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Postdoc Receives $800K Kellogg Grant for Early Childhood Racial Equity Research
Dr. Nneka Ibekwe-Okafor (principal investigator), a postdoctoral research associate at the Center on the Ecology of Early Development has been awarded a W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant to promote racial empathy... Read More
Dietiker selected for 2022 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching
Leslie Dietiker has always been a problem solver. It started in her first high school mathematics classroom in San Francisco. Fresh out of college—where she had been a mathematics major—Dietiker joined... Read More
Sport Psychology Book by Edson Filho New Addition to Olympic World Library
A book coauthored by BU Wheelock associate professor Edson Filho was recently added to the Olympic World Library collection. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology: Research Directions to Advance the Field... Read More
Join BU Wheelock at AERA (April 21–26)
Join BU Wheelock faculty and graduate students at the American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, April 21 - 26, in San Diego, California. The theme for this year’s meeting... Read More
BU Wheelock’s Holmes Program Supports Graduate Students
Since 2014, BU Wheelock has partnered with the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education’s Holmes Program to support current master’s and doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars who self-identify as... Read More
The Teacher Workforce and the Impact of COVID-19: A Q&A with Dr. Olivia Chi
As it started to become clear that the COVID-19 pandemic would have an impact across multiple schools years, concerns regarding what some called a “mass exodus” of teachers began to... Read More
Join the 2022 BU Wheelock Forum, March 31–April 1
Join BU Wheelock and the Wheelock Education Policy Center (WEPC) on March 31 and April 1 for the 2022 BU Wheelock Forum: Examining How Teacher Workforce Policies Shape an Equity-Centered... Read More
Postdoc researcher selected for educational policy scholars program
Dr. Kirsten Slungaard Mumma, a postdoctoral research associate at the Wheelock Educational Policy Center (WEPC), has been selected for the 2021-2022 cohort of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and American... Read More
Watch: 4 Questions with BU Women’s Soccer Team Captain & BU Wheelock Student Ann Marie Jaworski
Ann Marie Jaworski, captain of BU's women's soccer team and a current graduate student at BU Wheelock studying counseling psychology and applied human development with a specialization in sports psychology, Read More
Faculty Research Spotlight: Dr. Olivia Chi
Interview by Ashley Morrow (BU SPH ’22) Olivia Chi is an assistant professor at BU Wheelock. Her research uses quantitative methods to study the economics of education, with a focus on... Read More