LEARNING & COGNITION NEWSLETTER
2021
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Dear Learning & Cognition alumni, students, and friends, It has been another eventful year, to say the least! A whole year of teaching, learning, research, and service conducted remotely during the pandemic! We committed ourselves to self-care and supporting one another, and I am so proud of each and every one of our students and alums! I also am proud to report that our Educational Psychology program continues to be ranked well by U.S. News and World Report, and FSU’s College of Education as a whole rose 19 places in the rankings to an all-time high of #18 among all public education-related colleges. Our fully online master’s program in Learning & Cognition continues to expand. Our first large cohort is finishing its first year, and we are admitting 25 new students for Fall 2021. We are excited to grow our L&C family! The COVID GRE waivers have been a great help for recruiting, but (good news) we received approval to continue to waive the GRE for qualified applicants even after the COVID waivers are over. Given the successful rollout of vaccines so far, the current plan is for all of FSU to go back to “normal” in Fall 2021. I am looking forward to seeing folks in person at colloquia again and resuming our shared lunches at those events. Our online folks can still, of course, join us by Zoom. If anything, the pandemic has taught us all how to create and sustain communities online using technology! Our students and alumni continue to make a difference, as you will see in their updates. In particular, the L&C faculty were pleased to award Candace Norris-Holiwski, Yanyu Pan, Juhee Kim, Wenting Song, Jacourie Clark, Mira Talpau Joos, and Cheyeon Ha with L&C research funds to support their preliminary and dissertation research studies. As you know, resources for conducting research that makes a difference in the lives of all learners can be hard to come by, so donations to our Learning & Cognition foundation account are extremely helpful. Students have used these funds to buy software programs, provide incentives to participants, and print survey materials. Please consider giving back to support your newest colleagues via the L&C research fund…even a small amount can make a huge difference! After we have raised $20,000, we will convert this fund to an endowment account that will generate interest that we can use to pay for scholarships. You may contact me (aroehrig@fsu.edu) or Kevin Derryberry (kderryberry@foundation.fsu.edu) to donate to this important fund. See more details about how to give at the end of this newsletter. Every little bit helps! Alumni, we would love your feedback on the L&C program, as you are important members of our community. Please email me if you have any comments or suggestions! Through this newsletter, I hope you enjoy reading about what some of your colleagues—including alumni, current students, and faculty— are doing. There are so many interesting projects, areas of study, and inspirational updates! Cheers,
Alysia Alysia Roehrig, PhD L&C Graduate Program Coordinator EPLS Associate Department Chair
FACULTY UPDATES BETH PHILLIPS The biggest news of the past year is that in fall 2020 I applied for and was awarded a sabbatical for Spring 2022! I am looking forward to the opportunity to expand my knowledge and to build a multi-university collaborative team related to vocabulary instruction in early childhood. In addition, numerous students defended proposals (Pam, Chelsea, Sisi, James) and I am so proud to announce the newest Ph.D. in the Learning and Cognition family, Dr. Mike Mesa who is now off on a new adventure with a postdoctoral fellowship at the Children’s Learning Institute at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston. James Herandez and Dr. Pam Burris defended their final documents this summer as well! This year has been full of successes and challenges, with the challenges mostly relating to the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on research and professional development activities. Multiple field-based research activities had to be paused last spring. We are meeting this challenge by converting data collection efforts to remote assessments and to in-person no-contact socially distant assessment methods. Working to adapt to these circumstances has the benefit of helping me and my research teams develop new skills and knowledge that we hope to apply to furthering the reach of our projects in the future. In 2020 I published multiple collaborative papers and products including a special issue paper on the Science of Reading with colleagues from the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) and a special issue paper on teacher knowledge. I also co-led the development of a peer-reviewed comprehensive set of professional development materials in Emergent Literacy released in December 2020 and freely available to early childhood educators across the country. During this year I have been actively collaborating with students and former students on multiple conference presentation submissions and manuscripts in progress and under review. These focus on teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and attitudes related to how to support language development during early childhood, peer-effects during small-group tier 2 language interventions, teacherstudent relationships in early childhood and other topics related to my larger program of research on early childhood school readiness, and language and literacy development and instruction. I led and collaborated on multiple grant submissions to the Institute of Education Sciences this past summer-including one intervention project very likely to be funded and initiated this coming school year as a partnership with colleagues at Florida International University in Miami. I also collaborated with a very large team to submit, this spring, the application for FSU/FCRR to lead the Regional Educational Laboratory-Southeast (REL-SE) for a third five-year cycle. Dr. Chris Lonigan in Psychology and I also were awarded a multi-year grant from the State of Florida Office of Early Learning related to teachers’ use of progress monitoring assessments in Florida’s Voluntary Prekindergarten program. During the past year, with funding from the REL-SE I led a team in providing professional development on supporting early language and vocabulary development to over 300 preschool and kindergarten teachers and coaches. I am very excited that the Office of Early Learning will be supporting a second year of professional development delivery and research in the coming year—we intend to provide PD opportunities for up to 650 new and returning participants in the coming year. This past year we fully adapted live workshops to an online webinar format—with great success thanks to the creativity and hard work of my amazing team at FCRR. Many other projects, including two ongoing meta-analytic projects, and representing numerous collaborations with (and led by) students are ongoing and likely to lead to presentations, publications, and other dissemination products in the coming year.
FACULTY UPDATES (CONT.) ALYSIA ROEHRIG Not much new to report with me this year…I am just grateful to have survived remote schooling and no daycare while working from home with my husband deployed with the National Guard for COVID support! However, it brought me a lot of satisfaction to feel like I was able to make a difference in my roles as Associate Department Chair, Coordinator of the Learning and Cognition program, Co-Director of Research for the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) Developmental Research School’s Freedom School, and Director of the PURPOSE research training program. The PURPOSE and Freedom Schools teams are so excited to be able to finally get back to our work supporting the young scholars at FAMU’s Developmental Research School this summer…we missed them when there were no summer camps in 2020 due to COVID! The Freedom Schools program will include a partnership with the Temple Fit program, which will support the wellness of the scholars again this summer. Many of Learning & Cognition students, and even an alum, are involved in this work at Freedom Schools and with PURPOSE, including Cheyeon Ha (who will examine our longitudinal Freedom Schools data for her dissertation), Erik Rawls (who plans to do his dissertation on the service learning opportunities of our PURPOSE fellows at Freedom Schools), Chelsea Funari, Shawna Durtschi, Camille Lewis, and Dr. Mike Mesa. Many of us working with Freedom Schools and PURPOSE (including Dr. Turner) also contributed to the special issue of the Florida Journal of Educational Research on Education Research for Equity and Social Justice in Florida, which I helped guest edit (https://feraonline.org/ journal/instructions-for-special-issue-2020/). The goal of PURPOSE (Partners United for Research Pathways Oriented to Social Justice in Education) is to support the development of research skills in diverse students from FAMU and FSU, especially as it relates to social justice and culturally relevant research (visit www.PURPOSEtraining.org). It is funded by the Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences: Pathways Training Program competition. PURPOSE fellows from FSU and FAMU participate in mentoring regarding preparing for and applying to doctoral programs related to education to help increase the diversity of the doctorate in education. The program welcomed its fourth and final cohort of 16 fellows this year (totally remote so far!). However, Dr. Turner and I successfully applied for an additional $1.5 round of funding for PURPOSE that was awarded this summer. Now we will be able to support an additional four cohorts in years to come! My stint as PI will end as the final year of the first grant wrap up in 2022, but Dr. Turner (the new PI) and I will serve as co-directors until 2023. In addition, I am proud of my new PhD graduate, Dr. Angelina Kuleshova, featured above at her COVID-delayed hooding ceremony. She continues to work as an associate professor at Tallahassee Community College, where she will be president of the Faculty Senate. With regards to other ongoing research, Guillermo Farfan and Laura Jakiel are making great progress on their dissertations on math instructional beliefs and epistemology (Farfan) and an intervention to support the self-regulated writing practices of college students (Jakiel). July Diaz (process of faculty change in the Learning Assistants program), Shawna Durtschi (predictors of opportunities and resources provided by public libraries), and Makana Craig (motivational potential of culturally relevant and responsive education at Freedom Schools) completed their prelims and are homing in on their dissertation topics. Candace Norris-Holiwski (self-regulation and conscientiousness of online learners), Mira Talpau Joos (heritage language learning and motivation), and Jacourie Clark (Black undergraduates’ perceptions of course-based factors associated with lower academic stress) are making excellent progress on their preliminary studies. Jacourie did his MS with us, and then started the PhD in summer 2020! I also welcomed two more new doc students in the fall, Camille Lewis (former PURPOSE fellow) and Tolu Jegede (former college writing instructor), who are currently working on their prelim proposals; I am so excited for their work, which aims to support transfer of research-based practices to teaching (Lewis) and explore sources of educational trauma in college students (Jegede). Last but not least, congratulations to my online MS advisee, Laura Fitzpatrick, on completing the program!
FACULTY UPDATES (CONT.) JEANNINE TURNER My research interests focus on issues related to students’ motivation, emotions, selfregulation, and learning. Most of my research projects continue to focus on learning a foreign/second language or engineering education. Although this past Covid-year interfered with a lot of plans, I managed to have a few accomplishments. First, with respect to research on foreign/second language learning, I was really happy to have an article published in Learning and Individual Differences with Banban Li (my past visiting scholar) and Maipeng Wei. Also, I was invited to publish a chapter in the forthcoming Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Individual Differences (coming out this fall). In this chapter, I present research on Goal Complexes (combinations of reasons and goals) that I completed with Banban Li, my current students Yanyu Pan and Juhee Kim, and my former student Yanyan Chen. I was honored to part of this Handbook, and excited to highlight the interesting work we have done. With respect to my Dean’s Circle grant to investigate engineering students, Covid messed that up in several ways. Still, Min Tang and I were able to collect some quantitative data, and we are still planning on collecting interviews this summer. I hope we find something interesting through the qualitative analysis, as I have committed to submit an NSF grant in January! I have also been involved in shame-related research with my colleagues from Harding University. First, I am working with James Huff to conduct a workshop on professional shame at the American Association of Engineering Education. We have also submitted two conference proposals dealing with professional shame, Frontiers in Education (engineering education) and AERA. I am working with Jeremiah Sullins (along with Juhee Kim) to submit a manuscript for publication, as well as an AERA conference presentation, on research that demonstrates shame interrupts cognitive functions. I’m also knee-deep in program evaluation for a huge grant given to University of Florida and Florida State University Colleges of Medicine. This has multiple pieces to keep up with, and I feel like I’m in meetings all the time! I’m also the program evaluator for James Huff’s NSF-funded career grant (focused on professional shame in engineering). That grant begins this summer and will be a joy to work on. I’m also currently working with faculty in our own FAMU-FSU College of Engineering on their grant proposals. With all this grant work, I may need to retire and just complete program evaluations! Finally, I am also grateful that our PURPOSE grant has been funded for another grant-cycle. For the next cycle, I will be the Principal Investigator, but Alysia and I will continue to lead this together. This grant also has a lot of pieces to hold together, so we need all the hands we can get! We’ve had some publications this past year on our grant activities, so you should see Alysia’s piece for more information on that. All in all, this year has been more productive than I expected it would be. We’ve got lots of great things going on!
STUDENT PROFILES & UPDATES We enjoy featuring our current students! Takes some time to get to know our students, learn their interests, and hear their updates! JAMES HERNANDEZ I successfully defended my master’s thesis proposal exploring the role of culture in classroom management this past summer. I am also very proud to have earned the Mark DeGraff & Lula Hamilton DeGraff Research Loan Scholarship Fund in Education and the Dr. Linda J. Smith Endowed Scholarship for Lifelong Learning. Lastly, Mike Mesa, Dr. Phillips, and I recently presented at the American Educational Research Association on peer effects in small-group language interventions.
WESLEY SPORE I am currently a distance student in the Educational Psychology master’s program located in Melbourne Florida. I hated school. I always struggled with it and never thought I would attend college. However, the Learning and Cognition program has reframed my outlook on education, helped uncover my passion for guiding students within higher learning institutions, and provided the space for me to research my interests of motivations and growth mindsets. I am currently searching for work at local universities near my hometown to help other students who struggled like me, while finishing up my last few semesters in the program. I am truly grateful for the education I have received with Florida State. Go Noles!
CHEYEON HA I am Cheyeon, from South Korea, currently a Ph.D. student in the L&C program. I am doing my dissertation study under the advisement of Dr. Roehrig on the Freedom Schools research project. My current study is focusing on childrens’ prosocial efficacy and their different reading growth trajectories. My research interests are the social-emotional development of children and learning supports for students in ethnically or economically underprivileged populations. Last year, I taught the educational psychology course, and I learned a lot from the teaching experiences. I always appreciate getting lots of learning opportunities and meeting amazing folks in this program. I hope to meet you all face-toface at the beautiful fall campus.new chapter in my life!
JULIETH DÍAZ Hi! My name is Julieth Díaz, I am from Colombia, and I am a third year PhD student in the L&C program. I work as a Graduate Assistant at the FSU Center for the Advancement of Teaching, and my research interests focus on encouraging faculty to implement changes to their teaching practices and beliefs. I defended my prelim study this spring semester
STUDENT PROFILES & UPDATES (CONT.) ANDRIA COLE Andria Cole is a PhD student in the Educational Psychology Learning and Cognition program. Her research focuses on Black male success from Kindergarten through graduate school. She is especially interested in the success of Black, male PhDs in non-medical STEM fields. Currently she is preparing to defend her preliminary study ‘Identifying the Factors in the Success of Black, Male STEM Faculty’. Outside of school, Andria enjoys attending sporting events and taking road trips with her husband.
CANDACE NORRIS-HOLIWSKI Candace Norris-Holiwski is entering her third year in the Learning & Cognition PhD program at FSU. In addition to pursuing a PhD, she is a full-time psychology lecturer at a rural college located in southeast Georgia. Her current research interest revolves around the influence of individual student differences and their impact on online learning outcomes. She resides in Broxton, GA with her husband and three cats. Below is a picture of Candace in the classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic.
GUILLERMO FARFAN Since the last update, I passed my preliminary exam and defended my dissertation prospectus (on prospective teachers’ instructional readiness in mathematics) earlier last year. I’m currently wrapping up data collection and will be working on the last two chapters of my dissertation soon! On a related note, I’m very grateful to be involved in a large-scale project in my area, mathematics education, at the Learning Systems Institute. This has resulted in a handful of outreach opportunities, including a pair of conference presentations, a blog post, and one paper currently under review. Despite the difficulties brought by the current pandemic, I’m fortunate my family and I are doing well. I look forward to the day I can congregate with my L&C family before long!
HOLLY HUNT Holly presented virtually to the National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) on February 26, 2021. The presentation focused on an academic probation initiative supporting University Housing student employees (Resident Assistants and Desk Assistants). The presentation was titled, “Supporting Those Who Support Our Students: An Academic Probation Initiative for University Housing Student Employees.” In addition, Holly created, administered, and analyzed a program evaluation survey focused on student veterans’ experiences with the Transition Assistance Program (TAP) and admissions/enrollment in their chosen institution. The results were presented virtually on February 10th, 2021 at the Council on Military Transition to Education (CMTE). The Hunt family welcomed a daughter, Katherine (“Kate”), July 14, 2020. Holly was also promoted to Teaching Faculty III starting in August 2020 - congratulations!
NEW PH.D. GRADUATES Congratulations to our new Ph.D. graduates! DR. MICHAEL P. MESA Michael P. Mesa graduated with his PhD in the spring. He also recently presented his research on peer effects at the American Educational Research Association Conference. This summer, Michael began a post-doctoral fellowship with the Children’s Learning Institute at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He is grateful for the knowledge, skills, and friendships he developed at Florida State University. He plans to return to Tallahassee to participate in a traditional in-person graduation ceremony in a future semester.
DR. ANGELINA KULESHOVA Angelina Kuleshova graduated with a Ph.D. during the pandemic in summer 2020, when all graduations were cancelled due to COVID. In spring 2021, her accomplishment finally was honored in a special College of Education doctoral hooding ceremony. This summer, there was more good news, as she was promoted to Associate Dean of Science & Mathematics at Tallahassee Community College.
Angelina was hooded by Dr. Alysia Roehrig
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS
MARGARETA M. THOMSON (PH.D. ‘08) This past year has been a challenging one for me, as I’m sure many of you had similar experiences trying to balance responsibilities at work, parenting during pandemic, and living a semi-normal life, in general. Despite these challenges, I was able to continue my work and international collaborations, particularly in research. The 5-year NIH project “Environmental Health Research Experiences for Teachers in High-Poverty Schools” in which I serve as the PI received a one year extension, and most recently, two of the graduate students working in the project won the second place in the “PackPics” for their research posters in the annual NC State University competition. Also, my collaboration with faculty abroad, following the Fulbright Award project in Romania, resulted in a few publications. One of the most recent is an edited book, for which I am a co-editor, about non-formal education and interdisciplinary learning contexts. You can find more details on the book’s webpage.
JEANNE O’KON (PH.D. ‘94) Dr. Jeanne O’Kon is a psychologist and college professor at Flagler College Tallahassee. She previously served as the Program Chair of the Tallahassee Community College Behavioral Sciences department. Dr. O’Kon is a graduate of Florida State University, receiving her B.S. and M.S. in Psychology and her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology. Dr. O’Kon has instructed classes in General Psychology, Psychology of Women, Research Methods, and Teacher Education at TCC, Flagler College, and Florida State University. Dr. O’Kon directed the Taiwan Sister School Program and traveled to Kaohsiung, Taiwan many times to teach English with TCC and Flagler College students in the summer. She has given annual presentations at the University of Florida Women’s Leadership Conference and at other professional meetings. She chaired the TCC Women’s History Month Committee for many years and still serves as an active committee member. She was appointed by Leon County Commissioner Bryan Desloge to serve on the Tallahassee/Leon County Commission on the Status of Women and Girls when it began in 2011. She continues to serve as a Commissioner, volunteering many hours on behalf of local girls and women. Dr. O’Kon has served as the race director for the Girl Scout Council fundraiser, the “Run for the Cookies,” for the past 25 years. Because of her volunteer work with the Girl Scout Council, she was selected as a “Woman of Distinction” in 2003 and was elected to the Girl Scout “Hall of Fame” in 2008. She is an active member of Gulf Winds Track Club, volunteering with local road races which raise funds for charitable organizations such as Refuge House and the Kearney Center. She was selected by the Tallahassee Democrat as one of “25 Women You Need to Know.”
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS (CONT.)
KENNETH KIEWRA (PH.D. ‘82) Dr. Kenneth Kiewra is a professor of educational psychology at the University of NebraskaLincoln and was awarded the 2021 Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award by the University System of Nebraska.
TIM PRESSLEY (PH.D. ‘15) I’ve had a busy year with four publications in Educational Researcher, Psychology in the Schools, The Teacher Educators’ Journal, and Journal of Educational Leadership in Action. My main focus with research this year has been on the impact of COVID-19 on teachers; I have teamed up with current L&C student, Cheyeon Ha, for further analysis of that data. Lastly, I’ve been working on a chapter for the book “Teaching Learning for Effective Instruction,” which is part of the “Theory to practice: Teaching educational psychology” series (published in early 2022). Beyond work, I’ve enjoyed watching my daughter, Ellison, grow from a baby to a toddler as she will be two in September.
VIRTUAL L&C COLLOQUIA
SPRING 2021 PRESENTERS AND TOPICS 1/15: Dr. Roehrig, Dr. Turner, and Dr. Phillips Discussed Their Research Dr. Alysia Roehrig
VIRTUAL L&C COLLOQUIA (CONT.)
Dr. Jeannine Turner
Dr. Beth Phillips
VIRTUAL L&C COLLOQUIA (CONT.) 1/29: Guillermo Farfan Presented “Rethinking the Understanding of the Equal Sign Among Elementary Children”
2/12: Graduates Dr. Courtney Barry (Left), Dr. Keli Swearingen (Right), Dr. Galiya Tabluda (Bottom) Gave Advice to Current L&C Students
VIRTUAL L&C COLLOQUIA (CONT.)
2/26: Dr. Michael Mesa and James Hernandez Presented Research Findings The acquisition of language abilities are important developmental tasks in early childhood. Research suggests that the language abilities of young children are positively influenced by their exposure to complex language from their peers in the school environment. However, this relation has not been explored in the context of small-group instruction in early childhood. This study estimated the effect of peer expressive language (i.e., peer effects) on the language development of pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students participating in a targeted, small-group intervention. The results suggest that peer expressive language is related to the development of children’s language abilities in the context of smallgroup instruction. However, the relation may be more complex than expected and may vary depending on the measure and operationalization of peer effects that is used.
3/12: Graduates - Dr. Tim Pressley (Left) and Dr. Meagan Arrastia-Chisholm (Right) Answered Questions and Gave Advice to Current L&C Students
VIRTUAL L&C COLLOQUIA (CONT.)
3/26: Graduates - Dr. Kelly Torres (Top Left), Dr. Shiyi Chen (Top Right), Dr. Crissie Jameson (Bottom Left), Dr. Margareta Thomson (Bottom Right) Answered Questions and Gave Advice to Current L&C Students
4/9: Andria Cole presented her preliminary research findings during colloquia. The title of her preliminary research study is “Identifying the Factors in the Success of Black, Male STEM Faculty.”
FORWARD PROGRESS Help us celebrate our successes over the past year! L&C Graduations Doctoral graduates: • Dr. Mike Mesa • Dr. Pam Burris • Dr. Angelina Kuleshova Master’s graduates: • Laura L. Fitzpatrick • Katherine A. Lopez • Regan Reed • Desiree Descartes • Rebecca Thoennissen • Anna Schmitz L&C Defenses • • • • •
Thesis proposal defense: James Hernandez Thesis defense: James Hernandez Qualifier defenses: Jacourie Clark, Tolu Jegede, Juhee Kim, Camille Lewis, and Youngmin Oh Preliminary proposal defenses: Jacourie Clark, Andria Cole, Mira Talpau Joos, and Yanyu Pan Preliminary exam defenses: Chena Chen, July Diaz, Sisi Dong, Shawna Durtschi, Chelsea Funari, Darcey Liang, and Yanyu Pan • Dissertation prospectus defense: Guillermo Farfan and Laura Jakiel • Dissertation Defense: Pam Burris, Angelina Kuleshova, Mike Mesa, and Rebecca Turk
ONLINE CONFERENCES STAYING CONNECTED AT ONLINE CONFERENCES Learning Disabilities Research Centers/Learning Disabilities (LDRC/LD) Hub Meeting • Pam Burris • Sisi Dong • Chelsea Funari • Mike Mesa American Educational Research Association • Chena Chen & Dr. Turner • Makana Craig & Dr. Roehrig • Cheyeon Ha • Laith Jum’ah • Juhee Kim & Dr. Turner • Mike Mesa, James Hernandez, & Dr. Phillips American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) • Min Tang & Dr. Turner • Learning Assistants Research Symposium • July Diaz Conference on Teaching & Learning, organized by the University of South Alabama • July Diaz Florida Council of Teachers of Mathematics (FCTM) Annual Conference • Guillermo Farfan American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) • Mira Talpau Joos National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) conference • Holly Hunt presented
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
MISSION STATEMENT As a graduate-level program, Learning and Cognition’s mission is to provide cutting-edge, individualized training for those who wish to earn graduate degrees focused on theory, research, and application in the areas of cognition, learning, and human development. We serve students who come from many backgrounds to apply Learning and Cognition in research, classroom, government, or organizational settings. Our program is highly flexible, allowing students to select the training that meets their needs. Through close mentorship and apprenticeship, we provide an excellent grounding in research to support evidence-based practice and contribute to the free, open-access of innovative research that informs teaching and learning wherever it happens. CORE VALUES As a program, all aspects of our work (teaching, research, and service) are guided by the following values. We seek to instill these values in our students as well: Ethics—interacting with students and participants, ensuring data security and integrity of data collection, analyses, and reporting of research Community of practice—engaging in respectful collaboration with peers/faculty, and with stakeholders in the applied community Critical thinking & lifelong learning—supporting engagement, mastery learning, and knowledge acquisition Inclusiveness—maintaining an interdisciplinary focus and appreciation for diversity
KEEP IN TOUCH PLEASE SHARE YOUR PHOTOS, PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL UPDATES, AND MORE! Please consider sharing your own update for the next newsletter! By sharing and making connections through information submitted by members of our community, we are better able to help graduates identify career tracks, job openings, research collaborators, and even funding. Send your information to Dr. Alysia Roehrig at aroehrig@fsu.edu. Alumni: Please share your title/current position, major/degree, major professor/year of graduation, contact info, any particular research or professional interests you would like to share/get assistance with, personal news, any opportunities or requests for current students or faculty in terms of collaboration, etc. Current students: Please share your major/degree, major professor, ongoing or future research projects, assistance needed, etc. CONSIDER MENTORING AND/OR COLLABORATING WITH A CURRENT STUDENT Please consider mentoring and/or collaborating with a current student. Our students and alumni do many amazing things, as evidenced by the updates in this newsletter. We can further this work even more by sharing and making connections across faculty, alumni, and current students. Take a look at the research current students are doing to see if you can find a new collaborator. Connecting alumni to current students allows for tremendous networking opportunities for our current students while keeping alumni plugged in and providing an opportunity to support our current students. We look forward to expanding this process and are excited about the opportunities ahead! If interested, please contact Dr. Alysia Roehrig at aroehrig@fsu.edu and she will help connect you. CONSIDER A GIFT TO L&C We are working very hard to build an endowment that can be self-sustaining. With your help, we will be able to accomplish this goal and make it possible to more significantly support an increased number of deserving students. Please consider making a donation to support current and future Learning & Cognition graduate students’ research and conference travel! You can make secure donations online at https://fla.st/GUINVGYY. Checks may be mailed to the College of Education (1114 West Call St.; Tallahassee, FL 32306-4450) or the University Foundation Office (2010 Levy Ave # 300, Tallahassee, FL 32310). You can pay online or by check, just be sure to specify “Learning & Cognition Student Support Fund” or “Fund # F08101” in the memo/tribute line. You can also contact our foundation officer, Kevin Derryberry, at (850) 228-5021 or via email at kderryberry@foundation.fsu.edu.