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College of Liberal Arts News

The College of Liberal Arts offers students a well-rounded education in the humanities and social sciences. Students develop strong analytical and communication skills for a lifetime of learning and discovery that can be applied to a wide variety of careers.

Current Liberal Arts News

A psychology lab researcher tracks the eye movements of a toddler through the eye-tracker.
Campus News |

Take a look inside the UNLV lab studying how small humans see others — and learn how you and your child can participate.

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Research |

The platform transforms UNLV’s research infrastructure, enhances the university’s data-driven culture, and supports strategic decision-making to expand faculty opportunities.

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Campus News |

Week-long program uncovers the 'hidden curriculum' in graduate education for students in STEM disciplines.

Gretchen Grierson sits on a gray chair in her office
People |

From her career to her philanthropy, the Liberal Arts Alumna of the Year is always quick to lend a helping hand (and ear).

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Campus News |

The Top Tier initiative is aimed at unifying the university’s health sciences programs.

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People |

The former English department chair and American lit buff will support faculty and help develop their teaching and research.

Liberal Arts In The News

NPR

The Democrats' not-so-secret weapon in Nevada is an army of service workers from the Culinary Workers Union who have been helping deliver the party victories for several elections.

Yahoo!

When Sam Thomas was 15 years old, he learned the word “bulimia” by reading an advice column in the paper. The person who had written in seeking help was a single mother who binged and purged after her children went to bed. While Thomas didn’t relate to her situation, he immediately recognized the behavior. He hadn’t known before that moment that what he was doing had a name.

InsuranceNewsNet

The insurance industry contributed more than $60 million during the current 2023-24 election cycle, according to Open Secrets, a nonprofit organization tracking campaign donations and lobbying. There are more donations to be counted before the Nov. 5 election, but the insurance industry is well behind the $127 million donated in the 2019-20 election cycle. The off-year 2021-22 election cycle netted $83 million in donations from insurers.

Huffington Post

When Sam Thomas was 15 years old, he learned the word “bulimia” by reading an advice column in the paper. The person who had written in seeking help was a single mother who binged and purged after her children went to bed. While Thomas didn’t relate to her situation, he immediately recognized the behavior. He hadn’t known before that moment that what he was doing had a name.

Sky News

The style choices of politicians have long been scrutinised by voters and the media. Women have historically been subject to more inspection for their looks than men. But all politicians are communicating through their style, according to two experts.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Paradise is an unincorporated township that encompasses large swaths of the Las Vegas Strip and has a unique history regarding its name dating back to the turn of the 20th century. Technically UNLV’s campus, Harry Reid International Airport and most of the casinos on the Strip are not within the city of Las Vegas, but located within Clark County and Paradise.

Liberal Arts Experts

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An expert in prehistoric Native Americans of the Southwest
An expert in auditory perception, cognition, cognitive neuroscience, and perceptual abnormalities in schizophrenia.
An expert on child psychology, anxiety, and school absenteeism

Recent Liberal Arts Accomplishments

Kara Christensen Pacella and graduate student Maegan Nation (both Psychology) published a new paper in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, "Negative Affect as a Mediator Between Exposure to Fitspiration and Thinspiration and Disordered Eating Behaviors: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study." They found that, among young women with…
Roberto Lovato (English) joined Pulitzer prize winning authors, MacArthur Geniuses, and other creatives at the "The Border is a Story" conference organized at the Los Angeles campus of Arizona State University from September 19 to the 22. He delivered a talk on his current research, titled "Of Love & Luminous Feathers: Unbordering Stories…
Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology) published a paper with co-authors at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill in the international Journal of Epidemiology. The article, titled "Data Resource Profile: Add Health Mortality Outcomes Surveillance," describes newly available mortality data for The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to…
Katherine Walker (English) received a short research fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library to work on her book The Grift of Renaissance Magic. 
Dr. Noria Litaker's (History) book, Bedazzled Saints: Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria (University of Virginia Press) has been shortlisted for the Ecclesiastical History Society's 2024 Book Prize.  The prize recognizes the best first monograph on the history of Christianity published during the previous calendar year.  
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published an op-ed, "As the TPP Faces Controversy, Will Third Parties Disappear From Taiwan Politics?" in The Diplomat. In this article, Wang analyzed the 2024 Taiwan Presidential and Congressional elections and recent surveys, and argued that many Taiwanese voters will still support the third…