Travis Hammond (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) received the Hammill Institute on Disabilities Doctoral Fellowship, which is a competitive fellowship that recognizes doctoral students across the nation who are committed to serving the field of special education. Doctoral fellows receive a scholarship amount to…

Rebecca Nathanson (Law; Education) presented a paper, Preparing children for court: An overview of court preparation programs and essential components of programs for children, at the 2024 American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference in Los Angeles on March 23, 2024.  

Rebecca Nathanson (Law; Education) chaired a session, Competency Interventions and Restoration, at the 2024 American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference in Los Angeles. 

Rebecca Nathanson (Law; Education) presented a paper, The Kids’ Court School Competency Remediation Program: Overview and update on analyses of efficacy, at the 2024 American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference in Los Angeles. 

College of Education doctoral students and faculty Jenna Weglarz-Ward, Kendra Cope, Michela Carattini, and Marissa Rakos (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented at the Council for Exceptional Children's 2024 Annual Convention and Expo March 13-17 in San Antonio, Texas. Cope, Carattini, and Rakos presented as session…

Karly Van Holten (Service Learning and Leadership; First-Year Higher Ed. Ph.D. student) and Brooklyn Cruz (Nevada Treasurer's Office) presented "I Ain’t One of Your Little Friends…But I Am," an interactive workshop on empowering students through leadership opportunities at the Southern Nevada Black Educators Initiative's "Educators Conference…

Jenna Weglarz-Ward and Melissa Yarczower (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with Cyndy Anang (UNLV Alum 2023, Nevada State University) and Maryssa Mitsch (UNLV Alum 2017, San Francisco State University), and Jessica Branch (Murray State University) published an article in the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher…

Joseph Morgan (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), Ph.D., is the recipient of this year's Outstanding Department Chair Award. Morgan is professor and chair of the Department of Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education. He is being recognized for his strong leadership skills, effective administration,…

Alain Bengochea and Tracey West (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented "Monolingual & multilingual in-service teachers’ conceptualization of translanguaging pedagogy in a teacher preparation program" in a paper session at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference. Employing systemic functional…

Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) published "'Educational Facials': A Healing Tool for the Beautiful Struggle" with coauthor Michelle Cody.

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health), Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Sidath Kapukotuwa, Liliana Davalos, Laurencia Bonsu (all Social and Behavioral Health) published an article titled, “Theory-based antecedents…

Ph.D. candidate Kristine Jan Cruz Espinoza (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) is one of five scholars across the United States who was awarded a NASPA 2024 Channing Briggs Small Research Grant Award ($5,000 research grant award). This small research grant award will support Espinoza's project, "An Exploratory…