UNLV faculty and graduate students Metehan Zorluoglu (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Dilara Kara-Zorluoglu (Curriculum and Instruction; Education), and Hasan Deniz (Teaching and Learning) helped elementary school students achieve recognition as Nevada State Winners in the Presidential AI Challenge, Elementary Category Track II (Technical/…

Researchers from the Auditory Cognitive Development Lab and the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Lab co-authored a large-scale study attempting to replicate findings from 164 papers across the social and behavioral sciences. The study showed that only about 50% of findings were replicable, similar to another landmark study about the…

UNLV Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate College, Alyssa Crittenden, has been appointed to serve as Chair-Elect of the Graduate Education affinity group within the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities. In this role, Crittenden will help guide national efforts to strengthen graduate education across…

Linc Johnson (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented his research study, "Globalization as a Social Science Problem: Applying the Johnson Ranking of Global Engagement (JRGE) at UNLV," at the National Social Science Association Conference in Las Vegas. This paper re-conceptualizes global engagement as an analytically…

Ph.D. student Hiraku Nagahori (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences), under the mentorship of Kai Yu Ho, Ph.D., (Physical Therapy) and in collaboration with James Kenyon (Teaching and Learning), is advancing innovative rehabilitation strategies for individuals with chronic low back pain. In their recent study, the team investigated how a simple, low…

Sarah Surrain (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with colleagues, published the article, "A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Evaluating Perceptions of Bilingualism Among Latino Parents of Autistic Children" in First Language. 

 Alain Bengochea, Gloria Carcoba Falomir, Suheyla Sarisahin, Tracey West, and Xin Zhang (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published "Toward a translanguaging-as-resource orientation: elementary and secondary teachers’ shifting beliefs and practices in English-medium settings" in the International Journal of Bilingual…

Doctoral student Jinkun Shen (Teacher Education) has published an article titled, “Teacher Induction and Collaboration: Investigating the Role of School Instructional Leadership, Mentoring, and Collaborative School Culture,” in the Journal of Educational Change. The article was coauthored with Shaoan Zhang, Ph.D., from the Department of Teaching…

Sarah Surrain (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with colleagues, published the article, "From Barriers to Bridges: Promoting Multilingual Language Development Through Parent‐Teacher Collaborations in Early Childhood" in The Reading Teacher. 

Doris Watson (Educational Psychology, Leadership and Higher Education), with former and current doctoral students, Holly Schneider, Jenna Heath, and Amy Carvalho, published the article titled, "Doctoral Students' Perceptions of Mattering," in Education Sciences. The study examined doctoral students’ perceptions of mattering to their advisors…

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 Education features a well-aligned, practice-focused curriculum, highly…