Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by the Center for Taiwan Studies at the University of Texas at Austin to have a talk on March 3, titled "Willingness to Fight in Asymmetric Wars." In this talk, Wang explains the psychological mechanisms behind the willingness to fight, especially when the cost and risk are high. Wang…
Daniel Allen (Psychology) was awarded $1,297,604 from Nevada Department of Health and Human Services for the POWER program which provides coordinated specialty care services for adolescents and adults who have recently begun to experience symptoms of bipolar and related disorders.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Immigration and Social Identity Formation" in The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Immigration, edited by Sahar Akhtar.
School Library Journal recently praised the Decide & Survive series, featuring The Attack on Pearl Harbor: Can You Stop the Attack? interactive adventure, for grades 3 to 7, by Jarret Keene (English): "Vivid graphics help bring the history of the attack on Pearl Harbor [...] to life. Verdict: Recommended to teachers and students who love new…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) has been appointed to the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Hispanics/Latinxs.
Rakshitha Mohankumar, Katie T. Singsank, Brenna N. Renn (all Psychology) and Samantha E. John (Brain Health) recently published a chapter entitled "Mental Status Examination" in the text "Diagnostic Interviewing (6th Edition)." This guide for emerging and seasoned clinicians centers on clinical description and the pragmatics of “how to” conduct…
Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) was named a 2025 Association for Psychological Science Rising Star. According to APS, “this designation recognizes researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.”
Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology), Graham McGinnis (Kinesiology and Nutrition), and colleagues recently published a new paper, "Associations between intraindividual variability in weekday-weekend sleep timing and duration and eating disorder pathology," in Eating Behaviors.
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Motives for pornography use and women's sexual wellbeing: Insights from a 42-country study," in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions.
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Identification and comprehensive characterization of moral…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "How Mexico's Forensic Anthropologists Are Resisting Forensic Extractivism" as part of the panel "Social Philosophy in Mexico" organized by the North American Society for Social Philosophy for the Central Division annual conference of the American Philosophical Association.
On Feb. 22, Christopher D. E. Willoughby (African American Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender and Ethnic Studies) published a review of the book Searching for Dr. Harris: The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician in The Lancet, one of the world's leading medical journals.
Jarret Keene's (English) Heroes of WWII: 25 True Stories of Unsung Heroes Who Fought for Freedom made the 2025 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People award list in the third to fifth grade category. Running since 1972, the list is an annual project of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the Children's Book Council (…