Maria Olivares
Guiding Youth to Create Change through STEM
Developing young people’s sense of agency as STEM learners, community members, and creative thinkers is the driving force behind two projects led by BU Wheelock’s Earl Center for Learning & Innovation. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Nurturant STEM Learning and STEM Cascades focus on encouraging young people’s creative development, critical insight, and social thriving. […]
New Grant Supports STEM Equity Research Network
BU Wheelock’s Maria C. Olivares, research assistant professor in language & literacy and Eli Tucker-Raymond, research associate professor, have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to assist in the development of a network to coordinate research on equity practices and cultures in STEM-maker education. The project, “Coordinating Research for Critical Making Cultures and […]
Study Explores How Youth Mentors Facilitate STEM Learning, Teaching, and Doing
BU Wheelock faculty members Eli Tucker-Raymond, Maria Olivares, and Kate Frankel have been awarded a three-year grant through the National Science Foundation’s Education and Human Resources Core Research Program (ECR) to study how acting as peer mentors helps youth develop relational and personally meaningful science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) identities. The project will run […]
BU Wheelock Welcomes New Faculty Members
BU Wheelock was joined this fall by several new faculty members. Davena Jackson Clinical Assistant Professor, English Education Davena Jackson joins BU Wheelock from Michigan State University, where she completed her PhD in Curriculum, Instruction & Teacher Education. Her dissertation is titled “Black Symmetry: Carving Out a Black Space in an Eleventh-Grade English Class.” Jackson’s […]