ago, an outside consulting firm started looking at Nevada’s higher education funding. Based on their recommendations, the Board of Regents is considering changing how those funds are allocated.
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Undergrad researcher Benjamin Sabir helps H. Jeremy Cho examine an atmospheric water harvesting device. (Jeff Scheid/UNLV)
Campus News | October 1, 2024

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