Robert Lang, William E. Brown, Jr., (both Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute) and David Damore (Political Science) authored a recent guest commentary published by the Nevada Current titled "Guest Op-Ed: Remediating the Chancellor."

Numerous UNLV Students won awards at the Media Innovation Hackathon sponsored by the Beasley Media Group in collaboration with UNLV at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month. Student teams aimed to generate potential commercial products. Winners include: First Place: Converting Radio Waves to Energy. Matias Allieti (Mechanical…

David Fott (Political Science) wrote a chapter, "John Dewey's Alternative Liberalism," that has been accepted for publication in the second edition of History of American Political Thought, edited by Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga (Lexington Books).

David F. Damore and Michelle Keunzi (both Political Science) are the authors of a paper, "Executive Turnovers in sub-Saharan Africa," that has been accepted for publication in International Area Studies Review. The paper applies competing risks duration analysis to data collected from 47 sub-Saharan African countries between 1960 and 2008, to…

Anthony Jordan (’18 Ph.D. Political Science) and John P. Tuman (Political Science) published an article titled "Explaining Expulsions of U.S. Diplomatic Personnel from Latin America, 1991-2016," in Latin America Policy, volume 9, no. 2, 2018.

David Damore (Political Science) and Robert Lang (Public Policy) hosted a colloquium on behalf ofThe Lincy Institute at UNLV, "Higher Education Reform: A Time for Action." The event featured research on Nevada higher education governance and system administration reform, with presentations from professors , executive…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) recently coauthored "Would Taiwan Fight China Without U.S. Support?" on The National Interest. The article presented the results of representative survey experiments to estimate how numerous factors influence Taiwanese people's willingness to fight.

Tiffiany Howard (Political Science), Mary-Ann Winkelmes (Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs), and Marya Shegog (Environmental and Occupational Health) are the authors of "Transparency Teaching in the Virtual Classroom: Assessing the Opportunities and Challenges of Integrating Transparency Teaching Methods with Online Learning" which…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) recently published "What Does the 1992 Consensus Mean to Citizens in Taiwan?" on the Diplomat. The article analyzes first-hand survey data and reveals that Taiwanese people do not have a consensus on the definition of the 1992 Consensus.

David Damore (Political Science) recently published "Race for the Senate 2018: Key Issue in Nevada" on the Brookings Institution's FixGov Blog. The piece provides an overview of the 2018 U.S. Senate campaign in Nevada between incumbent Republican Dean Heller and Democratic challenger Jacky Rosen.

David Damore and Tiffiany Howard (both Political Science) recently attended the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association in Orlando, Florida. Damore completed his term as association president, while Howard was named to the association Executive Council for a two-year term. Howard also was invited by the Southwestern Social…

The Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West served as co-sponsors of the American Planning Association Nevada Chapter Annual State Conference earlier this month. As such, many UNLV faculty members presented their research on critical policy areas for our state through various conference sessions.  Robert Lang and William…