In The News: College of Liberal Arts

Local elected officials, planning and transportation representatives along with developers gathered Thursday around a central question: how do we address Southern Nevada’s ongoing housing shortage?
A surprising number of alternative facts about the world’s gambling capital continue to resonate across pop culture, with little relevance to reality. The Hoover Dam holds one of the biggest.

Consciousness may be a mystery, but that doesn’t mean that neuroscientists don’t have any explanations for it. Far from it.

A symposium this month at UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law highlighted the academic-legislative partnership. The event examined the sex work industry, pathways into the profession and criminalization issues. Though not officially connected to AB 209, several symposium speakers who had assisted Orentlicher in crafting the legislation discussed their contributions.

A symposium this month at UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law highlighted the academic-legislative partnership. The event examined the sex work industry, pathways into the profession and criminalization issues. Though not officially connected to AB 209, several symposium speakers who had assisted Orentlicher in crafting the legislation discussed their contributions.

A symposium this month at UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law highlighted the academic-legislative partnership. The event examined the sex work industry, pathways into the profession and criminalization issues. Though not officially connected to AB 209, several symposium speakers who had assisted Orentlicher in crafting the legislation discussed their contributions.

A report from UNLV Criminal Justice professor Dr. William H. Sousa showed that from 2018 to 2022, there was a 23% increase in disorderly calls for service on Las Vegas Boulevard and 11% of those calls were on pedestrian bridges.
Many people don’t think twice when their physician prescribes antidepressants or other medications—after all, mental health is just as important as physical well-being. However, new research suggests that some of these drugs may quietly interfere with brain development in unborn children, raising urgent safety concerns during pregnancy.

Eliminated grants include those awarded to UNLV Partnership for Research, Assessment, Counseling, Therapy and Innovative Clinical Education (PRACTICE), a mental health clinic at UNLV that provides care to populations that have difficulty accessing help, and turns out trained mental health providers in the process.
If you’ve ever found yourself tearing up during an in-flight movie, noticed that your favorite snacks taste a little off at 35,000 feet, or felt like a single cocktail hit you harder in the air than on the ground, altitude could be to blame.

Elon Musk took his chainsaw last month to federal grants for mental health – including two that provide free mental health counseling to youth in Elko and Humboldt Counties, where access to such services is scarce, according to UNLV’s Dr. Dan Allen, director and principal investigator of the Nevada Rural Mental Health Outreach Program (RHOP). DOGE also eliminated another grant for the mental health needs of homeless children.

A recent discovery of a molecular connection between autism and myotonic dystrophy, a type of neuromuscular disease, may provide a breakthrough on how clinicians approach autism spectrum disorder. The new study by an interdisciplinary team of biomedical scientists, published on April 21 in Nature Neuroscience, used myotonic dystrophy as a tool or model to learn more about autism – effectively using one disorder to better understand the other.