Andre Chiang, DMA, PAVA-RV (Music - Voice) presented a workshop at the Hybrid Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA) Symposium. The workshop was titled, "Opening the Lower Range for Voice Users Using the 'Moan'." The audience for the symposium is international in scope and appeals to all vocology adjacent fields such as speech-language…

Emily Budd (Art) published an essay titled, "Aluminati: Rekindling a Forgotten Future of Foundry," for Couch in the Desert. The essay describes the importance of growing an inclusive and expanded foundry project, Aluminati, and the impact of its work.

Emily Budd (Art) was interviewed in Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America, Season 2, Episode 1, on Discovery, about the queer history of Rhyolite, Nevada, and her public sculpture that memorializes it.

Andre Chiang, DMA, baritone (Music - Voice Faculty), is performing the role of Il Conte in Le nozze di Figaro in Landlocked Opera’s inaugural collaboration with the Missouri Symphony in Columbia, Missouri. The performances are on Sept. 9 and 10 in the historic Missouri Theatre. During the rehearsal process of the opera, Chiang also gave a lecture…

Marta Plominska (Music) was recently awarded an Aspire2STEAM scholarship. Aspire2STEAM.org provides educational scholarships and mentoring to young women and girls who are working toward careers that require education in science, tech, engineering, the arts, or math (STEAM). Plominska is a post-doctoral fellow in flute performance at UNLV,…

Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez (Architecture) has been inducted as Fellow of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES). To be selected as Fellow, a member of ASES needs to be active in the society for at least 10 years and has served with distinction in the advancement of solar energy utilization by way of research, education, public service, and/or…

Stefano Boselli (Theatre) published his monograph Actor-Network Dramaturgies: The Argentines of Paris, which provides key critical tools to significantly broaden the readers’ perception of theatre and performance history. In line with posthuman thought, each chapter engages Actor-Network Theory and similar theories to reveal a comprehensive range…

Stephen Caplan's (Music) article, "Eviter la Perte Auditive," was recently published in La Lettre du Hauboïste, the journal of the Association Française du Hautbois. This is a translation of Caplan's article, "Avoiding Hearing Loss," which was published in 2022 in The Double Reed.

Professor Ashley Hairston Doughty (Art) was named the Artist of the Month for August 2023 by the College Book Art Association (CBAA). She will be presenting her work as part of the association’s Book Arts Series on Saturday, August 19 at 10 a.m. (PST). The presentation, titled, “Sharing Personal Experiences through Visual Storytelling," will…

Amy Brown (Music) was an invited presenter for the 2023 AstroKnot Festival. "The AstroKnot Festival, powered by PNC, is all about tying Space Age Ideas to our current pedagogy using design and invention. Our goal with this conference is to encourage and foster creativity, curiosity, and collaboration in order to demonstrate strategies we can use…

Professor Stephen Caplan (Music) was a featured performer and teacher for the Ostrava Oboe Master Classes, held at the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. He joined other international faculty for a week of teaching, coaching, and performing with oboe students from around the world.

Hikmet Sidney Loe (Art) was an invited presenter for CRITICAL GROUND, an initiative created by Granary Arts in Ephraim, Utah, exploring how the dialogue of art critique might shift towards communities and artists working outside the frameworks of New York City and Los Angeles. Her in-the-field session explored ideas of center (geographical,…