Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, "Teaching Communication Strategies in the Spanish for Medicine Classroom" at the 75th annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association in San Antonio earlier this month.

Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) presented during two forums at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society in Buffalo, New York, “Envisioning the Digital Folklore Archive as Process and Collaboration” and “Folklore and Enlightenment in America: A Conversation with Bill Ivey.”

Timothy P. Gocha (Anthropology), along with co-authors Alexander Robling (Indiana University) and Sam D. Stout (Ohio State University), recently published a book chapter, "Histomorphometry of Human Cortical Bone: Applications to Age Estimation."   The use of quantitative bone histology (histomorphometry) can be a useful tool for…

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…

Marcia Gallo (History) was featured on NPR's "It's Been A Minute" with Sam Sanders in honor of the 30th anniversary of National Coming Out Day.

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…

James Hyman (Psychology) delivered an invited talk,  "ACC Ensembles Link Actions and Outcomes to Predict Future Events," at the Computational Properties of Prefrontal Cortex Workshop in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier this month.   

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) has been awarded the credential of certified medical interpreter in Spanish by the National Board of Medical Interpreters. This the second credential of the two national exams for medical interpreting that she has been awarded.

Rochelle Walker (Fine Arts) and Samantha Carroll (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) created Living Your Best Life: Balancing School, Work, and Family Summit. It was created out of a graduate multicultural course project within the higher education leadership program. The goal was to provide UNLV student-parents a positive and…

Tim Gauthier (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) published "Conceptual Confusion: The Ambiguities of the War on Terror in Roy-Bhattacharya's The Watch and O'Hagan's The Illuminations" in Terrorism and Literature (Cambridge University Press).

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, "Los Tres Sentidos Incorpóreos en el Persiles," during the 2018 Cervantes Society of America conference, held at the University of Calgary, Canada, last month.

David J. Morris (English) will be taking part in a New York Times panel at UC San Diego on Oct. 4. The webcast panel, "Hollywood and The Artist's Gaze on Vets," includes C.J. Chivers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, and Jason Hall, the screenwriter of American Sniper.