News: College of Liberal Arts
![UNLV professor Alyssa Crittenden with members of the Hadza of Tanzania.](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/nc_D71441_02.jpg?itok=I7avfM_2)
UNLV joint study finds that elusive sleep patterns as humans age may have evolved to ensure safety.
Jon Huntsman Sr. gift honors Sen. Harry Reid and will help position UNLV history department as leader in study of the Intermountain West.
![Gold Butte National Monument Petroglyphs](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/goldbutte_D71397_2016-0526-3027.jpg?itok=ksoDnd7E)
Sociology-based program connects students to community issues and social justice causes.
![Claytee White, Director, Oral History Research Center at the Historic Westside School](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D71583_030.jpg?itok=k1Wrmr9-)
Oral historian Claytee White has spent a career recording Las Vegans’ personal histories. Now she speaks about her own remarkable roots.
![Dustin and Rochelle Hines](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/nc_D70900_06.jpg?itok=_6mqiudf)
Husband-and-wife team Dustin and Rochelle Hines research brain cells in their quest for solutions to degenerative diseases and developmental disorders.
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Jenna Morton will address next generation of Nevada leaders June 8 at UNLV.
![Gary Totten](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/nc_D71563_02.jpg?itok=9Ygy2dE9)
This chair of the English department finds the diversity of UNLV a good match for his interest in multi-ethnic literature.
![Mecca Walker holds up UNLV license plate](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D71511_19.jpg?itok=9wV2Pss4)
UNLV plates drive scholarship increases for Rebels.
![Gwynn Hobbs Grant speaks at a podium](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/D71537_039.jpg?itok=iA9otlcA)
Former UNLV basketball player Gwynn Hobbs Grant encourages Native American youths to create their own success.
![Poet Heather Winterer reads selections from her book "The Two Standards" during the Black Mountain Institute Alumni Reading Series](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/BMI_D70796_31.jpg?itok=1PCBfbw1)
Writers will contribute to the cultural landscape at UNLV and the community.
![Fireworks ignite during commencement](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/2017_grad_D70274_84.jpg?itok=o0GAxb6E)
UNLV has a commencement tradition for the president to select and highlight exceptional students who embody the academic, research, and community impact of the graduating class.
![Manuela Bowles sits at a table and reads](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/nc_D71294_018.jpg?itok=pJXM1eH_)
New graduate and author Manuela Bowles on rejection letters, Margaret Atwood, and building a career long before commencement.