Shengjie Zhai (PI), Emma E Regentova (co-PI), Ming Zhu (co-PI) (all Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Vanessa Vongkulluksn (co-PI) (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) from the have received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NF) award of $899,898 for developing "Pocket TA: A Multimodal AI Platform for…

April Ursula Fox (Education) proposed and moderated the student-centered panel What is the Message? Punk Expressions in School and Community at PunkCon 2026. The roundtable brought together UNLV students to explore what a punk way of thinking can mean within school and community spaces, with particular attention to questioning authority…

April Ursula Fox (Education) proposed and moderated the interdisciplinary faculty panel EDUPUNK: Reimagining Knowledge Production Through Punk-Inspired Praxis at PunkCon 2026. The panel brought together five UNLV scholars to explore how punk’s traditions of creativity, collaboration, experimentation and DIY practice can inform research, teaching,…

April Ursula Fox (Educational Psychology) presented "Zines in the Classroom: A Practical Guide to Zines as Summative and Formative Assessment" at PunkCon 2026: “Teaching for the Masses: Punk Pedagogies for Scholastic Saboteurs,” held May 7–8 at UNLV. Fox’s presentation explored how zines—independently produced, creative publications with deep…

Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) received a $300,000 award from the Stranahan Foundation.  Her project will develop and test an innovative leadership model to help elementary school principals strengthen the transition from preschool to kindergarten — supporting developmentally appropriate…

Tamekia Bell (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) presented preliminary findings from her research study titled "African American Women with Menopause: An Exploratory Study" at the Association for Adult Development and Aging (AADA) in Knoxville, Tennessee. 

Elizabeth Barrie (Teaching and Learning Innovation; Academic Affairs) recently helped author UPCEA's (online and professional education association) new Hallmarks of Excellence in Digital Learning Enterprises. Released by UPCEA, the framework provides practical guidance for colleges and universities seeking to strengthen digital learning…

Benita R. Brooks, Borna Nemet, Sinead Pelleschi, Cherish Olson, Chyllis E. Scott, and Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner (all Teaching & Learning) published an article titled, "Exploring teacher candidates' well-being literacy through the PERMA lens: A sequential mixed-methods study," in Action in Teacher Education. In this sequential explanatory…

Madeline Clark (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published "Problems of Professional Competence, Remediation Interventions, and Outcomes in Counselor Education: A Case-Level Study" with colleagues from Kent State University in Counselor Education and Supervision.   

Bradley Marianno and Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education and the Center for Research, Evaluation, and Assessment) received a $1 million dollar federal grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (Department of Education) to continue their study of Nevada's Pupil-Centered Funding Plan, the state's formula for…

Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) gave the opening keynote for the University of Arizona's Humanizing and Culturally Affirming Teacher Preparation Program (HCAT) Summer Institute (June 23, 2026).

Bridget K. Daleiden, Ph.D., (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), recently published an article, “Many students listen to music to focus and stay motivated while they study – but it doesn't always help,” in The Conversation.