Holmes Scholars Mayra Marquez-Mendez, Ph.D., and Anel Rojas (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented their work titled, "Unveiling the Labyrinth: Lived Experiences and Mentorship Needs of Latina Doctoral Students" at the 2025 Annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference. Their research…

Holmes Scholar Mayra Marquez-Mendez, Ph.D., (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Tina Vo, Ph.D., (Teaching and Learning) presented their work titled, “Understanding Science Teachers’ Support Needs: Assessing the Reliability of a Support-Seeking Instrument,” at the 2025 Annual American Educational Research…

Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) co-authored a research article with faculty colleagues from three other universities titled, "Structure and Longitudinal Invariance of the Multicultural Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills Survey – Counselor Edition – Revised," published in the Journal of Measurement…

Kenyon Lee Whitman (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) co-authored a paper in AERA Open titled "Secondary and Postsecondary Education Outcomes of Students with Experience in Foster Care: Systematic Review of the Literature From 2000–2023." This study provides a definitive publication that reports secondary and postsecondary…

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has been selected to serve as the Editor for the State of the States Special Issue of the Journal of Education Human Resources. This special issue highlights current trends, policy developments, and research related to education finance across the United States.

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has been elected to serve on the executive board for the National Education Finance Academy (NEFA). NEFA Board Members provide leadership and strategic guidance for the organization in advancing research, policy, and practice in education finance. Skousen was elected and…

Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education) presented a research project with her Master's students,  Rachel Dugan, Zihan Gong, and Mikayla Harris (Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program). The project, titled "The Aftermath of Parental Alienation: Coping Styles of Adult Children who Experienced Parental Alienation," was presented at the…

Omolola A. Odejimi (Educational Psychology) and co-author Leslie F. Clark (USC/CHLA) published an article titled, "Metacognition and the 5Cs of Positive Youth Development Programs: A Review of Metacognitive Interventions," in the Journal of Youth Development. This systematic review proposes metacognition as a mechanism by which PYD programs…

Megan R. Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Brian Woods (Center for Business and Economic Research) composed an expert panel for a special collaborative episode of Vegas PBS's Nevada Week and KNPR's State of Nevada that looked back at the COVID-19…

Danielle Mireles, Norma A. Marrun, and Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) co-authored a chapter titled, "Between hypervisibility and invisibility: Unpacking what it means to be an HSI on Indigenous lands through critical unearthing of local histories and epistemologies of Latinx communities," published in Contemporary issues in…

A multidisciplinary team from UNLV's Computer Science and Teaching & Learning departments was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. The team included: Edward Jorgensen (Computer Science), Marla Goins (Teaching &…

April Ursula Fox (Educational Psychology), author and editor, has published the STTAR - Storytelling with Tarot Anthology. Also available for digital download through Avantpop Publishing. This project was supported in part by the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV. STTAR is a collection of short stories by Las Vegas writers,…