Honors
Kimberly D’Adamo, TLTE lecturer and graduate student in the School of Art, Art History & Design - “The Beautiful Impossibility of Teaching Them All” project featured in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. Story
Jodi (Benton) Kupper (TLTE '98), was inaugurated as the 13th president of Chadron State College on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. Learn more.
Susan Loveall, SECD associate professor, and two members of her Learning Lab for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Emma Lucas and Grace Faltin, presented their research at the 58th Annual Gatlinburg Conference in Minneapolis. Lucas was awarded the first ever Michael G Aman IDD Clinical Trials Award. See post.
Michael Merten, CEHS interim dean, was selected for the Academic Leadership Program, and Miechelle McKelvey, chair of the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders, was selected for the Department Executive Officers Program. Both are Big Ten Academic Alliance leadership programs. Learn more.
Hannah Miller, an elementary education and special education (K-6) major from Shickley, Nebraska, was crowned homecoming royalty. See post.
Awards
Mun Yuk Chin, EDPS assistant professor, was awarded the Early Career Professional Teaching Award from the Society of Counseling Psychology, which is Division 17 of the American Psychological Association. The award recognizes the contributions of an early career professional in the role of teacher in an undergraduate or graduate setting. Chin was honored for her efforts to train culturally responsive and congruent psychologists and counselors.
Taeyeon Kim, EDAD associate professor, was awarded a book fellowship from the Office of Research and Innovation. The book she is working on builds on a 2023 article, “The Coloniality of Achievement Gap Discourses and Their Responses.”
Elizabeth Lewis, TLTE professor, one of the 2026 recipients of the James A. Lake Academic Freedom Award given by the Faculty Senate based on nominations made by the James A. Lake Academic Freedom Award Committee.
Zach Schafer (TLTE PhD ‘25) was one of two recipients of the John Laska Dissertation Award from the American Association for Teaching & Curriculum for his dissertation, “Wondrous Uncertainty: Transforming Student Educational Experiences Using Restorative Practices.”
Publications
The book “Dissertation as Contemporary Art: How Academic Research Becomes Artistic Practice” by TLTE lecturer Kimberly D’Adamo and professor Guy Trainin was published by Routledge.
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