Jared Lau (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) received the Locke-Paisley Outstanding Mentor Award at the 2023 Association for Counselor Education and Supervision national conference in Denver, Colorado on Oct. 14. The Locke-Paisley award honors an individual who has been a significant mentor to graduate counseling…

Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) with colleagues Ching-Chen Chen and Jungnam Kim (both Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) received a Secondary Analysis of Head Start and Early Head Start Data grant from the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health…

Tamekia Bell (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published "Recognizing Ableism and Practicing Disability Humility: Conceptualizing Disability Across the Lifespan" in Adultspan Journal. 

Jungnam Kim (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published the manuscript “Black males and school counselors: Do they experience the culture in counseling programs and departments differently from Black females?” in the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. She worked alongside colleagues (Julia Bryan and…

Heather Dahl-Jacinto (PI) and Wendy Hoskins (Co-I) (both Counselor Education, School Psychology and Human Services), along with colleague Katherine Shirley (Co-I) of Bellevue University, were awarded $2,950 by the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision for their proposal “Counselors in Training with Clients in Crisis: A Sandtray…

Chia Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Exploring yoga behaviors among college students based on the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change,” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and…

Jared Lau (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) has been elected as the 2023-2026 secretary of Counselors for Social Justice (CSJ), an official national division of the American Counseling Association. CSJ works to promote social justice in our society through confronting oppressive systems of power and privilege that…

Samuel Song (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) was recognized as one of the influential AAPI leaders in the field of school psychology by the Trainers of School Psychologists, a national organization committed to high-quality training in school psychology programs. Over the course of his career, Song has been elected…

Jared Lau (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) and colleagues from New Mexico State, Kansas State, and Portland State universities published Use of the MSJCC: A content analysis of ACA journals in the journal Counselor Education and Supervision, the flagship journal of the Association for Counselor Education…

Jungnam Kim (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published the manuscript “How the culture in school counseling programs shapes college-going outcomes: Do the effects vary by race?” in the Professional School Counseling Journal. She worked alongside colleagues to examine how the culture in school counseling programs or…

Diana Pedraza Harrison (Clinical Mental Health Counseling) was recently recognized by the local news station, Fox 5, for her grassroots non-profit organization, The Promise, which is a charitable organization that serves the homeless community in Las Vegas.  

Jared Lau (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) and colleagues Kok-Mun Ng, Colleen Nguyen, and Nelandra Anselmo from Oregon State University received a research grant from the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) to develop the Counselor Educators’ Use of Self in Antiracist Teaching Inventory…