Doctoral Students
Yan Yan
Yan Yan is a doctoral student in Language & Literacy Education at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her areas of research include pedagogy-focused applied linguistics on writing research, deficiencies in TESOL teacher training, and applications to college academic writing instruction. Before joining BU, she taught practical English at Penn Graduate School of […]
Nina Ye
Nina Ye is a doctoral student in the Applied Human Development program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research broadly focuses on children’s social-cognitive development. Specifically, she investigates how children make use of intentions to learn and share information. The questions that guide her research are 1) What constitutes a reliable […]
Yunee H. Yoon
Yunee H. Yoon is a doctoral student in the Educational Policy Studies program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research explores how career and technical education (CTE) and STEM education affect student educational and labor market outcomes. Before joining BU Wheelock, Yunee worked directly with the governments of Korea, Zambia, […]
Xi “CiCi” Yu
Xi “CiCi” Yu is a doctoral student in Educational Studies/Math & Science Education at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research interests focus on power, identity, and race in US K–12 mathematics classrooms. CiCi is a graduate student researcher on the STEM Cascades project through the Earl Center for Learning & Innovation. […]
Weiqiao Zhang
Weiqiao (Liana) Zhang is a doctoral student in Language & Literacy Education at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Weiqiao’s research interests include academic language development, multilingual communication, and the identity construction of Chinese graduate students in English-dominant academic settings where she focuses on Chinese international students’ capability to leverage multilingual and multicultural […]