Natalie Hudson, a C&I doctoral student was recently awarded one a GREAT Summer Scholarship. This award provides full tuition and fees as well as a $6,000 stipend. Congratulations Natalie!

Natalie is studying TESL/Applied Linguistics. Her committee chair is Steve McCafferty.

C&I faculty (Marilyn McKinney, Liz Spalding) and the Southern Nevada Writing Project (SNWP) (Rosemary Holmes-Gull) are partnering with the Nevada Partners in Inclusive Education, UNLV's English Department, and the Regional Professional Development Center to offer an innovative program for CCSD high school teachers and students. Just Voices brings world-class writers from around the world to local schools to share their stories and interact with students, thus aiming to raise curiosity and interest in literature and increase motivation and skills in writing.

This curriculum helps students find their own voices as writers by providing opportunities for them to see that effective writing skills can be a powerful tool toward making a positive impact on the world. The authors who will be visiting schools in April include Gerda Weissmann Klein, Holocaust survivor and author of All But My Life (April 9-11), Ana Castillo, one of the leading voices to emerge from the Chicana experience and author of The Guardians (April 14-18), and Dan Chaon, author of the short story collection, Fitting Ends, that focuses on issues of justice and tolerance within the structure of the family (April 21-25).

Laura Bower accepted a position on the faculty at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT. She will teach courses in the Elementary Education Department, as she continues her research related to teacher identity and social scripts for mothers and teachers. Laura successfully defended her dissertation entitled Finding the Other in Mother: Queering Social Scripts for Mothers and Teachers on April 1. Her committee co-chairs are Dr. Cari Klecka and Dr. Helen Harper.

Kent Crippen and collaborators in the College of Sciences and Clark County School District (CCSD) have been awarded a major grant from the Nevada State Department of Education to support Project MIST. This grant will support a professional development initiative that includes a summer institute and graduate coursework in mathematics and science. Other principal investigators on the project include Mary Kay Orgill from the Department of Chemistry as well as David Miller and Lynn Trell from the Curriculum and Professional Development Division of CCSD. The $860,000 grant is only the latest in a series of grant supported research and development collaborations that Dr. Crippen has engaged in during his time at UNLV.

See the UNLV press release for more information on the project.

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