News: College of Liberal Arts
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The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, in concert with PEN America, offers a creative home in Las Vegas for the Egyptian novelist and journalist through its City of Asylum Program.
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Technology overload is harming our physical, mental, and social health, says a UNLV sociologist.
The Barrick Museum's Axis Mundo exhibit explores the intersectionality of LGBTQ and Latinx artists.
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The Believer Festival is a three-day roving celebration of writing, music, film, comedy, and visual arts hosted by UNLV's Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute. The event is April 25-27, with tickets available starting Feb. 15.
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Through progressive grant funding, researchers from three UNLV schools encourage greater use of palliative care among Southern Nevada’s Asian communities.
![A photo of UNLV archaeologists Diane and Arlen Chase examining items on the floor of a tomb in Caracol, Belize.](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/Main_ChasesB20tomb.jpg?itok=dtZ2GZuX)
UNLV’s Diane and Arlen Chase engage in fieldwork and new technologies to uncover Maya history at Caracol, Belize.
The UNLV anthropology student Trevor Pollom's research in nutrition took him to Africa as a tribe transitions to cultivated crops.
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2008 Alumna Alison Victoria starts her second show about her first love.
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A collection of stories highlighting UNLV students and faculty who made the news in 2018.
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In 2018, faculty and students collaborated with one another and international colleagues on scientific exploration that sought to help people make sense of themselves and the world around them.
![Sociology doctoral student Marta Soligo poses at Montelago Village at Lake Las Vegas](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/media/image/2023-01/Marta-Soligo-D72398-018.jpg?itok=oxQbAELm)
A native of Italy, Marta Soligo researches the Italian "flavor" of some Southern Nevada tourist attractions.
![Daniel Allen works with former undergraduate researcher Bernadine Palisoc](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/NC_Allen.jpg?itok=vDSPs1DI)
UNLV psychology professor hopes study will influence treatments.