Kenyon Lee Whitman and Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), both faculty members in the Graduate Program in Higher Education, received a grant from the Governor's Office of Workforce Innovation (OWINN) to analyze two higher education policies using the Nevada P-20 to Workforce Research (NPWR) data system.…

Vanessa Vongkulluksn (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has been appointed as 1 of 5 editorial fellows for the Journal of Educational Psychology, the flagship journal of Division 15 Educational Psychology at the American Psychological Association (APA). In service of APA’s recent resolutions to address systemic…

Vuk Celic and Dan Wright (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) recently published "How is the memory conformity effect influenced by the relative power of the individuals involved?" in Applied Cognitive Psychology. They are interested in when people are learning information from others how the power roles each person…

Ung-Sang Lee and Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) are beginning work on a grant awarded by the National Science Foundation titled, Weaving Together Supports for the Academic Success and Racial Identity Development of Low Income and First-Generation AA&NHPI Students. This project is a research-…

Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) with co-authors Isaac Calvert, Spencer C. Weiler, Sterling Hilton (all BYU), Jason Kopanke (UNC), and Luke M. Cornelius (UNF) published "The Voice of Experience: A Multi-State Empirical Examination of Arming School District…

Dan Wright (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published "Methodological considerations and assumptions in social science survey research" in the Journal of the British Academy. This paper focuses on measurement of constructs used in survey research, focusing on identity resilience, health behaviors, and trust in science.

The UNLV Intercollegiate & Professional Sport Management (IPSM) program was selected as one out of 12 programs in the nation to compete in the 2024 National Sports Forum Case Cup Competition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on February 23-28. IPSM master's students Cheyne Sauceda (team captain), Meadow Eisenstein, Akash Prinja, and Roland…

LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has authored the CEDER Yearbook, a peer-reviewed book of educational research published by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's College of Education and Human Development. It is indexed in Books in Print, EBSCO's Education Research Complete, and EBSCO's…

Postdoctoral scholar of Learning Analytics Sarah M. Wolff (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and fellow members of the research advisory board of the Pablove Foundation (a U.S. pediatric cancer nonprofit organization) recently published "A case study of charitable investment impact assessment" in The Journal of Philanthropy…

With colleagues from the UK (Imperial College, Bath University, Brighton University), Dan Wright (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published "Psychological influences on COVID-19 preventive behaviours and vaccination engagement in the United Kingdom and the United States: the significance of ethnicity" in Journal of the…

Minkyo Lee (Intercollegiate and Professional Sport Management) earned the Best Paper Award at the 2023 Sport Entertainment & Venues Tomorrow (SEVT) conference held in Columbia, South Carolina. Lee led the study titled, "Building a university brand through intercollegiate athlete programs: A comparison of eSport and sport' in collaboration with…

Ph.D. candidate Kristine Jan C. Espinoza (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) is one of four authors who contributed to a commentary forum titled, "We Won’t Go Back: Asian Americans and Racial Justice After Affirmative Action," which was published in Amerasia Journal, an interdisciplinary journal in Asian American…