Camila Salgado (Political Science), a Hixson-Lied Scholar, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Spain for the 2025-2026 academic year. Sponsored by the U.S.-Spain Fulbright Commission and the Gobierno de Canarias, Salgado will live and work in the Canary Islands, assisting in English language classrooms and supporting…

Steven Pace (Criminal Justice) was a guest on the NPR radio show, "All Things Considered," hosted by Lakshmi Singh. Pace proved analysis concerning the arrest of Luigi Mangione in December 2024. 

An-Pyng Sun (Social Work), together with Ariann Chelli (Desert Hope Treatment Center in Las Vegas) and Maureen Strohm (HCA Sunrise Health GME Consortium at Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas) wrote an article, "Connecting Hospitalized Patients with Substance Use Disorder to Community Continuing Coordinated Care: The Critical Role of Hospital…

Linda Dam (Journalism and Media Studies) and Anne Marie Borsai Basaran from the University of Connecticut have published an article titled, "Societal perceptions of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Strategic communicative action in problem solving" in Journal of Communication Management. The study seeks to understand the strategic communicative…

Kevin Stoker (Journalism & Media Studies) published "Expanding the Limits of “Mere Newspaper Reporting:” the Interpretive Reporting of William Bolitho Ryall in American Journalism. He and co-author Brandon Bouchillon, an associate professor at the University of Arkansas, examined the iconic writing and reporting of Bolitho, who helped pioneer…

Ashley Noel Pruitt (Medicine; Public Policy), associate director of technical assistance and policy for the Behavioral Health Education, Retention, and Expansion Network of Nevada (BeHERE NV), was recognized this month by the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs at UNLV. Pruitt is a doctorate candidate in the School of Public Policy and Leadership (…

Steve Pace (Criminal Justice), Stephen Benning (Psychology), Logan Kennedy (Criminal Justice), and Jade Laughlin published an article, "Predictors of Successful Resolutions and Avoidance of Harms in Crisis Negotiations: An Analysis of the FBI’s HOBAS Database from 1982 to 2023." Crisis negotiation incidents can be emotionally charged events and…

Aya Shata's Jour 433 IMC Competition class (Journalism and Media Studies) won third place in the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) at the district level. The team developed a multi-touchpoint integrated marketing communication campaign worth $75 million for a real client. Shata along with five students (Sabrina, Alan, Joey, Kae, and…

Stephen Bates (Journalism and Media Studies) addressed the Antitrust and Competition Conference at the University of Chicago on April 10. The conference theme was Economic Concentration and the Marketplace of Ideas. Bates spoke on the opening panel.

Aya Shata (Journalism and Media Studies) and co-authors Michelle Seelig and Nick Carcioppolo from the University of Miami published an article titled, "Transmedia Edutainment for Sustainable Advocacy: How Narrative Engagement and Counterarguments Influence Generation Z’s Response to Sustainable Development Messages," in the International…

Aya Shata (Journalism and Media Studies) and Kendall Hartley (Education) published an article, "Artificial intelligence and communication technologies in academia: faculty perceptions and the adoption of generative AI," at the International Journal of Educational Technology on Higher Education. The study explores higher education faculty’s…

In April 2025, Jeffrey T. Child (Communication Studies) will become president of the largest regional communication association in the nation, the Central States Communication Association (CSCA). Child is the primary conference planner for CSCA’s 94th annual convention being held April 1-6 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He organized this year’s…