Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Graduate students Pratik S. Paranjape and Tahoura Mohammadi Ghohaki, along with faculty member Samsoon Inayat (all Psychology), published a new article in Scientific Reports titled 鈥淎 transparent wheel-based platform for locomotion-on-demand and multi-view body and facial kinematics in head-fixed mice.鈥 The study introduces a modular behavioral鈥
Roberto Lovato's (English) book, Unforgetting, was mentioned in The New York Times Book Review as an example of a memoir that mines "family histories alongside larger legacies of violence and imperialism, complicating their authors鈥 relationship to the United States."
Melikabella Shenouda (Liberal Arts; Education) performed spoken word at TEDx Las Vegas. The second annual event was held at AC Element Symphony Park with the overarching theme of 鈥淧ast. Present. Possible.鈥.
Shenouda's composition, "Eclipse," encompasses themes of love, lust, and loss, with elements of comic relief. Through live performance鈥
Katherine Walker (English) published a chapter titled "Knowing Instincts in Shakespeare's Macbeth" in the collection Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early Modern English Stage (Edinburgh University Press), edited by Pavneet Aulakh and James Kearney.
Barbara Roth (Anthropology), Ph.D. student Danielle Romero (Anthropology), Scott Nicolay, and Roger Anyon published "The Elk Ridge Community in the Mimbres Pueblo World" in the most recent issue of American Antiquity.
Joshua Ch茅vere Cohen (Black Mountain Institute; English) presented his paper, "Shelley and the Poetics of Crisis and Resistance," at the Boiling Point graduate conference. He will present this paper later this year at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) convention in Ogden, Utah.
Other Boiling Point presenters included Tracie鈥
John Curry (History) presented a paper at a three-part symposium held at the University of California, Los Angeles, entitled "Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia, 1600鈥1800: Joseph Fletcher鈥檚 Plane Ride Revisited." The three-part symposium aimed to compare the three major empires of the Ottomans, Qing China, and the Mughal鈥
Diana Beltran and Rachael Robnett (both Psychology) recently published their paper, 鈥淢entoring, Academic Belonging, and Imposter Phenomenon Among Undergraduate Women: A Critical Feminist Perspective,鈥 in Education Sciences. Their mixed-methods study examined mentoring, imposter phenomenon, and academic belonging among undergraduate women through a鈥
Alumna Melanie Garcia published her honors thesis completed under the mentorship of graduate student Maegan Nation and faculty member Kara Christensen Pacella (all Psychology) in the Journal of American College Health. This project used a case-control design to compare eating disorder risk among documented and undocumented Latinx college students.
Richard Chang, Diana Beltran, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt, and Rachael Robnett (all Psychology) recently published their paper entitled, "鈥楩eeling out of place鈥: A mixed methods investigation of the impostor phenomenon among BIPOC and LGBTQ STEM college students" in Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. Their mixed-methods study鈥
Jesse Fitts' (Philosophy) paper, "ChatGPT Is Not Bullshit, nor Is It Not Not Bullshit," has been accepted for publication in Ethics and Information Technology.
Roberto Lovato (English) conducted a seminar 鈥 鈥淲rite Crisis: How to Write Your Truth Without Going Broke鈥 鈥 on May 2, 2026, at the Rooted and Written Conference, the first tuition-free professional writing conference and workshop for non-white writers in the United States. Lovato is the founder of Rooted and Written.