2025 Emerging Scholar Awardee: Alyssa Raygoza
Educational Psychology, Educational and Developmental Science
The 2026 Graduate Student Research Symposium will take place on March 24, 2026.
For more Symposium information, visit this Google Docs document.
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| Schedule of Events |
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| 8:45am Registration & Welcome |
| 9:20am Ignite Session |
| 10:10am Idea Incubator A, Poster Session |
| 11:00am Ignite Session 2 |
| 11:50am Morning Session Conclusion |
| 12:00pm Break |
| 1:30pm Registration & Welcome |
| 2:00pm Ignite Session 3 |
| 2:50pm Idea Incubator B |
| 3:45pm Ignite Session 4 |
| 4:30pm Awards Presentation & Afternoon Session Conclusion |
Faculty and Staff Mentors
- Allison Anders, Ph.D.
- Kara Brown, Ph.D.
- Ryan Carlson, Ph.D.
- Matt Cunningham, Ph.D.
- Molly Dawes, Ph.D.
- An De Mester, Ph.D.
- Suzy Hardie, Ph.D.
- Dean Thomas Hodges
- Toby Jenkins-Henry, Ph.D.
- Ashlee Lewis, Ph.D.
- Dodie Limberg, Ph.D.
- Julia López-Robertson, Ph.D.
- Davíd Martínez, Ph.D.
- Dorian McCoy, Ph.D.
- Meir Muller, Ph.D.
- Jonathan Ohrt, Ph.D.
- Waleed Raja, Ph.D.
- Nicole Silverio, Ph.D.
- Angela Starrett, Ph.D.
- Andrea Taliaferro, Ph.D.
- Hentao Tang, Ph.D.
- Chas Thompson, Ph.D.
2025 Graduate Student Participants
- Ozgur Altintas*
- Anthonia Awhinawhi
- Jessica Barnes*
- Sonya Burns*
- Regin Dean
- Jonathan Dillensnyder
- Michael Ertel*
- Shea Ferguson*
- Shazia Hamid*
- Brittany Holden
- Katie Hopkins
- Jeremy Lewis
- Cheolho Lim
- Emily Lohrbach*
- Sylvester L. Maduna
- Giovanna Morara
- Alyssa Raygoza
- Peter Rifenburg*
- Alison Scheide
- Sam Schmoker
- Keah Tandon*
- Cornelius U-Sayee*
- Amita Verma*
- Xiaobo Wei
- Patricia Wilson*
*indicates student volunteer
2025 Awards
Emerging Scholar Award
This award goes to a student whose project is currently in development and showing promise.
Innovative Idea Award
This award goes to a researcher who is developing an innovative research pursuit.
2025 Innovative Idea Awardee: Shazia Hamid
Program and Department: Language and Literacy, Teacher Education
Graduate Student Research Award
This award goes to a student who has demonstrated exemplary completed research project.
2025 Graduate Student Research Awardee: Shea Ferguson
Program and Department: Educational Psychology, Educational and Developmental Science
Symposium Support
- Dean Thomas Hodges
- Office of Research
- Office of Communication
Symposium Organizers
- Ali Brian, Ph.D., CAPE
- Katie Cunningham, Ph.D.
- Gwen Lorinovich