Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) and a large team of evolutionary biologists led by Rosemary Gillespie (University of California Berkeley) published a review article, Comparing Adaptive Radiations Across Space, Time, and Taxa in the Journal of Heredity.  This paper reviews adaptive radiations across the globe to uncover commonalities…

Paulette Tandy (Accounting) recently received a $10,000 grant from the Internal Audit Foundation for The Institute for Internal Auditors' (IIA) Internal Auditing Education Partnership (IAEP) program that will be used to hire a teaching assistant to help with the internal auditing classes and continuing to implement the program at UNLV.…

Philip Tschirhart and Emma Frances Bloomfield (both Communication Studies) published a paper, "Framing the Anthropocene as Influence or Impact: The Importance of Interdisciplinary Contributions to Stratigraphic Classification" in Environmental Communication. The paper examines disciplinary debates over the stratigraphic (rock-layer) …

Sheniz Moonie (Public Health), Rebecca Scherr, and Gayle Allenback (both Medicine), along with Julia Anderson, '19 PhD Public Health, and Mary Beth Hogan from the department of pediatrics at the Marshall University School of Medicine, published an article on "Eosinophilic Esophagitis: Comorbidities and Atopic Disease in Nevada" in the journal…

Rebecca Gill (Political Science) and her colleagues Jennie Sweet-Cushman (Chatham University) and Sondra Cosgrove (CSN) have been awarded the 2019 Carrie Chapman Catt special award for research on women in politics in honor of the centennial of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The award recognizes their work on “Nevada…

Lauren Galloway (Sociology) has a new publication, ‘A Conspiracy of the Nation’: Case Study of Stokely Carmichael’s and H. Rap Brown’s Arguments in Support of Black Power," which appears in The Journal of Black Studies. She is on track to receive her PhD in May.

C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published a paper, "Animal Rights and the Duty to Harm: When to be a Harm Causing Deontologist" in the Journal for Ethics and Moral Philosophy. 

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) has published an article, "Maternity and Migration," in the journal Philosophy Compass.

Marina Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) has had a selection of poetry published in the latest issue of the literary magazine Literratura (Moscow, Russia).

Harriet Barlow (The Intersection), Orlando White (Campus Life), and Kevin Wright (Student Diversity & Social Justice) facilitated a panel discussion and presentation on how toxic masculinity and hypermasculinity is manifested on campus and in the workplace, and how to alleviate those problematic behaviors.  The panelists who shared their…

Barb Brents, Andrew Spivak, Christina Parreira, Alessandra Lanti (all Sociology), and Olesya Venger (Journalism & Media Studies), along with Takashi Yamashita of the University of Maryland, are the authors of "Are Men Who Pay for Sex Sexist? Masculinity and Client Attitudes toward Gender Role Equality in Different Prostitution Markets," which…

Ashley Doughty (Art) will present at the 108th annual College of Art Association Conference in Chicago this month. She will present on a panel called Black, Brown + Latinx Graphic Design Educators, chaired by Kelly A Walters from The New School, Parsons School of Design. Other participating designers are representing the College of New Jersey…