Steven T. Bickmore (Teaching & Learning) and co-editors were selected as recipients of the 2019 Divergent Award for Excellence in 21st Century Literacies Award for their publication, Towards a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature.  This award honors those who diverge from…

Daejha Hare (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) was accepted to the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (also known as NASPA) Graduate Associate Program for the 2018-19 academic year. This nationally competitive program is aimed to increase leadership opportunities for graduate students at their home institutions as well…

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) was awarded a research grant of $49,995 from the Spencer Foundation for the project "Undocumented Student Achievement in Public Education." The grant will support research projects on the achievement and contribution of undocumented students in public high schools and…

Marcela Rodriguez-Campo (Teaching and Learning) was published in Latinx Spaces as part of a series on the separation of families. Her piece “We Were the Ones Left Behind: A Testimonio of Family Separation” documents the trauma of being separated from family, and the effects of immigration on children as a critique of recent policies.…

Hasan Deniz (Teaching & Learning) is the co-editor of  Evolution Education Around the Globe, which was published by Springer. He also is the  two co-author of the introductory and concluding chapters of the book.

Sophie Ladd (Teaching and Learning) and Amanda Melilli (Libraries) recently had an article, "Sacrifices and Scars, Trials and Triumphs, Resilience and Resolve: Reflections of Refugee and Immigrant Experiences" published in the spring 2018 edition of the Journal of Children's Literature. 

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) had an article published in Research in Higher Education. The article, "Fractions in College: How Basic Math Remediation Impacts Community College Students," examines a unique math placement policy where students were placed into remedial math courses based on specific math skill gaps,…

Danica G. Hays (Education) and co-authors were awarded the Patricia B. Elmore Award for Outstanding Research by the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling for their publication, "Initial Development of the Teen Screen for Dating Violence: Exploratory Factor Analysis, Rasch Model, and Psychometric Data"…

Gwen Marchand (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) recently co-authored "Complex Systems Research in Educational Psychology: Aligning Theory and Method" published in the Educational Psychologist journal. This piece provides an overview of complex systems research for educational psychologists by …

Iesha Jackson (Teaching and Learning) co-authored an empirical study that explores how secondary educators of color attempt to support their Black and Latino male students’ navigation of particular inequities related to college knowledge and access. The research, published in the Journal of Teacher Education, highlights culturally relevant…

Erica Reid (Teaching & Learning) was named the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education's  Holmes Scholar of the Month for May 2018. The Holmes Program seeks to enrich the scholarly experience and professional training of talented graduate-level students from underrepresented minority backgrounds or students with…

Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Educational & Clinical Studies), Rosa Milagros Santos and Jennifer Timmer (Illinois) published a new article, "Factors that Support and Hinder Including Infants with Disabilities in Child Care" in the Early Childhood Education Journal.