Clariana Ramos de Oliveira (Nursing) presented her work, "Neighborhood Violence and Its Impact on Maternal Mental Health, Parenting and Early Child Development Among Young Mothers and Children in Brazil," at the 2025 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) in Minneapolis this month. The international conference was…

April Ursula Fox (Educational Psychology) presented the session titled, "Making Science Education Memorable with Zines at the Natural History Museum: A Mixed Methods Study," at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2025. The session offered a deep dive into her current research on the use of Zines as educational tools that…

Katherine Walker (English) was an invited speaker at the symposium, "Usable Temporalities: Time and Writing in Early Modern Almanacs and Calendars," in Fribourg, Switzerland. 

Students from the special education doctoral program presented at the Nevada Association for the Education of Young Children (NevAEYC) conference on April 25-26. Turia Penkalski (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented a session titled, "Supporting the Inclusion of Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities with Pyramid…

Associate professor Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented three sessions at the recent Nevada Association for the Education of Young Children (NevAEYC) and Division for Early Childhood (NVDEC) annual conference. Her sessions centered around supporting young children with disabilities and their families…

Asma Awan, Timothy Grigsby, and  Christopher Johansen, (all Social and Behavioral Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health and Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine) presented a poster titled, "Explaining the Correlates of the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change in Visual…

Noehealani Antolin, Selam Ayele, Blessing Imade, Ana L. Reyes, Kavita Batra, and Deborah A. Kuhls (all Medicine) presented a poster titled, “Risky Driving and Mental Health Among U.S. Veterans: A Rapid Review to Inform Injury and Disability Prevention,” at the North Las Vegas VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System’s 100 Years of VA Research…

Sigrid Barrett and Andrew Thomas Reyes (both Nursing) have been honored with the prestigious Tanglaw Awards by the Philippine Nurses Association of Nevada. At the awards ceremony held on Saturday, May 10, 2025, Barrett received the Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her exceptional career and lasting contributions to the field of nursing…

Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) published a paper in Ethnic and Racial Studies titled, "The Affective Bargain: How the Latino Children of Immigrants Create Joy, Love, and Pride Through Mariachi.”