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The Tri-Psychology Programs – Educational Psychology, Psychology, and the Institute of Child Development (ICD) – at the University of Minnesota are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 Tri-Psych Graduate Student Diversity Fund grants. The goal of the awards is to build community and facilitate cross-departmental collaborations among Tri-Psych graduate students of color and/or […]

Special education alumni Maria Hugh was recently awarded the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) J. David Sexton Doctoral Student Award. Hugh was nominated by associate professor LeAnne Johnson for her community involvement, research skills and academic achievements. According to the DEC website, the J. David Sexton Doctoral Student Award is given to a DEC member and doctoral-level […]

Faculty and students from the Department of Educational Psychology’s school psychology program—including Birkmaier Education Leadership Professor and Program Coordinator Amanda Sullivan; Associate Professor Faith Miller; Senior Lecturer Annie Hansen-Burke, PhD students Nicole McEverett, Alexandra Muldrew, and Mollie Weeks—published an article that was featured on the front page of Communiqué on advancing equity during COVID-19. Communiqué […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has led young children and their parents to spend more time together engaged in unstructured play, including in outdoor settings. “Decades of research documents the value of these experiences along a number of dimensions, and yet much less research focuses on the texture of parent-child conversations in these settings, in particular moment-by-moment, […]

Michael Rodriguez—associate dean, incoming interim dean, and Campbell Leadership Chair in the College of Education and Human Development and professor in the Department of Educational Psychology—talks with former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and Patrice Relerford. Rybak is now president and CEO and Releford is director of impact strategy—both at the Minneapolis Foundation. Rodriguez serves on […]

Reese Butterfuss, a PhD graduate student in the psychological foundations of education program in the Department of Educational Psychology, has been awarded the Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award (JAOYSA) for his dissertation on “Revising Misconceptions with Multiple Documents.” According to the Society of Text and Discourse webpage, The JAOYSA honors the memory of Jason Albrecht, a […]

Dr. Steven R. Yussen is retiring after a 48 year career as a faculty member and dean at multiple institutions. He is widely known for his research on children’s learning and cognitive development and for his work on reading comprehension and memory. He began his training at the University of Minnesota, as a graduate student […]

Three papers and five posters by researchers in the Department of Educational Psychology’s psychological foundations of education and quantitative methods in education programs were accepted for presentation at the annual meetings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (ICCM), Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS), and the Cognitive Science Society (CSS). Due to COVID-19, the […]

Warren Shaffer, PhD, passed away on April 12 in Mesa, Arizona at age 83. Shaffer was a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and a core faculty member in the counseling and student personnel psychology program until his retirement in the 1990s. Shaffer also maintained a private practice of psychology in St. Paul, Minnesota. […]

As we all practice social distancing during COVID-19, many of us are looking for ways to entertain and improve ourselves, connect with others, and help our children continue to learn. According to William Bart, professor of educational psychology in the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development, online chess training may be just the mental challenge and […]