April Ursula Fox (Education), in collaboration with Nicole J. Thomas (Guinn Center; Undergraduate Research), presented a poster titled, “Zines as Summative Assessment for Learning: Reimagining Rigor Through Creativity and Learning as Becoming,” at the 2026 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. The poster…

UNLV graduate student and faculty microbiologists traveled to Tuba City, in the Navajo Nation for the regional American Society for Microbiology conference. Microbiologists from across Arizona and Southern Nevada attended to share their research. Three UNLV graduate students were awarded prizes for their research talks. They were Austin Dmitrieff-…

Maryam Ahranjani (Law) presented her research on school policing in Professor Vanessa Miller's class Police, Crime and Education at Florida International University College of Law.

Rebecca Nathanson (Law; Education) presented a paper titled, "Competency Remediation Program: Overview and update on analyses of efficacy" at the 2026 American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference in Reno.  

Rui Fang (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) delivered a presentation at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards (CIRMS) in Rockville, Maryland, titled, “A New Online Program for Neutron Activation Analysis.” Rui is a Ph.D. student in the interdisciplinary health sciences program, with a…

Doctoral student Alexis Rice (Psychological and Brain Sciences) has been awarded multiple competitive honors from the UNLV Graduate College. She is the recipient of the 2026 Patricia Sastaunik Scholarship and the Janine Lee Memorial Scholarship, recognizing her academic excellence and contributions to research. Rice was also awarded the 2026…

On April 11, 2026, Dilara Kara-Zorluoglu and Debika Jana (both Teaching and Learning) presented “Scripted to Teach: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Scripted Curricula in Science Education” in a paper session on Centering Other Epistemologies in Critical Curriculum Studies at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2026 Annual Meeting…

Doctoral students Alexis Rice and Shanika Wickramarachchi (both Psychological and Brain Sciences) presented a roundtable at the 2026 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Convention in Los Angeles, CA. Their presentation, titled “Feeling Out of Place: A Mixed Methods Investigation of the Imposter Phenomenon Among BIPOC and LGBTQ…

Several departments and offices across campus came together to support the fifth annual Nevada Science Olympiad as hundreds of middle and high school STEM students throughout the Silver State came to UNLV to showcase their projects. Categories for the Nevada Science Olympiad included Life, Personal & Social Science; Earth & Space Science…