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Clariana Ramos de Oliveira (Nursing) and colleagues have published a new study in the Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health. Using data from a birth cohort of 992 mother-child pairs in southern Brazil, the study found that elevated maternal depression, anxiety, and distress during the perinatal period were significantly associated with…

Nevada's Indian Territory recognized Tammi Tiger (Hospitality), director of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Tribal Education Initiative, for Travel Nevada's Excellence in Tourism Awards. Nevada’s tourism industry came together last week for the 32nd annual Rural Roundup. Held this year at the Aquarius Casino Resort in Laughlin, Rural…

Elisha Longoria (Graduate and Professional Student Association; Student Affairs) was selected as the national recipient of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge 2025 Student Voting Honor Roll. This year’s Student Voting Honor roll recognizes 232 students compared to 137 students in 2024. These students were at the forefront of supporting their…

Assistant professor Jingchun Chen and undergraduate students Melika Cummings, Tyrell Pratt, Alice Lee, Eunjae Lee, Jennifer Zheng, Faria Tavacoli (all Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) presented at the 2025 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), a premier academic event that celebrates undergraduate achievements across…

Javon Johnson (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies), associate professor of African American Studies and renowned poet, began coaching a slam poetry team in Las Vegas in January 2025 and, in March 2025, the team won its first major poetry slam tournament in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

On April 14, Roberto Lovato (English) was interviewed by Emma Vigeland and the popular Majority Report podcast and radio show about the historic meeting between President Trump and Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.  

Roberto Lovato (English) wrote an article for The Nation magazine about "The Deadly Seriousness Behind Trump and Bukele’s 'Joke'," which analyzes what Trump and the U.S. are learning from Bukele and what people in this country can learn from the long history of anti-fascist struggle in El Salvador.

Stephen Bates (Journalism and Media Studies) addressed the Antitrust and Competition Conference at the University of Chicago on April 10. The conference theme was Economic Concentration and the Marketplace of Ideas. Bates spoke on the opening panel.

Cyrus Ford (Libraries) is the winner of the Libraries' Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award. Ford was nominated for his significant inclusive cataloging work, increasing accuracy and representation within 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s local catalog and the Library of Congress Subject Headings. At 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ, he manually reviewed and updated hundreds of records to follow the…