In The News: College of Liberal Arts
In 2020, the sleeping giant has awakened.
Stephen Benning, a UNLV psychology professor, directs the school’s Psychophysiology of Emotion and Personality laboratory, which looks at the intersection of emotional processes and bodily responses. Who better to query about the fluctuating satisfaction of online togetherness during quarantine?
A new poll shows Joe Biden leading in Nevada but both campaigns continue to run hard there, as the Democratic presidential nominee’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, held rallies in the state and President Trump made plans to appear just across the border in Arizona.
Local sponsors hope to install what are touted as inscribed replicas of the nation’s three founding documents – the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution – on public land in Washoe County. Who could be opposed to that?
If any single category of voter has come to define the chaotic race for 2020, it is the American suburbanite.
If any single category of voter has come to define the chaotic race for 2020, it is the American suburbanite.
This year we have lost two legendary UNLV faculty members.
The home where pioneering LGBTQ and civil rights activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin lived for more than five decades may become a local historic landmark, as the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has taken the first step towards giving it that designation. The two women may be best known as the first same-sex couple to marry legally in San Francisco, but the legacy of these mothers of our movement is bigger than that.
2016 might feel like the distant past. Yet, Pennsylvania voters are little changed in their party registrations from four years ago, records show.
Growing up in Canton, a small city in northeast Ohio, Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) spent much of her childhood at the local Jewish Community Center, where she swam and worked as a lifeguard. Her mother also taught swimming lessons there, and several of Lee’s seven siblings worked as lifeguards.
In 2016, nearly all major metropolitan areas voted for Hillary Clinton, including the counties that generate nearly two-thirds of the U.S. economy. In 2018, voters in the nation’s big blue metros returned Democrats to the majority in the House and drove the party’s senate pick-ups in Arizona and Nevada. They also secured gubernatorial victories in several other states. Suburbs in particular played an outsized role in the blue shift.
In 2016, nearly all major metropolitan areas voted for Hillary Clinton, including the counties that generate nearly two-thirds of the U.S. economy. In 2018, voters in the nation’s big blue metros returned Democrats to the majority in the House and drove the party’s senate pick-ups in Arizona and Nevada. They also secured gubernatorial victories in several other states. Suburbs in particular played an outsized role in the blue shift.
