Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
James Hyman and doctoral student Lauren Crew (both Psychology), along with Herb Covington of Tufts University, write in Current Biology about the anterior cingulate cortex's role in mediating aggression. Violent behavior is the product of a diverse network of neural structures. A new study shows that the anterior cingulate cortex is…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) received a $4,000 grant from the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO) to support the development of a Philosophy for Children initiative for the Las Vegas K-12 school system.
Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) recently published a chapter, “Click, Validate, Reply: Three Paradoxes of the Terminal Self" in the International Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism. He explains that our interactions require us to adjust our sensorimotor skills and perceptual aptitudes, our need for social recognition,…
Shane Kraus (Psychology) published five papers this spring.
The first paper (The Role of Impaired Control in Screening Problematic Pornography Use: Evidence from Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies in a Large Help-seeking Male Sample) was published in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
The second paper (The Influences of Religiousness/…
The Great Works Academic Certificate program has received a $15,000 grant from the Jack Miller Center, which is devoted to teaching the founding principles and history of the USA. The grant will be used to sponsor several guest lectures in American political thought. Additional funding will come from the dean's office of the College of Liberal…
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) provided comment for Insider.com on the recent racist attacks against actress Laci Mosley who is cast in the reboot of iCarly, which will premiere on the Paramount+ streaming service this summer.
David Fott (Political Science) has received a research grant of $5,000 from the Institute for Humane Studies. He is writing a book on Cicero, Hume, and the future of liberal democracy.
Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) has had a selection of poetry, "The Rest is Silence," published in The Text magazine, Germany. The poetry is written in Russian.
Matthew S. Dentice (English) has written an opinion piece, "Anglo Saxonism and America's History of Racial Injustice" for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Religion and Ethics portal. This article explores the ways in which a persistent idealization of and identification with the Anglo-Saxons has fueled …
Renato "Rainier" M. Liboro (Psychology) and co-authors Paul A. Shuper (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada) and Lori E. Ross (University of Toronto) recently published an article, “Scaling Up Information Sharing on HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder: Raising Awareness and Knowledge Among Key Stakeholders," in SAGE Open journal.…
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) published an essay, "‘How Much More Must I Suffer?’: Post-Traumatic Stress and the Lingering Impact of Violence upon Enslaved People" in Slavery and Abolition, the leading academic journal for the study of slave and post-slave studies. This was a special issue dedicated to scholarship…
Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) recently was elected president of the New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society at its annual meeting hosted this year by Baylor University (though conducted online). During the meeting, for which he served as a program chair, he commented on a paper on "John Dewey, Moral Theory, and Intellectual Disability" with…