Holmes Scholar Mayra Marquez-Mendez, Ph.D., (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Tina Vo, Ph.D., (Teaching and Learning) presented their work titled, “Understanding Science Teachers’ Support Needs: Assessing the Reliability of a Support-Seeking Instrument,” at the 2025 Annual American Educational Research…

Katrina Liu (Teaching & Learning) and Richard Miller (Music), together with UNLV alumna Lei Ping (Ph.D., 2025) and Christopher R. Crowley from Wayne State University recently published "Testing the Limits of the Practical: Using van Manen’s Framework to Support Prospective Teachers’ Critical Reflection for Transformative Learning" in the…

Danielle Mireles, Norma A. Marrun, and Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) co-authored a chapter titled, "Between hypervisibility and invisibility: Unpacking what it means to be an HSI on Indigenous lands through critical unearthing of local histories and epistemologies of Latinx communities," published in Contemporary issues in…

Norma A. Marrun, Danielle Mireles, Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) and Jori S. Beck from Old Dominion University published an article titled, "The (non) numeric truths behind college and career aspirations: a QuantCrit analysis of the precarious pathways for secondary students of color" in the journal of Race Ethnicity and Education.

A multidisciplinary team from UNLV's Computer Science and Teaching & Learning departments was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. The team included: Edward Jorgensen (Computer Science), Marla Goins (Teaching &…

Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) was interviewed on the TODOS: Mathematics For All podcast.

Katrina Liu (Teaching and Learning) and Richard Miller (School of Music), together with their colleague Michael K. Thomas (Educational Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago), published a new book, Preparing White Teachers for Anti-Racist Education: Critical Reflection and Generativity for Transformative Praxis. This research-based guide from…

Tina Vo (Teaching and Learning) and Holmes Scholar and doctoral candidate Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) attended the 2025 Association for Science Teacher Education Conference (ASTE). They presented their study titled “Investigating the Connection between Science Curriculum and…

Holmes scholar and doctoral candidate Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Tina Vo (Teaching and Learning) recently presented their research at the 2025 Association for Science Teacher Education Conference ASTE. Their paper, "Scripted Curriculum, Unscripted Support: Understanding…

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.