Iesha Jackson (Teacher Education), Catharine Lory (Special Education), Vanessa Nunez (Sociology), and Camisha Fagan (Sociology) coauthored an article titled, “(Em)bracing ourselves: Women of Color in the academy supporting each other through troubling times,” in Current Issues in Education. The article emphasizes the importance of cultivating…

The Council of Standards in Human Service Education, the national accrediting body for human services degree programs, recently approved the accreditation of UNLV’s bachelor’s degree in the field. According to the council, the program, housed within the College of Eduction, features a well-aligned, practice-focused curriculum,…

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) wrote a research brief for Brookings titled, "Tacos and Tuition: A look at new college benefits for the low-wage workforce." The piece is a summary of a recently published article in Educational Researcher ("The Expansion of Corporate-Sponsored Tuition Benefits to America's…

Madeline Clark (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published Counselors Providing Care to Clients Who Self-Diagnose via the Internet and Social Media: A Grounded Theory in the Journal of Counseling and Development with colleagues from various other institutions. 

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Monique North, (Ph.D. '25) presented a paper co-authored with Xue Xing (Teaching and Learning) at the 2025 NPWR Forum. The event was hosted by the Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation (DETR) and the Governor's Office of Workforce Innovation (…

Benita R. Brooks (Teaching and Learning), Tillie Torres, Celest Diaz, and Blaze Epps (all Mater Academy East Campus) presented at the Literacy Research Association’s 75th Annual Conference on Dec. 3 during the Special Study Group Session: Educators, Administrators, and State Department Colleagues at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. Their…

Bradley Marianno and Sean Mulvenon (all Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published "Piloting School Funding Equity: How the New Nevada Education Funding Pilot Impacted Student Outcomes" in the journal Education Finance and Policy. 

Gabriela Buccini, Manoj Sharma, Timothy J. Grigsby, master's student Ambree Schoetker, master's student Smriti Neupane (all Public Health); Dodds Simangan, Jyoti Desai (both Medicine); Ana Poblacion (Children's HealthWatch), and NIH colleagues Alison Brown and Juanita Chinn published, "Food insecurity questionnaire on knowledge,…

Faculty and students from the Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences department recently published an article in Sensors. James W. Navalta (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Olivia R. Perez (MS Kinesiology), Rodolfo Mejia (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences), Jennifer A. Bunn (Sam Houston State University) published an article titled, "The…

Valarie Burke, Alissa Gardner, and Ashlyn Gray (Graduate College) represented UNLV at the Gardner Institute’s Graduate Student Experience Conference, held Oct. 29-31, 2025, in Chicago. Burke delivered a session titled “Creating Connections: The Role of Graduate Student Organizations in Building Community.” Gardner presented “The Grad…

Reimund Serafica, Catherine Dingley (Nursing), and Joseph Morgan (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article titled, “Leveraging Simulation to Understand Nursing Student Learning in Technologically Complex Environments,” in Clinical Simulation in Nursing. The publication is based on the…

Katherine Feather, Heather Dahl-Jacinto, and Madeline Clark (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published, "Humanizing the treatment of Autism: Experiences of mental health professionals working alongside children with ASD and their families," in the Journal of Humanistic Counseling.