Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published "Sight, Hearing and Higher Truths in Cervantine Narrative Structures," in La vida como obra de arte: Essays in Memory of John Jay Allen. Byrne's article looks at the three senses Renaissance Neoplatonists identified as unique, incorporeal conduits leading to…
Matthew Schurr and Brenna Renn (both Psychology) published an open access manuscript entitled, "Artificial Intelligence: An Interprofessional Perspective on Implications for Geriatric Mental Health Research and Care" in Frontiers in Psychiatry. This piece, written with colleagues from the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics (Toronto) and the…
Sonia Dhaliwal (Psychology)  was elected as a Board of Directors member to the Association of Counseling Center Training Agencies.
Jeff Schauer (History) participated in "Remembering Kaunda: His Life and Legacies in Southern Africa and Beyond," a conference hosted by the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research (based in Lusaka, Zambia). Kenneth Kaunda (1924-2021) was Zambia's president between 1964 and 1991. Schauer's paper, "Arming Zambia for Africa:…
Elizabeth Johnson, a doctoral student, Arianna Portillo, an undergrad, Nikki Bennett, a graduate student, and Peter Gray (all Anthropology) published "Exploring women's oxytocin responses to interactions with their pet cats." While similar research has investigated oxytocin responses of parents to babies or of people to interactions…
Shane Kraus (Psychology) is a co-investigator on the project “Sports wagering in the US: A nationally representative longitudinal study” which received a three-year grant from the International Center for Responsible Gaming (ICRG) for $401,930. The project will conduct a large scale, national study of sports-wagering behaviors in the United States…
Analiesa Delgado (History) was recently granted the Graduate Student Prize by the Western History Association at their annual conference this year in Portland, Oregon. 
Nicole Batten, Analiesa Delgago, Alejandra Herrera, and Doris Morgan-Rueda (all History), all graduate students, won the Western History Association Graduate Student Prize, and were honored at the organization's 2021 conference, held recently in Portland, Oregon.
Nicole Batten (History), a doctoral student, won the WHA-Huntington Martin Ridge Fellowship to conduct dissertation research at The Huntington Library.
Doris Morgan-Rueda, a doctoral student, and Alejandra Herrera, a master's student (both History), won the 2021 Western History Association Trennert-Iverson Conference Scholarships to help fund their attendance at the Western History Association conference recently in Portland, Oregon.
Kristen Phipps (History), a doctoral student, presented as part of a panel at the recent Western History Association conference in Portland, Oregon. The panel was "Adventures in Applied History: Turning Hindsight into Insight," co-sponsored by the Center of the American West.
Kaitlin Clinnin (English) recently published the article "In the Event of an Emergency: Crisis Management for Writing Program Administrators" in the Fall 2021 issue of the journal WPA: Writing Program Administration. The article details Clinnin's experience leading the UNLV Composition Program through the 1 October shooting and Spring 2020 COVID-…