Dina Birman, Educational and Psychological Studies, was appointed to serve on the American Psychological Association's (APA) Presidential Taskforce on Immigration and Health. She is one of only 12 experts invited to serve on the taskforce, commissioned by President Cynthia de las Fuentes, and co-chaired by Dr. Alfonso Mercado, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and Dr. Amanda Venta, University of Houston.

Wendy Cavendish, Teaching and Learning, and co-authors David Connor, Louis Olander, and Armineh Hallaran's article titled, “Preparing for their future: Perspectives of high school students with learning disabilities about transition planning,” published in 2020 in the journal Exceptionality was nominated by the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Career Development and Transition (DCDT) as a "must read" article in the Transition field. The article was one of three articles with the highest votes in the category of research article within a peer-reviewed journal. 

Scott Grapin, Teaching and Learning, was awarded an NSF Continuing Grant for his project titled, "Developing a Multi-Disciplinary STEM Education Model for Multilingual Learners That Meets Societal Challenges."  His project focuses on developing instructional materials and teacher professional development that engage middle-school multilingual learners in using data science and computer science to make sense of STEM-related justice issues. 

Kysha Harriell, Kinesiology and Sport Sciences, and associate dean of Race, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (REDI) for the SEHD, was appointed vice president of the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE). Over the previous year, she made a mark as the first Black member of the Board of Commissioners. This past spring, she was elected as vice president, and by the close of September, she began her three-year term within the executive committee. In this new role, she will help lead strategic initiatives to bolster the CAATE's vision to advance clinical practice and improve health care outcomes by promoting excellence in athletic training education.   

Teaching and Learning Professor Jason Mizell was recognized by the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of South Florida Inc., Miami-Dade Teacher of the Year Coalition and the Armando Alejandre Jr. Memorial Foundation. He received the Changemaking Education Award in recognition for designing a children's literature course that allowed his students to work with the staff at the Linda Ray Intervention Center. His students worked with Elena Fernandez, a Ph.D. candidate in TAL, to put together a multicultural library. The award was created to recognize and celebrate outstanding educators who integrate changing education into the curriculum to strengthen academics, increase student engagement, and foster civic responsibility.

Joseph Signorile, Kinesiology and Sport Sciences, was awarded an Aging Team Science Funding Program grant. In collaboration with Jianhua Wang and Hong Jiang from ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute; Bonnie Levin, Department of Neurology, their proposal, “The impact of cued high-speed interval yoga (YogaCue) on retinal microvasculature, mitochondrial function, and cognition in persons with Parkinson’s disease”, will examine the capacity of this newly designed YogaCue program, which high-speed intervals to address exercise intensity and visual and auditory cueing with pattern recognition and retention to incorporate the cognitive domains most affected by PD, to improve brain health and cognition. 

Todd Warner, Educational and Psychological Studies, and Mary Avalos, Teaching and Learning, were commissioned by the Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust (MDEAT) to examine youth arrest patterns and practices in Miami-Dade County. The report, “Trends in Youth Arrests in Miami-Dade County: 2010-2022,” and its findings were presented to elected officials, community leaders, and scholars at, “The School-to Prison Pipeline Symposium: An Examination of Youth Arrest Patterns and Practices in Miami-Dade County.”

Nastasia Schreiner, PhD candidate in the Department of Teaching and Learning, was elected to the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities (IARLD). IARLD is an elected group of premier scientists, educators and clinicians in the field of learning disabilities throughout the world. The Academy was formed in 1976 by Dr. William Cruickshank (United States of America) and Dr. Jacob Valk (The Netherlands). The IARLD Student Members Committee “was extremely impressed with [Nastasia’s] background and accomplishments….[including her] outstanding CV [and] service as an advocate, teacher and volunteer for students with an array of learning differences.”

Teaching and Learning PhD candidate, Kayla Larkin, has been invited to serve on the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Division G Graduate Student Executive Committee. Division G (Social Context of Education) focuses on examining, interrogating, and resisting dominant educational processes of teaching and learning, languages and literacies, policy, politics, and praxis, and community education. Kayla will serve a 2-year elected term planning and executing diverse programming for Division G graduate/undergraduate students, supporting Division G programming at the AERA Annual Meeting, and serving as campus liaison at University of Miami.