Chris Wood (Educational & Clinical Studies) has been awarded the prestigious American Counseling Association (ACA) Fellow Award. This honor is presented to less than 1 percent of the more than 56,000 ACA members. The ACA Fellow distinction is bestowed upon members of professional distinction who have been recognized for significant and unique…

The Multicultural Educational Services Alliance (MESA) Team (Education) was chosen from more than 90 applicants as a focus project at the national Teach to Lead Summit held in Washington, D.C., last month. The annual teacher preparation summit seeks to spotlight and advance groundbreaking research and work happening in states, districts, and…

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…

Danica G. Hays (Education) recently co-authored Standards for Multicultural Research for the counseling discipline. These guidelines are an output of her work on the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling (AARC) Diversity Committee; AARC is a division of the American Counseling Association. The guidelines are intended to promote…

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…

Cassandra Boyer, Jorge Adrian Castrejon, Jessica Nave-Blodgett, Andrew Ortiz, and Karl Wennerlind have been chosen to receive the fall 2016 Southwest Travel Awards. They were selected from among 150 student applicants. Recipients of the awards receive a round-trip travel voucher from Southwest Airlines to allow them to travel to a conference or…

Richard Miller (Music) and Katrina Liu (Teaching & Learning) are co-directors of a team from the School of Music and the College of Education that has received a $78,000 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grant. The grant is for the project "Learning about China through Music," which is a collaboration with the Clark County School District…

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…

David Vallett and Hasan Deniz (both Teaching and Learning) received $315,000 in funding from the Nevada Department of Education Mathematics and Science Partnership 2016-17 grant program entitled:  "Moving All Nevada Teachers through Awareness of the Nevada Academic Content Standards for Science (NVACSS) (MANTA)".  Leadership Team:…

Allison Smith (Education); Rosemary Flores (School of Public Policy and Leadership); Monica Hernández-Johnson, Norma Marrun, Jori Beck, and Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) received $335,224 in funding from the Nevada department of education (NDE) Great Teaching and Learning Fund (GTLF) for their “Abriendo Caminos/…