Educational Specialties

A new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant is allowing researchers at The University of New Mexico to study native Spanish speaking elementary students struggling with math problem solving in New Mexico and California. Earlier this year, the NSF...

Ruth Luckasson, distinguished professor and the chair of the Department of Special Education in The University of New Mexico's College of Education has been recognized nationally as a champion for people with disabilities. Luckasson was recently given...

“Something needs to be different.” That was the reaction of Laurel Semsch (now Laurel Lane) after 9/11. After the horrific events of that day in 2001, she decided to do something positive and make a difference in the world—by becoming a teacher. So in...

UNM's Prevention Research Center, the Department of Pediatrics, and researchers and educators from the UNM College of Education have been awarded nearly $1.3 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Science Education ...

Jesse Traub suffered a traumatic brain injury resulting from a car accident in his senior year of high school. He want to teach to help others of all abilities. He graduates from UNM's College of Education with a Bachelor of Arts in social studies ...