Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Daniel Allen (Psychology) was awarded $672,779 from Nevada Department of Health and Human Services for the Nevada Rural Communities Mental Health Outreach Program (RHOP) and $186,909 for the RHOP Expansion program. RHOP provides telebehavioral health counseling services to adolescents living in Elko and Humboldt counties. RHOP Expansion provides…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a policy report, "The war in Ukraine is influencing how Taiwanese think about conflict," in Brookings. In this report, Wang summarizes recent academic publications on Taiwanese willingness to fight, and how the ongoing Ukraine crisis influences the public opinion in Taiwan.
John M. Bowers (English) has won the Dr. Catherine Gullo Bellver Career Achievement Award for his accomplishments in teaching, research, and service. He will be presented with a plaque and a check at the College of Liberal Arts Honors Convocation on April 23 in the Tam Alumni Center.
Safiyya Bintali (English) presented her paper, “'The Cat Didn’t Move, but You Did': Distance and Closeness in Ray Bradbury’s 'The Cat’s Pajamas,'” at Troy University's international Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature.
Jarret Keene (English) recently presented a talk connecting his desert wanderings with his writing of Western novels as part of "Roots of Wonder," a Curiosity Lab event held at the Vegas Theatre Company in downtown Las Vegas. Sponsored by the Desert Research Institute, Curiosity Lab is a series of community-based events across Nevada that…
Ph.D. candidate Liam Johnson (Anthropology), along with co-authors Ginesse A. Listi, Teresa V. Wilson, and Michael Leitner from the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University, recently published their chapter titled, "A Spatial Clustering Analysis of Missing Persons Data to Generate Spatially Informed Community…
Michelle Tusan (History) was a panelist for the Chamber of Commerce Women's History Month event.
Dan Lee and Tanner Bates (Political Science) published an article, "Explaining Variation in the Use of Electoral Fusion," in American Politics Research. The article analyzes fusion candidacies (minor party cross-nominations of major party candidates) in U.S. congressional elections in New York from 1978 to 2018. The authors highlight the impact of…
Kaelyn Griffin and Shane Kraus (both Psychology) and colleagues recently published three works as part of ongoing research collaborations through the 51ԹϺ Behavioral Addictions Lab.
The first paper, "An examination and validation of a short form of the Spiritual Abuse Questionnaire," was published in Spirituality in Clinical…
Joel Snyder (Psychology) and colleagues from around the world have published a Comment article in Nature Neuroscience titled, "What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?" It is accompanied by replies from two other groups of authors and relates to an ongoing debate about the scientific merits of the integrated information theory of…
Cheryl Abbate delivered a keynote talk, "Spiritualizing Animal Rights Theory," at the 2025 Rice University Graduate Animal Ethics Conference.
Daniel Allen (Psychology) was awarded $399,662 from Nevada Department of Health and Human Services and SAMHSA for the CHARGE UP program which provides coordinated specialty care treatment services to adolescents and young adults who are at high risk for developing a schizophrenia spectrum or other psychotic disorder.