Congratulations to our very own Dr. Cherie M. Avent for receiving the AEA Marcia Guttentag Promising New Evaluator Award! Dr. Avent received her award plaque at the 2025 #AEA Conference in Kansas City, MO. 🔷📚🔶 #Illinois #EducationalPsychology #Evaluation

Thinking about #gradschool? 🎓 Join our #EducationalPsychology Virtual Info Session on Oct 27! Learn more about our Educational Psychology programs here 👉 bit.ly/EPSYInfo Register for the virtual info session 👉 bit.ly/EPSYRegister #Illinois #EducationalPsychology #HigherEd #EdPsych

🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr. Cherie M. Avent, recipient of the 2025 Marcia Guttentag Promising New Evaluator Award from @AEA! We’re proud to see her justice-informed evaluation scholarship recognized. 🔶🔷📚 #Illinois #EducationalPsychology #Evaluation

#FacultySpotlight ☀️ Dr. Aixa D. Marchand, Asst. Prof. of #DevelopmentalPsychology and HDFS. how culture, society & family shape students’ experiences, focusing on #CriticalConsciousness & Black parent engagement. Read her latest article here: tinyurl.com/DrMarchand1

#FacultySpotlight ☀️ Dr. Melissa Morgan is a professor in #CounselingPsychology studying thriving, social justice, and immigration in #Latinx populations. Check out her incredible book "Critical Resilience and Thriving in Response to Systemic Oppression" here: tinyurl.com/DrMorgan1

#FacultySpotlight ☀️ Dr. Xu Li is an Associate Professor in #CounselingPsychology researching psychotherapy from multicultural contexts and using advanced quantitative methods in psychotherapy research. Check out his two recent publications here: (1) tinyurl.com/DrXuLi1 (2) tinyurl.com/DrXuLi2

Kicking off the school year with a #FacultyHighlight! ☀️ Dr Kaylin Ratner @kratner.bsky.social Asst. Prof. in #EducationalPsychology & #HDFS, explores purpose & anxiety in youth in two new articles: (1) tinyurl.com/DrRatner1 (2) tinyurl.com/DrRatner2 #EPSY #DevelopmentalPsychology #Illinois

On Friday, May 9, Dr. Michelle Perry was honored as the inaugural Richard C. Anderson Professor of Cognitive Science Teaching & Learning for a career of outstanding research, teaching, mentorship, and leadership.

Outstanding Student Medallion, doctoral Destiny Williams-Dobosz @epsyatillinois.bsky.social More: bit.ly/44BDIN7

We 🧡 our graduate students! A few weeks ago, we celebrated graduate student appreciation week with a taco bar lunch🌮. Thank you to our graduate students for making EPSY suc wonderful place!

📚 New resources from IHSI’s Diversity Committee to help you foster belonging in the workplace. We are excited to highlight a resource by IHSI Affiliate & @epsyatillinois.bsky.social Prof Nidia Ruedas-Gracia on creating a sense of belonging on research teams! healthinstitute.illinois.edu

Congratulations to our faculty and teaching assistants who made it onto the university list of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their students for the Fall of 2024!

🚨New publication alert!!!

Kaylin Ratner and co-author Chris Napolitano of @epsyatillinois.bsky.social have published a paper exploring the 'hurry up and wait' phenomenon for today's kids. education.illinois.edu/about/news-e...

It's the most wonderful time of the year...defense season! This spring we are celebrating 4 new doctors: Dr. Destiny Williams-Dobosz, Dr. Giavanna McCall, Dr. Amos Jeng, and Dr. Shiyu Sun! Help us congratulate them 🥳

Congratulations to EPSY grad student, Jennie Lee, for winning the Design Award for the 2025 Research Live! Competition 👏🏾. We know who we're contacting to help us with our slides 😃

Go see @epsyatillinois.bsky.social Ph.D. student Jennie Lee for today's finals of the Research Live! competition at the Campus Instructional Facility at 5 p.m. More: blogs.illinois.edu/view/1526/18...

Congratulations to EPSY graduate student, Jennie Lee, for advancing to the final round of the 2025 Research Live! competition!

Spring Break may be next week, but the faculty are still in that semester grind!

Another example of our faculty being leading experts in their fields!

H. Chad Lane of @epsyatillinois.bsky.social and the INVITE AI institute was part of a group of Illinois experts who spoke with policymakers and industry leaders about how the university is leading in AI research and preparing the AI-powered workforce.

Don't forget to support our students!

This Thursday and Friday the College of Education is hosting the annual Graduate Student Conference, and we have plenty of EPSY students presenting. If you have time this week, we suggest stopping by and hearing about their amazing work!

We know that it can be busy as a student here. So, we wanted to ensure you have the space to do anything you need to do without running home. We offer the following comfort spaces in the College:

Today Assistant Professor, Cherie Avent, hosted a fireside chat for the College of Education (COE). The event was moderated by doctoral candidate, Taiylor Rayford. Big thanks to COE Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Karla Möller, and Graduate Embassador, Itrat Sultan for planning the event

Happy Wednesday from our Counseling Psychology Division! Today we have 2 members from Dr. Neville's Liberation Lab, Whitney Clarke (left) and Cherese Waight (right)

THIS WEDNESDAY!!

Happy #MoneyMonday! Today we are highlight 2 faculty projects that have been funded by the Center For Spcial and Behavioral Science at Illinois, Small Grant Program

🚨New Publication Alert🚨 from EPSY Assistant Professor Nidia Ruedas-Gracia!!

New year, 🚨new publication alert🚨 from EPSY Alum Jack Dempsey, and EPSY faculty Nigel Bosch and Kiel Christianson.

Looking forward to speaking on this panel.Come join us! @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social @aeratepsig.bsky.social @epsyatillinois.bsky.social

In 2 weeks catch Epsy's own Doctoral Candidate Destiny talk about Critical, Multicultural, and decolonial research methods!!

Happy first week back! We are all excited to be back in the office. Today we caught J.R. Walls with her first publication.

Congratulations to Dean Mouza and Dr. Commodore!

Congrats to @epsyatillinois.bsky.social professor and @ciatillinois.bsky.social interim head Helen Neville on being named a professor at The Center for Advanced Study. Neville is the second Education faculty member named CAS professor, joining James D. Anderson.

Congratulations to Professor Helen Neville for being appointed as a permanent faculty member of The Center for Advanced Study (CAS) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign!