Tara Nerida (Social and Behavioral Health), Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Brain Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning) published an article titled, “COVID-19 vaccine acceptance behavior among Hispanics/Latinxs in…

Danica G. Hays (Education), dean and professor, recently co-authored the text, Counseling Theory and Practice (Cognella Publishing).

LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was asked to present as the opening keynote for the 2023 National Mortar Board week. She will present, "The Tenets of Leadership, Diversity and Equity are More than a Trend." Mortar Board Week commemorates the founding of Mortar Board with a weeklong celebration,…

Steven W. Payne (Early Childhood, Multicultural, and Special Education) published an article, "Cross-Species Replication of Functional Analysis Methodology," in Applied Animal Behaviour Science. This article reviews the literature trends in the burgeoning area of the functional analysis of problem behavior of non-human animals…

Assistant professor Federick Ngo and doctoral student Dañelle Sundell (both Higher Education) co-authored an article titled, "Inequities at the intersection of race and disability: Evidence from community colleges," in the journal Race Ethnicity and Education. The study examines how multiple marginalization based on both race and disability result…

Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) recently published her article, "Healing-Centered Educator Activism in Mathematics Actualized by Women of Color Mathematics Teacher Activists," in the journal, Equity and Excellence in Education.

Marla Goins (Teaching and Learning) published an article in Comparative Education Review titled, "Diva’s Culturally Sustaining Black Feminism: Tales from an Afro-Brazilian Teacher-Activist-Mother." The article centers an Afro-Brazilian woman named Diva, who promoted a culturally sustaining praxis during a politically divisive time. Diva works to…

Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) co-authored an article in Review of Education, titled, “A review of the methodological characteristics of vocabulary interventions for emergent bilinguals in preschool to sixth grade.“

Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published a multi-method study, "School‐based mental health supports COVID‐19:School professional perspectives," on how school mental health professionals' adapted service delivery to students during remote…

Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) recently published an article in The Journal of Mathematical Behavior titled, "The stories we tell: Why unpacking narratives of mathematics is important for teacher conocimiento," with her collaborators Rochelle Gutiérrez and Marrielle Myers, as part of their work on their Spencer Large Research Grant on…

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was appointed associate editor for The Review of Higher Education (RHE), the official journal of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). RHE is considered one of the leading research journals in the field as it keeps scholars, academic…

April Ursula Fox (Education) recently published a high fantasy book titled, Goblins! of the Neverending Lands - Book 1: Unlikely Heroes. It is the first in a series of three books coming out this year, and available at the TDRL Library at UNLV. "In the Neverending Lands, a group of goblins are about to uncover a series of…