Ed. Psych. News

2011

• Katherine Ryan discusses No Child Left Behind Act waivers (UI News Bureau)
• Bullying Expert Dorothy Espelage discusses lessons that can be taken from the tragedy in Ridge Farm. (WCIA www.illinoishomepage.net)
• Profesor Dorothy Espelage on Chicago Tonight to promote an Exelon Anti-Bully Forum hosted by the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center (WTTW Chicago Tonight)
• Inequities in Educational and Psychological Outcomes Between LGBTQ and Straight Students in Middle and High School. (American Educational Research Association)
  • Meet the authors video 
• Tips If Your Child is Being Bullied   (Anderson Cooper TV Show Website)
• A Minute with Learning Technologies Expert Vanna Pianfetti (Illinois News Bureau)
• Dorothy Espelage lends expertise on bullying in reviewing new study (College of Education website)
• Children view same-race friendships differently for blacks, whites (Illinois News Bureau)
• How limited English students move to English-only classes questioned (Illinois News Bureau)
• Power of Positive Thinking in Older Adults (Beckman Institute)
• Child bullies are prone to sexual violence as adolescents, study shows (Illinois News Bureau)
• Study: Teachers unaware of growing gender gaps in classrooms (Illinois News Bureau)
• Asst. Professor Joseph Robinson talks to WAND-TV regarding gender gaps (WAND-TV)
• A Minute with Philip Rodkin (Illinois News Bureau)
• Parents can explore new STEM magnet school at panel discussion Feb. 16 (Illinois News Bureau)
• Researchers Phil Rodkin & Dorothy Espelage are 2 of 7 experts whose work was featured at the White House Conference on Bullying Prevention. (StopBullying.gov)

2010

• Study correlates black college students' racial identity and well-being (Illinois News Bureau)
• What should be done about homophobic and cyber-bulling? (Illinois News Bureau)
• Study examines tie between aggression and caregiving environment (Illinois News Bureau)
• Several schools in Chicago, suburbs use 'Hundred Dresses' themes to teach kids (The Chicago Sun-Times)
• Racist messages post quandary for mainstream sites (The Associated Press)
• You Just Found Out Your Kid Is Being a Bully... Now What?  (NBC News EducationNation.com)
• Bullying is everyday problem (Sciences News for Kids)
• A Minute with Anti-Bullying Expert Dorothy Espelage (Illinois News Bureau)
• Danville school will be part of UI research on effectiveness of anti-bullying programs (News-Gazette)
  
• Color-Blind Racial Ideology Linked to Racism Online and Offline (Illinois News Bureau)
• On the Job: Helen Katz (Illinois News Bureau)
• Center at UB is on a mission to prevent bulling in schools (The Buffalo News)
• Brendesha Tynes named "Emerging Scholar" for 2010 by Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Diverse Education)

2009

• Espelage Featured in Discovery Channel Special on Bullying (Discovery Channel)
• See Baby Discriminate (Newsweek)
• By Third Grade, Black Students Who Self Segregate Are More Popular  (Newsweek)
• Senior Odyssey team putting what it has learned to test (The News-Gazette)
• Robinson awarded AERA grant
• Parents learn how to nip bullying in the bud (The News-Gazette)
• Students and adults benefit from local mentoring programs (Inside Illinois)
• Cancers set to ‘explode’ in Latino/a populations, expert says (UI News Bureau)
• Online racial discrimination linked to depression, anxiety in teens (Inside Illinois)
• Online Racial Discrimination Linked To Depression, Anxiety In Teens (Science Daily)

2008

• Popular girls may be popular bully targets, study suggests (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• Boy-girl bullying in middle grades more common than previously thought (UI News Bureau)
• Study on Brain Excercise for Seniors (The News-Gazette)
• Dr. Helen Farmer receives Lifetime Mentoring Award
• Reinhardt Awarded Achievement Award for work with Champaign firefighters
• Dr. Jose Mestre named NAE Mentor
• Anti-bullying film premieres (The News-Gazette)
• 10 Ways to Move Beyond Bully Prevention (And Why We Should)   (Education Week)
• Local school, U. of I. professor, part of anti-bully film debuting March 28 (UI News Bureau)
• Illinois Expert on Bullying in Schools Advises Japan & Korea
• Verbal bullying is enough to send victims over the edge  (JoongAng Daily)

2007

• Anti-gay Slurs May be Damaging to Heterosexual Students Too (Newswise)
• Benefits of online interaction for teens outweigh dangers, professor says (UI News Bureau)
• New hope for overcoming cognitive skills decline as we age. (UI News Bureau)
• Fashion Bullies Attack -- In Middle School (The Wall Street Journal Online)
• Aging adults have choices when confronting perceived mental declines (UI News Bureau)
• Bully-prevention options for schools too narrow and untested (UI News Bureau)