Congratulations to the recipients of these 2022 UNLV teaching awards: Outstanding Teaching by Part-Time Faculty Award Xiaoling Hays - Chinese/World Languages and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts Elizabeth "Hope" Hinchman - School of Nursing Yousif Muradian - Finance, Lee School of Business Hiroko Tadano - Japanese/World Languages and…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published an article, "Perspective: Can Psychedelic-assisted Therapy be a Promising Aid in Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder Treatment?" in Comprehensive Psychiatry. 

Carlos S. Dimas (History) gave a talk,  "Poisoned Eden: The Practice of Governance and Autonomy in the Cholera Epidemic of 1886- 1887 in Northwestern Argentina," at the history department of the University of Melbourne (Australia). The talk was based on Dimas's recently published book Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building,…

Tiange Xu (Hospitality), Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute), and Shane Kraus (Psychology) presented a poster, "Problem Gambling and Mental Health Disorders among Undergraduate Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic", at the 2022 New Horizons In Responsible Gambling Conference.

Aldo Barrita (Psychology) was one of the two UNLV graduate students accepted at the Crossing Latinidades Summer Institute in Latino Humanities Studies Methodologies and Theories to take place at the University of Illinois at Chicago this summer. The institute’s goal is to equip participants who are already thinking of dissertation ideas with…

John Curry (History) was a featured panelist on a March 5 radio program on KCEP 88.1. "The Ottoman Empire and Tolerance in Society" was hosted by Mujahid Ramadan and also included professor Bojan Petrovic of the University of California, Irvine. The program discussed various aspects of Ottoman culture from its origins in Central Asia to the legacy…

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) accepted a postdoctoral fellow position at the Center for Law & History at Stanford Law School for 2022-24. 

David Forman (Philosophy) published "Kant on the Moral Law as the Causal Law for Freedom" in the journal Kant-Studien.

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) served as the chair of the Planning Committee for the seventh annual conference of the African American Intellectual History Society, which took place virtually earlier this month and was hosted and supported by UNLV. The annual conference brings together the most innovative…

Steven T. Landis (Political Science) was interviewed by the Reno Gazette Journal to discuss the risks of Nevada being a target for a possible Russian nuclear strike. 

Tiffiany Howard (Political Science), Brach Poston (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and April Lopez (University of Texas, Austin) recently published the paper, "Extremist Radicalization in the Virtual Era: Analyzing the Neurocognitive Process of Online Radicalization." Their article appears in the latest issue of the journal, Studies in…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Border Crossing for Abortion: A Feminist Challenge to Border Theory" in the Journal of Social Philosophy.