Tina Vo (Teaching and Learning) and Holmes Scholar and doctoral candidate Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) attended the 2025 Association for Science Teacher Education Conference (ASTE). They presented their study titled “Investigating the Connection between Science Curriculum and…

Holmes scholar and doctoral candidate Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Tina Vo (Teaching and Learning) recently presented their research at the 2025 Association for Science Teacher Education Conference ASTE. Their paper, "Scripted Curriculum, Unscripted Support: Understanding…

Juanita K. Hinojosa (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was selected as the recipient of NASPA's Latinx/a/o Knowledge Community 2025 Outstanding Doctoral Student Award. 

Doctoral candidate Monica Hernandez-Johnson and Lisa Bendixen (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) have been published in the Journal of Mixed Methods Research.  Hernández-Johnson, M. J., & Bendixen, L. D. (2024). Critical Mixed Methods: The Imperative for Critical Inquiry and Reflexivity in Research. Journal of…

Vuk Celic and Dan Wright (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published research in Applied Cognitive Psychology shows that those in both evaluative and managerial low power conditions learned more from those in the corresponding high power conditions, than the opposite. The research was done in an…

Ung-Sang Lee (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has published a manuscript titled, "Activating/Mobilizing Intersectional Assets: Racial Justice-Focused School Leadership Systems That Center Students of Color and Privilege Their Interests," in Education Sciences.

Vuk Celic and Dan Wright (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published research on how the power relationships among people influence how much they learn from each other in Applied Cognitive Psychology.

LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) authored Tonio and the Chicharra, a heartfelt children’s book available for purchase on Amazon. Tonio and the Chicharra tells the story of a young boy and his Nana, capturing the warmth of intergenerational relationships and the richness of cultural…

Brittani Sterling (Libraries), social sciences and interdisciplinary studies librarian and assistant professor, was featured in the Dec. 12 edition of the Las Vegas Weekly, in the article, "Multicultural campus: UNLV has potential to become a diversity destination," alongside Steven Nelson (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher…

Holmes Scholar Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was featured in the spotlight reflection piece for her participation in the AACTE Holmes Dissertation Retreat 2024. In the article, Marquez-Mendez shares the significant impact of the retreat on her research journey, emphasizing the vital role…

Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published an original research article, "Resiliency Fatigue for Rural Residents following Repeated Natural Hazard Exposure," in Ecology and Society. The piece examines how residents of Eastern North…

Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was interviewed by Las Vegas 8 News Now's Ozzy Mora about the rise of homeschooling as an alternative educational model for K-12 learning and Nevada's policies and regulations for parents who are interested in pursuing homeschooling for their children.