Puyuan Zhang is a new postdoc in the lab! She just arrived from the University of Hong Kong. We are so glad to have you!
Ji-Eun Lee (WPI) and Anthony Botelho (University of Florida and WPI alum!) were awarded a 2 year EAGER RETTL grant from NSF to examine collaborative problem solving in mathematics!
Erin Ottmar was awarded a 3 year NSF BCSER grant to examine how web-based eye gaze and cognitive control measures could be embedded into classroom online experiments to unpack the mechanisms of perceptual cues on students math performance and learning! Stay tuned for results.
Ji-Eun Lee, Erin Ottmar, and Megan Kuhfeld (HMH/NWEA) were awarded a 1 year grant from the Center for Reimagining Public Education and the Walton Family Foundation to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on high school students math performance and course taking trajectories nationally! Stay tuned for results!
Erin Ottmar, Ji-Eun Lee, Avery Harrison (Purdue, LST PhD 2022), and Caroline Hornburg (VT), were awarded a 3 year NSF EHR Core Grant to examine the role of perceptual cues on students math performance and learning!
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2023 MAPLE LAB and LST GRADUATES!!!!
Hannah Smith- PhD! (She will be an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Assumption University!)
Paul Pacheco- Masters! He is staying for his PhD!
Andrew McReynolds- Masters! He is staying for his PhD!
Renah Razzaq- PhD! She is continuing to teach and inspire students at Doherty High School in Worcester!
Cindy Trac- BS in Computer Science and Teaching License!
Siddhartha Pradhan- BS in Computer Science and Data Science! He is staying for his Masters!
Nellie Rushton (Doherty Memorial High School Valedictorian!) graduated from High School! She will be attending Stanford next year and is continuing Learning Sciences research!
Congrats to Reilly Norum!
Reilly won the 2023 Best Paper Award for Instructional Technology from the American Educational Research
Association (AERA) for her senior thesis!
Congrats to Paul Pacheco!
Paul won the Honorary Undergraduate Research Award at the New England Psychological Association!
Congrats to Nellie Rushton!
Nellie, a high school senior at Doherty High School and a 3 year research assistant in our lab presented her work on Computational Thinking at NERA and NEPA Conferences! She also received the 2022 Worcester Young Woman of Consequence Award!!! She also got into Stanford and will be attending college next year! And she wants to continue Learning Sciences!
Congrats to Paul Pacheco!
Also Accepted to the LST Masters Program! We are so excited you are staying with us for a few more years!!
Erin received an NSF CAREER Award!
Congrats to Jenny Yun-Chen Chan!
Jenny is a new Assistant Professor at the Education University of Hong Kong!
We miss you but are so excited for your new adventures!!
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2022 MAPLE LAB GRADUATES!!!!
Avery Closser- PhD! (Shes at Purdue for a Postdoc with David Purpura!)
Vy Ngo- Masters! She is a project coordinator for research.
Luisa Perez-Lacera- Masters! She is doing educational data science research for a non-profit!
Paul Pacheco- BS Psychology (He is staying for his masters and PhD in LST!)
Reilly Norum- BS Computer Science. She is working as a computer scientist at Staples!
Lilly-Beth Linnel- BS Psychology (She is staying for her masters in Neuroscience!)