Susanna Newbury (Art) has published The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles, with the University of Minnesota Press. A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles, the book argues that art and urban…
Mayra Corn, Amy Tureen, and Xiaoyin Zhang (all Libraries) contributed a poster, "Improving Job Advertisements," to the Association of College & Research Libraries 2021 Conference. Corn also presented the poster, "Ascending During Crisis: How an Academic Library provided PPE to their…
Marta Soligo (Sociology and International Gaming Institute) and Josiah Kidwell (Sociology) published two chapters in the academic eBook COVID-19: Sociological Scenarios. Soligo’s chapter (in Italian), “The Sociology of Tourism and COVID-19: The Case of Las Vegas,” is a sociological…
Kelsey George and Amanda Melilli (both Libraries) presented their research, "What’s in a Name?: The Impact of LGBTQIA+ Terminology in the Discovery of Inclusive Fiction for Young People in Curriculum Material Collections," to the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) 2021…
Ching-Chen Chen, Jared Lau, and Chris Wood (all Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) presented a virtual educational session, "Promoting International Scholarly Collaborations and Counseling Internship Abroad," with two international scholars, Wei-Wen Chen (Macau)…
Patrice Leverett and Samuel Song (both Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published their article, "The Effect of Program Mission on Students: Developing a Program Assessment System for Social Justice Training," in School Psychology Training and Pedagogy.…
Monica Arebalos (Medicine), who is an MD candidate, was asked an unexpected number of questions about her recently published paper on sex trafficking red flags, "Sex Trafficking Red Flags: Confirming Presentation Patterns and Childhood Adversity Risk Factors," during her match interviews with…
Brittany Paloma Fiedler and Brittani Sterling (both Libraries) will be presenting their contributed paper, "Conference Critique: An Analysis of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Programming," at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2021 Virtual Conference.
Fiedler also…
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) presented an invited (virtual) talk titled "Animals and the Meaning They Bring to Our Lives" for the Lund University Philosophy Society.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented commentary on Allison B. Wolf's Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account as part of a symposium organized by the department of philosophy and Centro de Estudios en Migración at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Marta Soligo (Sociology and International Gaming Institute) was interviewed for the sociology podcast "The Social Breakdown." Soligo explored the sociology of tourism, especially the relationship between COVID-19 and the travel industry. She discussed the role of tourism in Las…
Emily Lapworth (Libraries) had an article, "Assessing Large-scale Digitization Using Web Analytics," published in Digital Library Perspectives, a journal devoted to current trends, initiatives, and developments around digital content collections.