Associate professor Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood Special Education) was part of the research and writing team for the 2026 position statement from national organizations Division for Early Childhood/National Association for the Education of Young Children--Early Childhood Inclusion. First published in 2009--this statement is used…

The Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) has granted provisional recognition to the M.Ed. in Special Education with an Emphasis in Applied Behavior Analysis. The program met more than 50 rigorous standards across nine areas, including mission, curriculum, outcomes assessment, resources, and faculty. ABAI is the…

Joseph Morgan, interim dean, (Education) will receive the Floyd G. Hudson Award from the Council for Learning Disabilities at their annual conference. The award honors his exceptional leadership and service in the field.

Alain Bengochea and Suheyla Sarisahin (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) are serving as president and secretary, respectively, of the newly founded Nevada State Association for Bilingual Education (NV-SABE). NV-SABE is the Nevada state affiliate of the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE). The statewide…

April Ursula Fox (Education Psychology) published “Zine-Making at The Punk Rock Museum: Creating a Bridge Between Museum Display and Personal Meaning-Making with Adult Visitors” in Visitor Studies. The study examines how adult visitors used zine-making following a visit to The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas to reflect on, reinterpret, and retain…

Zhiling M. Shea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and her co-author at UCLA published an article, "Patterns of kindergarten mathematics instructional content in the United States’ classrooms and associations with children’s academic gains" in Early Childhood Research Quarterly While most prior research has used variable-…

Dan Wright (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published research examining whether asking people for more information following responses to the General Health Questionnaire could affected subsequent responses. It can. Respondents gave fewer psychologically concerning responses when presented with selective and predictable…

Gerilyn Slicker, Joseph Morgan, and Sharolyn Pollard-Durodola (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education Department) were awarded a research practice partnership grant ($400,000) from the Spencer Foundation, titled Meeting Diverse Child and Family Needs through Innovative Early Childhood Educational Services: A Research-Practice…

Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) was recognized as one of the Top Women Leaders of Nevada for 2026 by Women We Admire. 

Over the summer, Janel Doll and Anne Jacklin (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) collaborated with the Touchstones Discussion Project team on two new textbook projects: an updated edition of Mapping the Future: Charting Individual Growth and Collaborative Leadership in Inclusive Seminars, and a new digital 2026 online…

Madeline Clark and Heather Dahl-Jacinto (both Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Service) published their text "A DSM-5-TR Companion for Counselors: A Trauma-Informed and Socially Just Model for Diagnosis and Treatment Planning."

Dan Wright (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), as the senior methodologist, published a paper on world-wide prevalence of birth-related PTSD in mothers from 31 countries in the British Journal of Psychiatry with colleagues from these countries. This is part of ongoing research on multi-national mother and children mental…