Sarah M. Wolff (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), Jonathan C. Hilpert, (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Christy Strong (Life Sciences) published a brief research report titled, "Using the fused graphical lasso to explore the motivational self-system after a multimedia self-regulated learning…

Matthew L. Bernacki, Dan Gianoutsos (Student and Academic Success), and MeganClaire Cogliano (Education) published their manuscript, "Examining Digital Curricular Enhancements to First-Year Seminars and Effects on College Success," in Innovative Higher Education. This five-year longitudinal study examined how digital curricular enhancements, which…

Danielle Mireles, Norma A. Marrun, and Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) co-authored a chapter titled, "Between hypervisibility and invisibility: Unpacking what it means to be an HSI on Indigenous lands through critical unearthing of local histories and epistemologies of Latinx communities," published in Contemporary issues in…

Norma A. Marrun, Danielle Mireles, Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) and Jori S. Beck from Old Dominion University published an article titled, "The (non) numeric truths behind college and career aspirations: a QuantCrit analysis of the precarious pathways for secondary students of color" in the journal of Race Ethnicity and Education.

LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has been elected as the Chair-Elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Research on Women in Education (RWE) Special Interest Group (SIG) for the upcoming year. This appointment follows her dedicated service as a committee co-chair…

A multidisciplinary team from UNLV's Computer Science and Teaching & Learning departments was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. The team included: Edward Jorgensen (Computer Science), Marla Goins (Teaching &…

Amanda Melilli (Libraries) and co-authors Alicia G. Vaandering (University of Rhode Island) and James W. Rosenzweig (Eastern Washington University) published a book chapter titled, "Here, Queer, but Catalog Records Aren't Used to it: The Discoverability of LGBTQIA+ Representation in Library Collections" in Censorship is a Drag: LGBTQ Materials and…

April Ursula Fox (Educational Psychology), author and editor, has published the STTAR - Storytelling with Tarot Anthology. Also available for digital download through Avantpop Publishing. This project was supported in part by the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV. STTAR is a collection of short stories by Las Vegas writers,…

Holmes scholar and doctoral candidate Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Education) and Holmes scholar Anel Rojas (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) recently presented their research at the 2025 American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Their poster, "Voices of Resilience: Exploring the Mentorship Needs of…

Amanda Melilli (Libraries), along with colleagues Alicia G. Vaandering (University of Rhode Island) and James W. Rosenzweig (Eastern Washington University) presented "Reading the Rainbow: Exploring Themes and Identities in LGBTQIA+ Picture Books" at the 2025 Children's Literature Assembly Online Research Conference. 

Madeline Clark (Counselor Education) was elected president for the Association of Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) for 2026-2027 fiscal year making her the 80th ACES president. Clark will assume the role of ACES president-elect July 1, 2025.

Kenyon Lee Whitman (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) recently co-authored a report titled, "Understanding Belongingness, Support, and Perseverance: An Exploratory Study of the Educational Experiences of Foster Youth in California," with colleagues from UCLA's Center for the Transformation of Schools.