Dana Bickmore (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) and Marytza Gawlik (Florida State University) recently published the second of two edited volumes of research focused on the charter school principal, Unexplored Conditions of Charter School Principals: An Examination of the Issues and Challenges for Leaders. This second volume …

Howard R.D Gordon (Teaching & Learning) served as a panel speaker at the 2017 Southern Nevada Urban Agriculture and Food Sustainability Forum in August. The focus of the discussion was how "Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) and Career & Technical Education (CTE) Can Prepare the Future Agriculture Workforce Through…

Danica Hays (College of Education Executive Associate Dean & Professor), Chris Wood (Educational & Clinical Studies), Robert Milton Carlisle (Lamar University) and Shana L. Pribesh (Old Dominion University) were honored as recipients of the 2017 Outstanding Article Award from the Association for Counselor Education and…

Sharon Tettegah (Teaching & Learning) has been elected treasurer-elect of Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. The mission of the division is to expand and apply psychological knowledge and theory relevant to education and promote joint action with others having similar purposes in…

Danica Hays (College of Education) was selected as the recipient of the 2017 Publication Award from the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) for her book, Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence: A Systems Approach. This national award is presented to one individual per year and recognizes a publication of particular…

Dana Bickmore (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) and Marytza A. Gawlik (Florida State University) recently published the first of two edited volumes of research focused on the charter school principal. This first volume provides a foundational understanding of the charter school principalship through the lens of culture, mission ,and…

Three UNLV graduate students recently received a national Love of Learning Award from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. They are among 100 award recipients nationwide. Erick López, a doctoral student in sociology, will use funds from the award to travel to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to attend a research methods training titled "Health…

Kathy Ewoldt, Heike Rüdenauer, and Kristin Withey (all Educational and Clinical Studies) presented at the 30th annual Textbook and Academic Authoring Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, last week. The doctoral students chronicled their transition from consumers to authors of scholarly writing in their presentation, "Becoming an Academic Author…

Howard Gordon (Teaching and Learning) and Samantha Godbey (University Libraries) are co-editors of the Journal of Research in Technical Careers, a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the department of teaching and learning and hosted by UNLV Libraries. The journal published its inaugural issue in May.

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…

Alain Bengochea (Educational & Clinical Studies) has recently published a peer-reviewed article in Reading Research Quarterly titled "Maternal Inferential Input and Children's Language Skills" in which he and his co-authors explored the levels of abstraction and utterance functions in mother-child interactions during shared…

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."…