 | Dr. Jess Gladstone
Assistant Professor
*Considering accepting new students for Fall 2025 | - Achievement motivation
- Engagement in STEM
- Role of socializers in student motivation
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 | Dr. Jarrett Lewis
Assistant Professor *Accepting new students | - Trauma, socioemotional development, racial identity and masculinity
- Healing from trauma due to violence and racism
- Academic engagement and mental health intervention development
- TRIAD Lab Website
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 | Dr. Nidia Ruedas-Gracia
Assistant Professor *Considering accepting new students | - sociocultural impacts on academic performance and wellbeing
- culturally sustaining research and practice
- sense of belonging among diverse populations
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 | Dr. Aixa Marchand
Assistant Professor *Considering accepting new students | - Critical Consciousness Development
- Students and families of color
- Mixed Methods
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 | Dr. Chris Napolitano
Associate Professor & Division Chair *Accepting new students (in Dev. Science) | - Social, emotional, and behavioral skills
- Self-regulation and self-control
- Adolescence
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 | Dr. Michelle Perry
Professor *Does not plan to accept new advisees for Fall 2025 | - Understanding the contexts and processes that support success in STEM, including:
- Elementary school teachers learning to improve their teaching of mathematics;
- Understanding how college students, from groups underrepresented in STEM fields, succeed in STEM college courses.
- For more info, see https://perryresearchgroupatillinois.weebly.com
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 | Dr. Kaylin Ratner
Assistant Professor *Unlikely to accept new students for Fall 2025 | - Identity, purpose, and meaning in life
- Adolescence and emerging adulthood
- Mental health and well-being
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 | Dr. Hongyang Zhao
Adjunct Assistant Professor *Not accepting advisees | - Development of relational reasoning ability and relational mindset
- Instructional strategies leveraging children's cognitive resources effectively
- Developing measurement tools and research synthesis
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