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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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,  "…

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/…

Refika Turgut (Teaching and Learning) and Margarita Huerta (Educational and Clinical Studies), along with Elif Adibelli Sahin of TED University in Ankara, Turkey, recently published the manuscript "Changes in Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of Preparedness to Teach English Language Learners (ELLs) in Mainstream Classrooms" in the Journal of…

Steven Bickmore (Teaching and Learning) writes a weekly academic blog on young adult literature. He writes twice a month and has guest academic contributors every other week. His post on June 15, "Say His Name!" was a personal response to the horrible event in Orlando. On June 22, the literacy blog of the National Council of Teachers of English…

Howard Gordon (Teaching & Learning) was named president of the Association for Career and Technical Education Research at the recent 2014 conference in Nashville, Tenn. He will serve a two-year term of office.

Cynthia Clark (Teaching and Learning) has published a study, "Teacher Candidate Technology Integration: For Student Learning or Instruction?" in the Journal of Digital Learning and Teacher Education. The co-authors are Shaoan Zhang and Neal Strudler (both Teaching and Learning). The study applied transfer of learning theory to the examination of…