Kate Williamson, school psychologist in Darien, CT won the 2018 Ron Edwards Dissertation Award of the Behavioral School Psychology Interest Group (BSPIG) of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP).  The award will be presented at the BSPIG meeting at the NASP Annual Convention in Chicago on February 15, 2018.

UConn’s Office of First Year Programs and Learning Communities has tapped internationally recognized creativity expert and Neag School educational psychology professor Ronald Beghetto as the faculty director of UConn’s Innovation House. https://education.uconn.edu/2017/12/11/uconn-taps-creativity-expert-beghetto-to-lead-innovation-house/

Michael Coyne, who has spent 16 years at UConn, has published 60 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious journals. He has been a principal or co-principal investigator in grant-funded projects exceeding $25 million. His research efforts are widely recognized and have been incorporated into school psychology; general and special education; and educational psychology. His practice and systems […]

In addition to publishing in such top journals as Journal of Educational Psychology, Exceptional Children, and Reading Research Quarterly, Devin Kearns has grants and contracts totaling $7.5 million. He also has collaborated with Vanderbilt University, University of Maryland, and Haskins Laboratory, and has pending projects with Florida State University and the University of South Carolina.

    Congratulations to Elizabeth Howe for winning the Teacher Education Division’s Kaleidoscope Award in Quantitative Research at the November 2017  conference in Savannah Georgia. Ms. Howe is a doctoral fellow in the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at UConn.

  Want to Think Outside of the Box? Try Sniffing a Placebo   The placebo effect is best known in medicine for making people feel better when they are given sham treatments. Now there is growing interest in using placebos to boost athletic and cognitive abilities…     Professor James Kaufman was interviewed by New Scientist about nurturing […]

Congratulations to Our NAGC Book of the Year Award Winners   Curriculum Compacting: A Guide to Differentiating Curriculum and Instruction Through Enrichment and Acceleration (2nd ed.) Prufrock Press’sCurriculum Compacting andBreaking Through! have been announced as two of the 2017 National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Book of the Year Award winners. The books were named in the Practitioner […]

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Led by educational psychology professors in the Neag School of Education, two research projects have recently been awarded a total of nearly $5 million in federal funding. https://today.uconn.edu/school-stories/5m-federal-funding-support-educational-psychology-research/?utm_source=launchdistribution&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email