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The proposed study will test a newly developed emotional support intervention for teachers. The intervention will provide a toolkit of effective emotion management strategies and different ways people think about their emotions, including how to utilize mindfulness personally and how to be more mindful with their students.

KDP grant continues funding Ritenour bilingual classroom.

The purpose of the INTERACT Incubator is to identify research needs for studying teaching practices that improve equity in STEM, and to solidify a detailed design plan for infrastructure to address these needs comprehensively, and at scale.

Dr. Andy Butler, Dr. Rowhea Elmesky, Dr. Carol Camp-Yeakey, Dr. Jason Jabbari, and Dr. Kelly Harris among award finalists at the William H. Danforth St. Louis Confluence Awards.

The Women’s Society of Washington University presented the Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award and the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarship to three exceptional students at its annual membership meeting, held April 12 in Knight Hall’s Emerson Auditorium.

The No. 3 Washington University in St. Louis women's track and field team won the 2023 UAA Outdoor Championship on Sunday afternoon with 253.50 points. The win marks the Bears' sixth-consecutive title.

Graduate students from a range of departments and programs were selected for their exceptional contributions in the classroom.

The Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.

"Unidos- Doubling the Success in a Bilingual Classroom" will provide support for bilingual students in the classroom and create a family lending library for multilingual families at Marion School in the Ritenour School District.

Doctoral student awarded by The Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yeo-eun Kim who has won the 2022 Paul R. Pintrich Dissertation Award from Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Dr. Cristina Zepeda on her new tenure-track faculty position at Vanderbilt University!

Congratulations to doctoral student Maegan Ruiz for being awarded 1st Place in the ArtSci+DBBS+UCollege category at the 2022 Graduate Research Symposium!

Washington University Olin Fellow and Master of Arts in Teaching student Jalie Moore has been awarded a 2022 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to participate in an intensive Russian language program.

Congratulations to John Harrop for receiving the Manson A. Stewart Teacher Training Award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.

The Department of Education has received a $30,000 Teacher Recruitment and Retention Grant from Missouri’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for the purpose of recruiting male candidates and teacher candidates of color in hard-to-staff content areas such as special education, math, and science.

Kappa Delta Pi's (KDP) grant proposal, "Activating a Multilingual Family Lending Library", has been accepted by the Women's Society of Washington University. It will be funded for the maximum amount of $1,000.

Congratulations to Dr. Cristina Zepeda! Cristina has received a Psychonomic Society and Women in Cognitive Science Networking Award for Junior Scientists.

Congratulations to Education doctoral student Rachel Martin! She was awarded a $1,000 Research Development Grant from the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP).

Congratulations to Education department chair, Dr. Andrew Butler, for receiving an Emerson 2021 Excellence in Teaching Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Purdy as she has been chosen to receive a 2021 Arts & Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award!

The Department of Education congratulates Dr. Chris Rozek on being named a "Rising Star" by the Association for Psychological Science (APS).

Join us in congratulating Dr. Huan Liu for successfully defending her dissertation, entitled "Text Adjuncts and Comprehension with University Level Second Language Readers"!

Congratulations to Janet Frederick for receiving the Beatrice and David Kornblum Endowed Scholarship for the Fall 2020 semester! The purpose of the Kornblum Scholarship is to support graduate students who show exceptional promise in their area of study.

The Washington University board of trustees selected juniors Ruth Durrell (Education and Sociology) and David Leon (Marketing and Organization and Strategic Management) to serve as the undergraduate student representatives to the board for the 2019-2020 school year.

Michelle Purdy, assistant professor of education in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received the 2019 new scholar book award from the history and historiography division of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for her book “Transforming The Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools” (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

Congratulations Huan Liu, PhD student in Applied Linguistics in Education, for being selected by the National Council in the Teaching of Less Commonly Taught Languages for the 2019 research grant

Congratulations Professor Odis Johnson, Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award 2019