Five College of Sciences faculty exhibited posters at the UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo Jan. 29. 

• Gabriel Judkins (Geosciences) and Rex Suba: "Embedding Accessibility in Course Development"
• Elana Paladino (Sciences): "Mentoring meetings increase student performance on 'high stakes' projects in STEM"
• Viktoria Savatorova (Mathematical Sciences): "Active Learning and Transparency in Teaching Gateway Mathematics Courses"
• Alison Sloat (Sciences): "Pre-tests Improve Students’ Critical Thinking"
• Jenifer Utz (Life Sciences): "A Strategy to Increase Formative Assessment and Student Engagement during Labs"

Sloat's poster won the Distinguished Poster Award.