Accomplishments: College of Education
Xue (Cher) Xing (Teaching and Learning) won the Nevada ACTE Postsecondary Professional of the Year Award. Award winners may advance to the Region V (western states) competition, and if they win there, may advance to the national Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) competition in 2024.The ACTE Excellence Awards recognize…
Ph.D. candidate Kristine Jan C. Espinoza (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) is one of four authors who contributed to a commentary forum titled, "We Won’t Go Back: Asian Americans and Racial Justice After Affirmative Action," which was published in Amerasia Journal, an interdisciplinary journal in Asian American…
Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) started a podcast called Critical Math Drop with her colleague Michelle Cody where they discuss social justice mathematics. Each episode shares social justice mathematics resources for educators, available on the podcast website. The Critical Math Drop podcast is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify…
Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented at the National Association for the Education of Young Children's Annual Conference alongside her colleagues from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Kimberly Hile and Loretta Hayslip. Their session, "Supporting Young Children with Disabilities in…
Siddharth Raich, Asma Awan, Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), and a colleague from Howard University presented a roundtable “Portion size control: A comprehensive review of dietary interventions” during the American Public Health Association 2023 Annual Meeting on Nov. 13 in Atlanta, Georgia,…
Siddharth Raich, Priyambda Kumra, Asma Awan, Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), and Buddhadeb Dawn, Kavita Batra, Aditi Singh (all Medicine), presented their poster, "Yoga as a complementary therapy to manage physiological and psychological outcomes of digestive disorders: The current state of…
Sidath Kapukotuwa (Social and Behavioral Health), Ravi Batra (Environmental and Occupational Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine; Office of Research), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) presented their poster, "Yoga for osteoarthritis: Current state of interventions," during the American Public…
Georgia College & State University has selected LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) as a visiting scholar for spring 2024. As a visiting scholar she will share a special lecture series and guest appearance on campus in the spring of 2024. She is elated to represent the great work happening at…
Nancy Lough (Education and UNLV Sports Innovation); along with Nicole M. LaVoi from the University of Minnesota; Alysse Soll, CEO of Underdog Advisory and Board Chair of Women in Sports Tech; and Marilou McFarlane, founder & CEO of Women in Sports Tech; hosted a panel on Women in Sport Innovation at the 5th Annual…
Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) published an article, "Maintaining Tensions: Braiding as an analogy for mathematics teacher educators’ political work," with her colleagues Marrielle Myers (Kennesaw State University) and Rochelle Gutiérrez (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).
Myers, M., Kokka, K., & Gutiérrez, R. (2023).…
Grant specialist April Ursula Fox (Office of Research and Sponsored Projects; Education) presented the Grant Proposition Canvas - A Grantmaking Tool at the SRAI conference in Seattle. The Grant Proposition Canvas tool is available for public access and download within the UNLV ORSP COE website. For more information and discussions…
Sharolyn D. Pollard-Durodola (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented "A Strong Start: Early Childhood Multilingualism and Linguistic Social Justice" at the annual Fulbright Conference in Denver, Colorado.