Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders announces a partnership with the University of Nevada School of Medicine. The purpose of the partnership is to bring more services to autistic children at a two-story center across from UNLV's main campus. The partnership received kudos from some of the local media.

Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) will be honored as a Sport Marketing Association Research Fellow at the group's annual conference in Philadelphia in October. The Sport Marketing Association Research Fellow designation recognizes individual scholars who have shown excellence in the area of sport marketing research,…

Clifford McClain (Teaching & Learning) recently was honored by the Nevada Association of Career and Technical Education (NACTE) as Postsecondary Teacher of the Year at its annual conference at Lake Tahoe. This award was presented in recognition of his outstanding service, devotion, and leadership in career and technical education. While at the…

Nathan Slife (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) has been selected as the coordinator of the college's First Year Seminar (FYS) and Second Year Seminar (SYS). Along with Vicki Rosser (Educational Psychology and Higher Education), he has been instrumental in creating courses for both the FYS and SYS. In his new position, he will be…

Nancy Lough and Lisa Rubin (both Educational Psychology & Higher Education) made a research presentation, "Equity, Equality and Need: Reflections on 40 Years of Title IX," at the annual meeting of the College Sports Research Institute in Columbia, S.C.

Tracy Johnson (Liberal Arts), Janet Hollinger (Academic Affairs), Eric Lee (Academic Affairs), and Cheyenne Rogers (Education) received four of the nine Region 9 Academic Advising Awards given at the annual NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) Region 9 conference held at the University of California, Berkeley. Johnson received the…

Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) and Anjala Krishen (Marketing & International Business) presented "USA Pro Cycling Challenge: Cycling Fans Lifestyles and Event Sponsorship" along with co-author Angeline Close of the University of Texas at a meeting of the Sport Marketing Association in October. That month Lough…

Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) became president of the Sport Marketing Association on Oct. 25. The association is dedicated to developing mutually beneficial relationships between professionals, academicians, and students around the world through the creation, distribution, and implementation of sport marketing…

Gwen Marchand (Educational Psychology and Higher Education), Nick Nardi (Educational Psychology and Higher Education), and Anne Mendenhall (Online Education) presented "Motivation and Engagement in Online Education: Examining Theory, Measurement, and Application" at the biennial conference of the Southwest Consortium for Innovative Psychology in…

Mario Martinez and Brandy Smith (both Educational Psychology & Higher Education) contributed a chapter, "Systems, Ecosystems, and Change in State-Level Public Higher Education," to Higher Education Systems 3.0: Harnessing Systemness, Delivering Performance. The book is part of series for which the State University of New York has commissioned…

P.G. Schrader (Teaching & Learning) and MaryKay Orgill (Chemistry) were awarded $749,700 from the National Science Foundation for their grant proposal titled Cyber-Learning Activities to Scaffold STEM Practices (CLASSP). The grant will look at how innovative, cyber-enabled instructional methods can transform STEM education and increase…

Cynthia Kimball, Clifford McClain, and Howard Gordon (all Teaching & Learning) made a presentation, "A Methodological Approach to Autoethnography Research: Implications for Public Health," at the Nevada Public Health Association annual conference, Redefining Health: Strategies for Improving the Physical, Mental and Social Well-Being of All…