Ashley Doughty (Art) is interviewed on the "Art People" podcast. She talks about her latest exhibition, “Kept to Myself,” at the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art and the concepts behind this work. Listen in as we learn about her history, her love for teaching, and how she shares her experience as a Black woman through the art that she creates.

Dr. Jordana Haber (Medicine) published a case report, "Rare External Jugular Vein Pseudoaneurysm," in Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine. She also published a peer-reviewed manuscript, "Top 10 Evidence-based Countermeasures for Night Shift Workers," in Emergency Medicine Journal, addressing recommendations to increase sleep,…

Sapira Cheuk (Art) will present a solo exhibition, "Dyads: Altered Bodies, Converging Forms," at Vision Gallery in Chandler, Arizona, scheduled to open Aug. 29. Included in the show are 'Pas de Deux in the Time of Quarantine,' a project in collaboration with 40 dancers from around the world and "Aligned Parallel," a painting installation that…

Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) co-authored a manuscript, "Caregivers of Persons with Diverse Health Conditions: Demographics and Burden of Care," that recently was published.

Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) delivered comments on a paper, "Can I Be A Vegetarian Who Eats Meat?" by Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby at the 13th annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME). She also co-organized the annual Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals pre-RoME workshop. 

Sheila Bock (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) contributed an essay, "Masks On," to the Nevada Humanities Heart to Heart program. In this piece, she reflects on how the expressive culture surrounding masks during COVID-19 can simultaneously work to reinforce our sense of connection to others and lay bare tensions within our…

Saha Salahi (Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute) recently had an OpEd, "Pandemic Highlights the Need to Invest in Civic Education" featured in the Las Vegas Sun. She is pursuing a major in communications and is a Brookings public policy minor student.

Emily Budd (Art) has published "Memorial for Queer Rhyolite, a Temporary Monument to Dreams in the Dust" in Engaging Collections, volume 1. Her essay unpacks the inspiration behind, and archival research supporting her reformative monument project in Rhyolite dedicated to Stonewall Park, a queer utopian effort in the 1980s. Engaging…

Gwen Marchand (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) co-authored an article, "Multilevel Mixed Methods Research and Educational Psychology." The work is featured in Educational Psychologist, the official journal of the American Psychological Association's Division 15 (Educational Psychology). In this article, Marchand and her colleague…

Linda Lister (Music) led a Yoga for Singers workshop via Zoom for the London International Gospel Choir.   

Brenna Renn (Psychology) and colleagues at the University of Washington described real-world use of behavioral health mobile apps in a recent publication in JAMA Network Open. They argue that for behavioral health mobile apps to make a public health impact they have to be not only downloaded, but actually used by consumers or…

Susan McLennon (Nursing) co-authored an article titled "Missing the Mark: The Complexity of African American Dementia Family Caregiving" in the Journal of Family Nursing.