Madeline (Maddy) Anderson, Erika Busbee, and Melissa Barber recently presented on "Leveraging Hybrid Teams In the Modern Certification Environment" at the Western Association of Veteran Education Specialists (WAVES) conference held this year in Reno, Nevada. The trio are VA School Certifying Officials (SCOs) on staff within the UNLV Military & Veteran Services Center (MVSC).

In 1996, WAVES became the training conference for all SCOs under the umbrella of the VA's Regional Processing Office in Muskogee, Oklahoma; 2023 was the first year that WAVES invited seasoned SCOs to provide breakout presentations to attendees.

The MVSC, a unit housed under Student Wellness, supports more than 1,800 veterans, active duty service members, persons in the Reserve or National Guard, and military families. UNLV's MVSC has been twice designated as a Top 10 Military Friendly (R) School within the last three years and is the home of two recent Student Veterans of America national 'Student Veteran of the Year' awardees: Alexandra Sawin (2018) and Andrew Ho (2020).