Michelle Tusan (History) delivered a lecture, "Mapping Genocide and the Refugee Experience during the Great War in the Middle East," for the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.   

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a keynote presentation for the "1er. Encuentro Nacional Virtual de Investigación Educativa" (First National, Virtual Meeting on Educational Research) organized by the Escuela Normal Sierra Hidalguense (Hidalgo, Mexico). Her presentation explored possible new paths for creating philosophical "…

Dr. Ji Won Yoo, Dr. Scott Lee (both Medicine); Nicole Jeong (Psychology); and Jay Shen (Public Health), along with Hee-Taik Kang, a past visiting scholar in the School of Public Health;    Joungyoun Kim, Hyo-Sun You, Ye-Seul Kim, all of Chungbuk National University in Korea; Hyung-Jin Hyun of Seoul National University in…

Kenneth M. Miller (Political Science) spoke with the Associated Press about Vice President Kamala Harris' visit to Las Vegas as part of the White House's efforts to promote the recent pandemic relief legislation passed by Congress.

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) has successfully completed the online training ''18e siècle: le combat des Lumières'' organized by Paris Lumières University/ Université Paris Lumières in Paris. She attended eight weeks of training this year and was awarded a certificate of success this month.

John M. Bowers (English) will have his book Tolkien's Lost Chaucer (Oxford University Press) featured as the subject of a session at the conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) to be held in Las Vegas in November.  PAMLA will host Bowers for a "creative conversation" during this session.  

Aldo M. Barrita (Psychology) received honorable mention for the Pre-Doctoral Ford Foundation Fellowship. From more than 2,200 applicants, only 75 get the fellowship and around 200 are included on the honorable mention list.

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) participated in the virtual anthology “Women’s Poetry: the Space and Time” presented at the biennale “The Oriental Vector: Women’s Literature of Asian Countries”. The project involved 78 women poets residing in 14 countries and reading the poems of 44 women poets written before 1917. Garber-…

David J. Morris (English) was interviewed about apophenia and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for the NPR podcast "Throughline."   

Shane Kraus (Psychology) presented two talks this month at the 9th annual Conference on Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction (CPA): Substance Use and Addictive Behaviors Across the Lifespan, which was held virtually this year. The first talk, "Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder in ICD-11: Clinical Considerations and Future Directions, "which…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) published five articles and book chapters in 2021.  The first paper, Pornography Use and Psychological Science: A Call for Consideration, was published in Current Directions in Psychological Sciences.  The second paper, Military Veterans’ Psychological Distress Associated with Problematic Pornography Use, was…

John Curry (History) was the featured guest on an inaugural podcast series launched by the Yunus Emre Institute in Washington, D.C. Hosted by Cengiz Sisman, the virtual podcast "Humans of the Ottoman Empire: Sufis," was attended by several hundred people from around the world and covered a variety of topics related to the influence of Islamic…