Anthony King (Psychology) received a $3,000 research stipend award from UNLV's International Gaming Institute and the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling for his research related to problem gambling amongst Nevadan college students. These funds were provided by the Nevada Department of Public and Behavioral Health to encourage scholars from Nevada…

John M. Bowers (English) had his book Tolkien's Lost Chaucer (Oxford University Press) recognized by the Mythopoeic Society's 2021 award for scholarship in inkling studies.

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) presented a paper, "Reconstructing American Hegelianism: John Dewey and William Torrey Harris," at the John Dewey Memorial Conference in Burlington, Vermont. The paper is a collaboration with Jasmin Özel (Philosophy) and Joe Ervin (Academic Success Center).

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, "Teaching Spanish Phonological Variation in a Beginning Medical Spanish Course," at the 78th Annual Conference of the South Central Modern Language Association in Houston.  This research is related to the courses that she teaches in educational outreach, and Spanish for health…

Madina Kamolova (Management Information Systems), Jessica Habashy, Kaelyn Griffin, Bailey Way, and Shane Kraus (all Psychology) will be presenting at the annual meeting of Society of Advancement of Sexual Health in Seattle Oct. 14-17.  Graduate students from the Behavioral Addictions Lab will present three posters: 1) "Oh God yes: the…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on The Colin McEnroe Show, a program on Connecticut Public Radio, to discuss the history of the handshake. The discussion was based upon Parry's research on the origins of the Black American handshake, usually known as the "dap," as an extension of West African cultural…

Renato (Rainier) M. Liboro, Jenna Despres, Brandon Ranuschio, Sherry Bell, and Lianne Barnes (all Psychology) of the CHAMPION Mental Health research lab, published their article, "Forging Resilience to HIV/AIDS: Personal Strengths of Middle-aged and Older Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men Living With HIV/AIDS," in…

Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) recently published an article, “Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity of diminutives in –it in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish" (Subjetividad e Lingüística  intersubjectividad de los diminutivos en –it en español amazónico peruano) in Revista Española de Lingüística.  

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published Latin American Immigration Ethics, which she co-edited with Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda, with University of Arizona Press. The volume uses conceptual frameworks from Latin American and Latinx philosphies to consider immigration ethics challenges in the context of the Americas. Reed-Sandoval contributed three…

Christopher Perkins (English) published "Love Letter to Great Salt Lake" in The Salt Lake Tribune. The newspaper published the letter as a special column. The letter hopes to raise awareness around the fragility of a uniquely remarkable lake and appreciation for how commercial activity and a changing climate are impacting it. 

Peter Gray (Anthropology) lead-authored a chapter with UNLV Anthropology MA graduate Alex Straftis and University of Oklahoma colleague Kermyt Anderson entitled, "Men and reproduction: Perspectives from biological anthropology." The chapter appears in the new edited volume, Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction, and offers a concise…

Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research,  Anthropology) has co-authored an article entitled “Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene finds from the 2020 sounding excavation at Girmeler, Southwestern Turkey” in the  2021 issue of peer-reviewed European journal Anatolica. The paper sheds new light on the origins and spread of farming economies in…