Katie Wade-Jaimes (Teaching and Learning) was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her project, "Identifying, Enabling, and Supporting Racial Justice in Science Teaching." This project addresses the ongoing marginalization of people of color from science fields by exploring antiracism in science education at the K-12 levels in…

Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) co-authored an article, "Examining the Completeness of Industry and Occupation Data Among Patients Newly Diagnosed with Cancer in North Carolina," in North Carolina Medical Journal.

Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) published an article with collaborators Rochelle Gutiérrez and Marrielle Myers, titled "Political Conocimiento in Teaching Mathematics: mathematics teacher candidates enacting their ethical identities" in the Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education.

Safiyya Bintali (English; Teaching and Learning) was awarded the 60th Nevada Centennial Medallion by the Las Vegas Rotary Club. Bintali is a 2024 graduate with B.S. in Secondary Education & B.A. in English. Since 1964, the Centennial Medallion is awarded once a year to a graduating senior based on a set of criteria including community…

Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) published “'I really got to think about my background, their background, and how do we come together on something?': One emergent mathematics teacher leader's reflexive journey with Social Justice Mathematics" in the School Science and Mathematics journal.

Holmes Scholar Adjoa Mensah (Teaching and Learning) presented “Exploring Technology Integration through Lesson Analysis: A PICRAT Model Pilot Study” at the 2024 CONGRESS of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Montreal, Canada.   

Adjoa Mensah (Teaching and Learning), won the Professor Roosevelt Fitzgerald Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership award. 

Drew Blasco (Social and Behavioral Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services), and Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) were selected to receive a UNLV 2024 Faculty Opportunity Award for their project entitled, "Theory-based correlates of help-seeking behavior…

The Nevada Association of Teacher Educators (NvATE) proud to introduce the new leaders of NvATE: Tracy Spies (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), who has assumed the leadership role of President, and Benita Brooks (Teaching and Learning), who will be serving as Vice President. Their expertise and dedication are undoubtedly…

Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) published "'Educational Facials': A Healing Tool for the Beautiful Struggle" with coauthor Michelle Cody.

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health), Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Sidath Kapukotuwa, Liliana Davalos, Laurencia Bonsu (all Social and Behavioral Health) published an article titled, “Theory-based antecedents…

Holmes Scholars Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Adjoa Mensah (Teaching and Learning) presented their research "An Expectancy Value Theory Approach to Understanding Science Teacher’s Persistence" at the AACTE Annual 2024 conference, supported by Tina Vo and her NSF-funded grant.…