Kenneth Varner, Steven Bickmore, P. G. Schrader (all Teaching and Learning), and Danica G. Hays (Education), along with David L. Carlson (University of Arizona) and Dorothea Anagnostopolous (University of Connecticut) just had their second edited volume of the Corona Chronicles released from DiO Press. This volume, the second of two,…

Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching & Learning) and Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) have published the article, "Efficacy of Meditation-Based Interventions on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Among Veterans: A Narrative Review" in the journal Advances in Mind-Body Medicine in association with Taj Haider of Civic Center (New…

Travis A. Olson (Teaching and Learning) is the UNLV principal investigator for a group that produced the article,"Geometric Reflections: Why Should They Not Be Just a Flip?,"  which published in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' Mathematics Teacher: Teaching & Learning PK-1. The article is based on a currently running…

Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning) served as lead author on the article "Physical activity interventions targeting perceived body image among adolescent girls" published in the Journal of Physical Education and Sport in collaboration with colleagues Manoj Sharma (Environmental and Occupational Health), Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor…

Chyllis Scott (Teaching and Learning) and her colleagues, UNLV alum Fawn Canady, '06 Master of Education and '17 PhD Curriculum and Instruction, now of Sonoma State University, and and Troy Hicks of Central Michigan University, published an article “Walking a Thin Line”: Exploring the Tensions Between Composition Curriculum and Students’ Lives as…

Stephanie Loomis (Teaching and Learning) has published a chapter, Mobile Phones, Arts Integration, and English Language Arts, in the book Affordances and Constraints of Mobile Phone Use in English Language Arts Classrooms.  This chapter considers the affordances of smartphones as tools for arts integration in English language arts…

Kenny Varner (Teaching and Learning) gave the keynote address, "Die Überschreitung des Globalen und des Lokalen: Bedeutung und Bedeutungsherstellung durch das Glokale," ("Transcending the Global and the Local: Meaning Making and Making Meaning Through the Global") at the Internationalization of Teacher Education: Reflective Practice…

Michael McCreery, Danielle Head, Joseph Fiorentini, Sam Leif, Le Quanda Cole, and Catherine Bacos (all Teaching and Learning) earned the Best Paper Award at the 17th International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age for their paper "Time to Acclimate: Examining the Influence of Cognitive Ability on Situating…

Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) co-authored with selected mentees from University of Central Missouri, Murray State University, and Marshall University "Career and Technical Education Leadership Self-Efficacy Scale," which appeared in Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity this month

Manoj Sharma (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching & Learning) presented two poster presentations at 148th virtual annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. The first one was, “Efficacy of Meditation-based Interventions on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among Veterans.” The second was “…

Iesha Jackson (Teaching and Learning), Doris L. Watson (Educational Psychology and Higher Education), Marcie Gallo (History), and Claytee White (Oral History Center) gave their second of two peer review presentations on their collaborative project, Digging Deep and Branching Out: Using Oral History and Collaborative Inquiry to Explore Candidate…

Chad Scott (Teaching and Learning) is presenting a performance installation, “How to Explain Electoral Politics Without Splitting Hares,” at Available Space Art Projects (ASAP). This exhibition is the first project of an ongoing collaboration with the Gayle A. Zeiter Literacy Development Center, where Scott serves as an interdisciplinary artist-in…