Alyssa Crittenden (Anthropology) has been selected as a co-recipient of the 2021 Conrad M. Arensberg award from the American Anthropological Association. This honor recognizes individuals who have furthered anthropology as a natural science.   Alyssa Crittenden’s research combines methods of evolutionary…

Marina Colacicchi (Garber) (World Languages and Cultures) gave an interview and read a poetry selection from the upcoming book No Man's Land on radio channel Echo Culture (Moscow, Russia). The program was hosted by Natella Boltyanskaya. 

Aldo M. Barrita (Psychology) was awarded the Cultivating Healing, Advocacy, Nonviolence, Growth, and Equity Grant (CHANGE) of the American Psychological Association Division 56 (Trauma Psychology) that will fund his research project, Latinx experiences with racial and ethnic microaggressions: The construction and validity of a new…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) published an article in the Washington Post on July 14 that examines the current debates over critical race theory and Confederate monuments, showing how the suppression of Black history deliberately misrepresents how we understand the past and civil rights activists throughout the U.S…

Rochelle Hines and Dustin Hines (both Psychology) were awarded an NIH R15 grant through the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) for a project, Early Mechanisms Mediating the Organization of the Axon Initial Segment Impact the Formation of Axo-axonic Synapses. The $431,046 grant will fund research to advance our…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Philosophy for Children in a Pandemic: Rethinking the 'Community' of Inquiry" in Teaching Philosophy.

Michael Green, Andy Kirk, Willy Bauer, Michelle Turk (all History), Claytee White (Libraries), and Karen Harry (Anthropology) presented at the NEH Summer Institute, "Hoover Dam and the Shaping of the American West," which brought 25 K-12 teachers from around the country to Southern Nevada for a two-week program of content, pedagogy, and tours.

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited to talk in the roundtable titled "The future of Asia-Pacific Order after the US-EU and US-Russia summits" hosted by the Association for Asian Political Economy and Peace. His talk discusses the recent polls in many countries about people's perception of China and the competition between the…

Joe Ervin (Academic Success Center), Dave Beisecker, and Jasmin Özel (both Philosophy) recently published their paper in Philosophy of Education. Their paper focuses on the educational work of William Torrey-Harris and the St. Louis Hegelians, and John Dewey. Analyzing such Hegelian educational thought, their paper…

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) presented a paper at the biennial conference of the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth. Her paper, "Delinquency and Duress in the Desert: Juvenile Detention Centers in mid-20th Century Las Vegas," explored the development of juvenile detention institutions in Southern Nevada and its…

Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared in the documentary Mauled: When Police Dogs Attack, a joint project developed by news agencies including USA Today, The Marshall Project, The Indy Star, AL.com, and others. The documentary is a part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning series on the links between police brutality and…

Doris Morgan Rueda (History) will have art work featured in "Sizeable," a public art exhibition at Clark County's Rotunda Gallery at the Government Center. The exhibition is on public display through July 29.