John Mercer, Janet Dufek, James Navalta, Aaron Prado (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology) co-authored “A First Look into the Influence of Triathlon Wetsuit on Resting Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Variability.” The article, which reported little to no wetsuit influence, published in the March issue of…

Nancy Lough, James Hines (both Educational Psychology and Higher Education), and Margo Malik (Athletics) participated in the Sport and Recreation Law Association's 30th annual conference in Las Vegas this month. Lough, the invited keynote speaker, titled her talk, "If We Build It, Will They Come? Considering 30 Years of Sport Law and Policy."…

Matt Bernacki (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) and Cam Johnson (Office of Information Technology) headed a research team of UNLV staff and students that has won a 2016 Splunk Public Sector Innovation Award. The group received the Mission Award for Education during the Splunk GovSummit Conference in Washington, D.C., last month. The…

Dana Bickmore (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) and colleagues Patti Kinney (Kinney Consulting) and Nancy Flowers (University of Illinois) were invited by the American Middle Level Education Association (AMLE) to speak at its annual conference in Austin, Texas.  The title of the presentation was The Effective Middle Grade…

E. Michael Nussbaum (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) has been elected president-elect of Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association, and will serve as president in 2017-18.  The mission of the division is to expand and apply psychological knowledge and theory relevant to education and promote…

Doris Watson, Kim Nehls (both Educational Psychology & Higher Education) and Shaoan Zhang (Teaching and Learning) have recently been published in Storey & Hesbol (Eds.) (2016) Contemporary Approaches to Dissertation Development and Research Methods (New York: IGI-Global Publishers).  Watson and Nehls contributed chapter 4,  "…

UNLV's Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education project (TILT Higher Ed) (Provost's Office) is the focus of the current issue of the journal Peer Review, published by the Association of American Colleges & Universities. A research article by UNLV's Mary-Ann Winkelmes (Provost's Office), Matthew Bernacki (Educational Psychology…

Dana Bickmore and Patti Chance (both Educational Psychology & Higher Education) of the newly formed educational policy and leadership program in the College of Education, received a Great Teacher and Leader Fund grant from the Nevada department of education. In partnership with the Clark County School District (CCSD), the grant will provide…

Katherine Dockweiler, LeAnn Putney (both Educational Psychology and Higher Education), and Teresa Jordan (Environmental and Public Affairs) are the authors of the article “Enhancing the Policy Analysis Process: Case Studies Using the Layers of Analysis Framework," appearing in the Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research. The Layers of…

Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) presented "Strengths-based Leadership and Team Building" to the Ethnic Minorities and Women in Coaching and Leadership Conference at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in May. She followed that with a presentation on "Media Representation and Marketing of Women Athletes" at the FLAME (…

Michael Nussbaum (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) has written a textbook, Categorical and Nonparametric Statistics: Choosing the Best Statistical Technique, published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. The book is suitable as a reference text for those conducting research in the social sciences or biostatistics. It presents…

Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) will be honored as a Sport Marketing Association Research Fellow at the group's annual conference in Philadelphia in October. The Sport Marketing Association Research Fellow designation recognizes individual scholars who have shown excellence in the area of sport marketing research,…