Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Janelle Yasukochi (Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education) and Maria Aladjova (Health Sciences) served as the conference co-chairs, representing Region 9, at the NACADA Region 8, 9, & 10 Conference: Illuminating the Path of Possibilities, recently held in Las Vegas from Feb. 27-March 1. NACADA is the professional association for Academic…
Todd L. Jennings, Yen-Ling Chen, Bailey M. Way, and Shane Kraus (all Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Associations between online dating platform use and mental and sexual health among a mixed sexuality college student sample," in Computer in Human Behavior.
Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed by journalist Rachel Moore of KTNV Channel 13 in Las Vegas about the history and value of Black Studies programs in American higher education, and how the African American and African Diaspora Studies Program at UNLV is…
Barbara Roth (Anthropology) has published a book, Households on the Mimbres Horizon, with the University of Arizona Press. The book is based on her excavations at La Gila Encantada, a Pithouse period (AD 550-1000) archaeological site located in southern New Mexico.
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Anthropology) published an opinion piece in the LA Times Español on violence, non-human animals, and the "war on drugs" in Mexico.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) has received Fulbright Western Hemisphere Regional Travel Program Grant to Canada. She will spend two weeks as a Researcher in Residence at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique (Center for Research on Ethics) in Montreal.
Nicholas Barron (Anthropology) was recently interviewed for the KNPR Desert Companion story, "Spirit Moves," about a potential U.S. National monument designation for Avi Kwa Ame (or "Spirit Mountain"), which would protect nearly a half million acres of Native land, south of Las Vegas.
Timothy Erwin (English) published "Book Illustration and The Deserted Village" as part of a group of essays celebrating the 250th anniversary of the poem in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.
Stephen Benning and Edward Smith (both Psychology) published an article about how to register scientific studies in Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. They argue that doing so increases the transparency of the research process and makes the outcomes of studies more trustworthy by reducing the dependence of data analytic…
On Feb. 27, Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on the radio program "Press Play with Madeleine Brand," on KCRW, the NPR station in Los Angeles. He discussed the long history of canine terror used against marginalized people, and provided comment on a new California…
On Feb. 24, 2023, Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) appeared on Channel 8 News discussing the Civil Rights Movement in Las Vegas, highlighting the accomplishments of James B. McMillan who led the protests during the 1950s and '60s.
Stephen Benning (Psychology) was elected treasurer of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy (SSSP). SSSP is the international society devoted to research on the personality disorder of psychopathy, which represents a tremendous financial and interpersonal cost to the world at large. He remains the society's historian and was its…