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Maddie Evans (Sociology) was quoted in a blog of the National Eating Disorders Association titled "Dear KJ: My Mother is Urging Me to Lose Weight for My Wedding. Help!"

Rhonda Smith (Sociology) wrote an item, "Unequal Aging in America," that appeared in the Everyday Sociology blog. 

Jennifer Reed (Sociology) was quoted in an article, "Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It," which appeared in Vice.

Felicia Campbell (English) earlier this month was profiled in an article in the Review-Journal titled "51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ's Longest-serving Faculty Member Talks about Her Life In, Out of Classroom."   

Tracy Johnson (Liberal Arts) and John Starkey (Business) presented at the 2016 NSHE Southern Diversity Summit. The presentation focused on how non-traditional students or adult learners on our campuses are ever increasing in numbers. Lifelong learning, career re-tooling, and re-entry into higher education calls for an integrated approach that is…

Ranita Ray (Sociology) recently was elected to serve as co-chair of the Sociologist for Women in Society's Sister to Sister Committee.

Timothy Erwin (English) recently was named a traveling lecturer for the Jane Austen Society of North America and will represent the organization at gatherings in Boise, Idaho; Tucson, Arizona; and Vancouver, British Columbia, this year. His Textual Vision: Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture (Bucknell…

Dmitri Shalin (Sociology) has been critically involved in the public sociology efforts through which American, British, and Canadian sociological associations have issued a statement in support of the Levada Center, a premier sociological research organization in Putin’s Russia that has been battling ideological headwinds.

Cassandra Boyer, Jorge Adrian Castrejon, Jessica Nave-Blodgett, Andrew Ortiz, and Karl Wennerlind have been chosen to receive the fall 2016 Southwest Travel Awards. They were selected from among 150 student applicants. Recipients of the awards receive a round-trip travel voucher from Southwest Airlines to allow them to travel to a conference or…

Andy Kirk (History) is the author of the new graphic history, Doom Towns: The People and Landscapes of Atomic History, which was released last week by Oxford University Press. The book grew out of Kirk's work over the past 10 years on the award-winning Department of History & Sociology, Nevada Test Site Oral History Project funded by the…

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) delivered a keynote address at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom during a multidisciplinary international symposium titled "After the Recognition of Intersex Human Rights."

During the 2016 summer, Gary Pullman, a part-time instructor in the Department of English, published seven online Listverse articles. An eighth has been accepted for publication and should appear soon. Top 10 Fascinating Insect Impostors 10 Intriguing Dollhouses That Aren't for Play 10 Deliberate Errors and Historical Misrepresentations 10…