On Feb. 23, 2023, Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on Nevada Public Radio to discuss the history of the Historic Westside and current plans to invest in rebuilding and revitalizing the area.

Doctoral student Liam Johnson (Anthropology) was awarded a Pollitzer Student Travel Grant for up to $500 by the American Association of Biological Anthropologists.

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and Texas Tech colleagues recently published a paper, "Further Understanding the Correlations Between Sexting and Mental Health: Considerations for Sex and Sexual Identity," in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 

Timothy Erwin (English) presented a paper on the late fiction of Jane Austen, “New Contexts for Persuasion,” at the annual meeting of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Los Angeles on February 18. Joining him on the program were UNLV doctoral candidates Miranda Hannasch, whose paper was titled, “‘Sad Oroonoko Pleads for Each…

Professor Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research, Anthropology) is the lead editor of a new book titled, Food Provisioning in Complex Societies: Zooarchaeological Perspectives, published through the University Press of Colorado. Atici also has co-authored a chapter in the book.  Through creative combinations of ethnohistoric evidence,…

Susan Lee Johnson's (History) Western History Association presidential address, first delivered at the organization's annual conference last October, will be published in the spring 2023 issue of the Western Historical Quarterly. Advance access online is now available. 

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) received a small grant from the Marc Sanders Foundation to support research and writing in public philosophy.

Patricia Heisser Metoyer, Ph.D., (Psychology, African American and African Diaspora and Interdisciplinary Studies) was invited by Sage Publications to review the seminal text African American Psychology: From Africa to America, Fourth Edition, a comprehensive coverage of African American psychology by Faye Z. Belgrave and Kevin W. Allison. The…

On Feb. 8, 2023, Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies program; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on Channel 8 News discussing historical and contemporary issues regarding African American Mental health.

Nathan C. Higgins, Alexandra N. Scurry, Fang Jiang, David F. Little, Claude Alain, Mounya Elhilali, and Joel S. Snyder published a paper titled, "Adaptation in the sensory cortex drives bistable switching during auditory stream segregation," in Neuroscience of Consciousness. Dr. Higgins and Dr. Little were post-doctoral fellows at UNLV, and…

On Saturday, February 4th, 2023, the BBC's Outlook program re-broadcast a 45-minute special on the life and work of UNLV visiting professor Roberto Lovato (English) and his award-winning memoir, Unforgetting. The program was broadcast worldwide.

Zachary Billot (Political Science, Brookings Mountain West, Lincy Institute) was recently named a recipient of the Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute Fellowship. Competing nationally, he was awarded a competitive spot among a cohort of 30 at Carnegie Mellon University. He will spend seven weeks engaging in rigorous…