Suheyla Sarisahin, Gloria Carcoba Falomir, Alain Bengochea (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), and Tracy Spies (Teacher Education at Wyoming University) presented a paper titled, "Shifting teachers' beliefs and practices to support multilingual learners with disabilities," at the American Educational Research…

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…

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.  

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…

April Ursula Fox (Education) presented her paper, “Meaningful Learning with Zines at the Punk Rock Museum: A Mixed-Methods Study,” at the 2026 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting. The paper was featured in the session “Power and Learning in Museums: Reimagining Museums as Sites of Untold Histories,” part of the SIG-…

Adjoa Mensah (Online Education), Tina Vo (Teaching and Learning), and David Ko (Teaching and Learning) presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2026 Annual Meeting. Adjoa presented research examining K–8 science teachers’ ICT planning and implementation practices using the PIC-RAT framework to understand technology…

On April 8, 2026, Bridget K. Daleiden (Educational Psychology) presented “'Easily Distracted': A Thematic Analysis of College Students’ Attentional Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulated Learning” in a paper session on motivation, belonging, and help-seeking at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. The…

Bridget K. Daleiden (Ph.D. Candidate; Educational Psychology) presented her research on music and self-regulated studying in an invited roundtable session honoring the legacy of Dr. Barry J. Zimmerman at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA. Daleiden’s research builds on Zimmerman’s…

Danica G. Hays (Education) co-authored the article, "Broaching the social determinants of mental health in counseling practice," recently published in The Professional Counselor journal. The article identifies six broaching behaviors for counselors to address clinical issues related to social determinants of mental health.

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/…

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…