Accomplishments: College of Education

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. 
Julie Pham (Education) coauthored an article, "Leaving to Fit In? The Ethnoracial Composition of Principals, Peer Teachers, and Teacher Turnover in New York City," where she and fellow researchers (Luis Rodriguez and Briana Gonçalvez) found that NYC public school teachers were more likely to stay in schools with a principal and peers that shared…
Hasan Deniz (Teaching and Learning) received the 2024-2025 Nevada STEM Advocate of the Year Award. The award recipient is selected by the Governor’s Office of Science, Innovation and Technology (OSIT) and the Regional STEM Networks to increase awareness of high-quality STEM education in Nevada. Annually, each Regional STEM Network in…
Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) co-authored a textbook, Instructional Strategies for Career and Technical Educators, published  by the Association for Career and Technical Education.
Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) co-authored an article "Responding to Change," in the Techniques, the flagship journal for Career and Technical Education.
Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) co-authored a textbook, Curriculum Development & Design in Career & Technical Education, which was published by the Association for Career and Technical Education.
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.
Madeline Clark (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) published "A Content Analysis of Neurodiversity Constructs in Counseling Journals" in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling with colleagues from the University of Toledo and Oakland University. 
Asma Awan, Timothy Grigsby, Christopher Johansen (all Social and Behavioral Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Explaining the Correlates of the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change in Visual (Structural) Colorectal Cancer…
Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) recently co-authored a textbook, Instructional Strategies for Career and Technical Educators. Published by the Association for Career and Technical Education.