Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Roberto Lovato (English) participated on a panel about immigrant and non-immigrant resistance to ICE. The Migrant Realities of Work and Care Conference took place at Stanford University on May 1, 2026.
Roberto Lovato (English) delivered a talk-seminar — Poet Warriorship: Writing as a Form of Resistance — on April 29, 2026, to students and faculty at Stanford University's El Centro Chicano y Latino.
Paul Vincent Ruma (Anthropology) was an invited speaker at California State University, East Bay’s Music, Identity & Wellness Summit, held May 1, 2026.
Ruma led a story-driven lecture and interactive workshop on mental health, resilience, and identity through Hip Hop culture, incorporating his co-authored book These Are the Breaks! as part of…
Rebecca Gill (Political Science) and coauthors Christopher Zorn (Penn State University) and Jennie Sweet-Cushman (Chatham University) won the 2026 Jewell Limar Prestage Best Paper Award from the Southwestern Political Science Association for their paper “Gender and the Misperception of Women’s Representation in State Legislatures and Congress…
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) spoke with KTNV, Channel 13 News in Las Vegas. I provided reflections upon Ruby Duncan's legacy of activism in the Las Vegas valley, noting it is important to continue her human rights campaign in the modern era.
Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) was invited to participate at the biennial conference of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, held at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, from April 16 to April 18, 2026.
Her presentation, titled “Feature Reassembly and Syntactic Constraints in L2 French and English…
Lilla Brody, Berlyn Fife, Sataya Otoo, and Brenna Renn (all Psychology) published their manuscript, "Methodological Considerations for Comorbidity of Anxiety and Depression in Later-Life Psychotherapy Trials: A Scoping Review" in the Clinical Gerontologist. This paper reviewed 91 randomized controlled trials of psychotherapy for anxiety and/or…
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published three articles:
Compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) and problematic pornography use (PPU): A comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and expert-informed narrative review with suggested future directions was published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions. …
Tyler D. Parry (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave a presentation about his recent article, "Canines: Enforcing Race and State," during the 2026 Organization of American Historians annual conference. His presentation was part of a panel analyzing the role of animals in historical records, based upon a forum published by the…
Nicole Short (Psychology) was recently awarded the Donald F. Klein Early Career Investigator Award from the Anxiety & Depression Association of America (ADAA) at its annual conference in Chicago. The Donald F. Klein award is awarded annually to an early career investigator for the best original research paper on neurobiology,…
Erin Zimmerman, ÐÔÊӽ紫ý Writing Center director and managing editor of Center Moves: A Peer-Reviewed Archive of Tutor Training Materials announces Issue 5 of the publication. The issue concerns working with writers across disciplines and checking in with writers.
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) was interviewed by Fox5 during a rally she co-organized in response to the current Bureau of Land Management (BLM) roundups of Nevada's wild horses and burros.