Linc Johnson (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented his research study, "Globalization as a Social Science Problem: Applying the Johnson Ranking of Global Engagement (JRGE) at UNLV," at the National Social Science Association Conference in Las Vegas. This paper re-conceptualizes global engagement as an analytically…

Sarah Surrain (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with colleagues, published the article, "A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Evaluating Perceptions of Bilingualism Among Latino Parents of Autistic Children" in First Language. 

 Alain Bengochea, Gloria Carcoba Falomir, Suheyla Sarisahin, Tracey West, and Xin Zhang (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published "Toward a translanguaging-as-resource orientation: elementary and secondary teachers’ shifting beliefs and practices in English-medium settings" in the International Journal of Bilingual…

Monica Millard, Du Feng, Rebecca Benfield, Clariana Ramos de Oliveira (all Nursing), and Joseph Morgan (Department of Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article, "A comparative analysis of the impact of virtual patients versus high-fidelity manikin-based blended simulation on nursing students’ self-evaluation of…

Sarah Surrain (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with colleagues, published the article, "From Barriers to Bridges: Promoting Multilingual Language Development Through Parent‐Teacher Collaborations in Early Childhood" in The Reading Teacher. 

Iesha Jackson (Teacher Education), Catharine Lory (Special Education), Vanessa Nunez (Sociology), and Camisha Fagan (Sociology) coauthored an article titled, “(Em)bracing ourselves: Women of Color in the academy supporting each other through troubling times,” in Current Issues in Education. The article emphasizes the importance of cultivating…

Gerilyn Slicker, Alain Bengochea, and Melissa Stoffers (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with graduate and undergraduate students Leticia Delgado, Amanda Zapata, Priscila Hernandez Anaya and Emmanuel Ayitah, published an article, "Access to early care and education for Nevada’s infants and toddlers: A mixed methods…

Linc Johnson (Early Childhood, Multilingual and Special Education) presented his research "Transformative Leadership and the Globalization Scorecard: Standardizing the Johnson Ranking of Global Engagement" at the 2025 Higher Education Teaching and Learning (HETL) conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He was recognized at the conference for…

Associate professor Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) was named to the board of directors for Family Voices. This national organization "is a family-led organization that transforms systems of care to work better for all children and youth, especially those with special health care needs or disabilities"…

Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) recently presented sessions at the National Association for the Education of Young Children Annual Conference in Florida. Her session, "'I like you just the way you are.': What we can learn from Mister Rogers about creating a sense of belonging for children with disabilities…

Reimund Serafica, Catherine Dingley (Nursing), and Joseph Morgan (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article titled, “Leveraging Simulation to Understand Nursing Student Learning in Technologically Complex Environments,” in Clinical Simulation in Nursing. The publication is based on the…

Zhiling M. Shea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) along with colleagues published an article "Is Use of Literacy-Focused Curricula Associated with Children’s Literacy Gains and Are Associations Moderated by Risk Status, Receipt of Intervention, or Preschool Setting?" in Education Sciences.  Integrating literacy-…