Katherine Walker (English) published the article, "The Witch as Epistemic Spectacle," in Cahiers de Recherches Medievales et Humanistes — Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies. The article argues that Ben Jonson's witches are both possess embodied, occult knowledge and also teach audiences how to read the magical, the uncanny,…
Amber Sewell and Kevin Sebastian (both Libraries) presented a poster, "Criticality as our Anvil: Assessing Video Tutorials for Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility," at the 2023 Association of College and Research Libraries Conference.
Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) was recently interviewed by insider.com and talked about the impact of nuclear fallout. His discussion was published in the science section of Insider.com and titled: "A nuclear physicist describes 7 things you probably didn't know about radioactive fallout from a nuclear bomb."
Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored a paper titled, "Impacts on Teamwork Performance for an Engineering Capstone in Emergency Remote Teaching," published in the Journal of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
The researchers analyzed how teamwork performance was impacted for engineering…
Andrew Lugg (Political Science) published an article in the journal Global Policy titled, "Politicising pandemics: Evidence from U.S. media coverage of the World Health Organisation." The article uses text-as-data methods to analyze media coverage of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the New York Times and Washington Post…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "When We Die, We Become Muertos: Children's Philosophical Perspectives on Death in Tianguistengo, Hidalgo," in the Journal of Mexican Philosophy.
Kristine Jan Cruz Espinoza, a Ph.D. student in the Higher Education program (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), is one of the four graduate students selected to be a Graduate Student Fellow for the Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement 2024 Cycle Review Process.
The Carnegie Elective…
Chelsea Heinbach (Libraries), along with colleagues Charissa Powell, University of Delaware; Hailley Fargo, Northern Kentucky University; and Nimisha Bhat, Smith College, presented "Forging the Future of Library and Information Sciences Researchers Through Community" at the 2023 Association of College and Research Libraries Conference.
Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) gave a paper presentation on "Exploring the causes and consequences of homelessness among sexual and gender diverse adults in Texas" and a poster presentation on "Latent profiles of sociocultural stressors in a sample of immigrant origin Hispanic and Somali adolescents: Associations with mental health"…
With a little guidance from his mother, the new director of Student Diversity Programs is ready to cheer on and empower UNLV's diverse student population.