Shaoan Zhang and Katrina Liu (both Teaching and Learning), along with Guoxiang Wang and Michael Strong (both at Texas Tech University), published an article, “Preservice Teacher Professional Commitment: A Literature Review and Conceptual Model,” in the premier teacher education journal Teaching and Teacher Education. Wang was a doctoral student in…

Shaoan Zhang, Mark Carroll, Chengcheng Li (all Teaching and Learning), and Emily Lin (Graduate College) wrote "Supporting Part-time Students in Doctoral Programs: A Technology-based Situated Learning Model," which was published in Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education.   Shaoan Zhang, Chengcheng Li, and Danny Unger (all Teaching…

Heather Dahl (Counselor Education, School Psychology, & Human Services), Tina Vo (Teaching & Learning), and Margarita Huerta (Early Childhood, Multilingual, & Special Education) recently published an article, "Using a Science Literacy Lens to Conceptualize Anxiety around COVID 19: Strategies for Human Services…

Michelle A. Arroyo (Teaching & Learning) published a chapter, "The Social and Emotional Issues of Teacher's Professional Identity Development," in the textbook Leading Schools With Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (SEAD)

Xue "Cher" Xing (Teaching and Learning) recently was selected as a Fellow in the 2021 Postsecondary Leadership Success Program at Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) – sponsored by ECMC Foundation. The goal of the program is to support current and aspiring leaders in career and technical education (CTE) and provide professional…

Alfred Acquah (Teaching and Learning) published a peer-reviewed article on "Higher Education Finance Between Ghana and the United States" in the journal Current Issues of Comparative Education. The paper comparatively analyzes higher education funding sources in Ghana and the U.S., considering both countries' goals for higher…

Norma A. Marrun, De'Ana R. Mauldin, and Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning), along with Tara J. Plachowski, '19 PhD Teacher Education, published an article, “Teachers Don’t Really Encourage It”: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of High School Students’ of Color Perceptions of the Teaching Profession," in Multicultural Education…

Travis A. Olson (Teaching & Learning) began his two-year term as the president of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning (RCML) on Feb. 28. During the past year, he has served on the council's Executive Board as president-elect. Three years prior to that, Olson served on the RCML Executive Board as secretary. After his term as…

Marcela Rodriguez-Campo (Teaching & Learning) published the article "Testimonio in Education" in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. The article explores the historical origins and functions of testimonio in order to understand how it has been adopted within educational settings as a pedagogy and method for decolonial work.…

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…