Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper on October 15, 2022, titled, "Providing Health Care to Patients in Spanish: A Pilot Training Program for Heritage Speakers," at the 79th annual conference of the South Central Modern Language Association held in Memphis, Tennessee.  

Christopher Kearney (Psychology) recently generated eight publications on school attendance and school absenteeism in youth, in addition to a video address to the International Network for School Attendance. Kearney, C.A. (2022). Functional impairment guidelines for school attendance problems in youth: Recommendations for caseness in the…

Anthony King (Psychology) received his third $3,000 research stipend award from UNLV's International Gaming Institute and the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling for his research related to disordered gambling, responsible gambling, and posttraumatic stress disorder. These funds were provided by the Nevada Department of Public and Behavioral…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) recently published three papers.  The first paper: "Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between posttraumatic stress symptoms and hypersexual behaviors among individuals who have gambled in their lifetimes" was published in Journal of Sexual Medicine.  The second paper: "Withdrawal and tolerance…

On September 25, Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) presented her latest book of poetry, The Homelandless, (Kiev, Ukraine, 2022) within the Intercultural Poetry Readings program held at Russian Samovar, New York, NY. 

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) participated in the Boston Poetry Readings series in tandem with Alexander Amchislavsky (Toronto, Canada) and presented her latest poetry book, The Homelandless (Kiev, Ukraine, 2022). 

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) was published in The Poetry of the Latest Times. The Chronicles, an anthology of war-time poetry (Ivan Limbakh Publishing, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2022; selected and edited by Yurii Leving). 

Ph.D. student Em Coombes (Sociology) recently published their co-authored article, “Disabled Sex Workers’ Fight for Digital Rights, Platform Accessibility, and Design Justice,” in Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ). The research examines how normative whorephobic, racist, ableist user experience (UX) social media…

Unforgetting, the reported memoir by visiting professor Roberto Lovato (English) was recognized in the Los Angeles Times as the inspiration for an art show curated by artist Felix Quintana in Los Angeles. “Much of my work is a dialogue in response to literary material,” he says. The chosen title, “Love is the Given of the Place,” borrowed from…

Visiting professor Roberto Lovato (English) wrote a tribute to legendary urbanist and writer Mike Davis, who was also Lovato's friend. "He was one of the preeminent poet warriors of the English-speaking world," wrote Lovato in his Nation Magazine article, adding, "It is a testament to the power of Mike’s thought and passion that thousands of other…

Brenna Renn (Psychology) published two recent manuscripts focused on her line of work developing nonspecialist providers to deliver low-intensity behavioral interventions to expand access to treatment for common mental health disorders. The first, published in Aging & Mental Health, detailed a pilot study to train bachelor-level students to…

Co-PI's Jennifer Pharr and Jason Flatt (Public Health) and Renato Liboro (Psychology) along with co-investigators Courtney Coughenour, Krystal Kittle, and Emylia Terry (Public Health) were awarded a CTR-IN grant for their project, "Building Healthy Outcomes Using a Supportive Environment (H.O.U.S.E.) for Sexual and Gender Minorities in…