News and Upcoming Events

Congratulations to Rachelle Pedersen to be awarded the Excellence in Research Special Award, Graduate Student Oral Presentation, Vice President for Research – Texas A&M ($1,000)! Date: March 25, 2023

Congratulations to Joe Tise to have an abstract accepted for AERA 2023 Annual Meeting! Date: January 30, 2023

Congratulations to Zoey Du and Rachelle Pedersen to have an abstract accepted for APA 2022 Annual Conference! Date: March 25, 2022

Congratulations to Katherine (Katie) Fletcher to publish her first article! Read the article and learn more. Date: May 5, 2021

Congratulations to Juliet Nyanamba to have an abstract accepted for APA 2021 Annual Virtual Conference! Date: May 5, 2021

Congratulations to Rachelle Pedersen to have a manuscript submitted for publication! Date: May 5, 2021

Congratulations to Nyima Sanneh to be awarded a fellowship to be a part of the Patti Grace Smith Inaugural class of 2021, and an internship with Hawkeye 360! Date: May 5, 2021

Past Events

AERA presentations

Chicago, April 13-16, 2023

Pedersen, R.M., Hernandez, P.R., Woodcock, A., & Schultz, P.W. (2023). My Mentors are Like Me: Perceived Similarity Predicts Relational Satisfaction within Mentor Networks. Submitted to the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.

Pedersen, R.M., Patterson, M., Thomas, S., & Hernandez, P.R. (2023). Peer Access Supports Community Values: A Social Network Analysis of Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduates. Submitted to the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.

Tise, J.C., Hernandez, P. R., & Schultz, P. W. (2023, April 13-17). Mentoring for Success: Self-Regulated Learning Strategies Use Links Mentor Support and Educational Attainment. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States.

Du, Z., Zhang Q., Hernandez, P.R., Abda, T., Juarez, N., Patterson, M., Handelsman, J., Broderick, N., Miller, S., Estrada, M., Young, G., Sandoval, P., Aldana C.C. Maldonado, N. (April 2023). Improving Instructor-Student Relationship Quality through Social Inclusion Intervention in Biomedical Sciences. [Poster presentation]. American Educational Research Association 2023 convention, Chicago, IL, United States.

Nyanamba, J. M., Yu, F., Hernandez, P. R., Anderson, B., DeerInWater, K., Estrada, M., Hosoda, K., Maldonado, N., Smith, T., & Flores, L. (2023, April). Motivating Native Americans in STEM: Belonging Mediates the Impact of Goal Affordance and Congruity. Paper presentation at the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, United States.

Student Research Week presentations
College Station, March 20-24, 2023

Azali K., Martin E., Zhang, Q., Tise J. C., Boynton M., & Hernandez, P. R. (2023, March 20–24). The Effect of Mentors on First-Generation Students’ Motivation in STEM [Poster Presentation]. Texas A&M University Student Research Week, College Station, TX, United States. https://srw.tamu.edu/

Pedersen, R.M., Hernandez, P.R., Woodcock, A., & Schultz, P.W. (2023). My Mentors are Like Me: Perceived Similarity Predicts Relational Satisfaction within Mentor Networks. Student Research Week, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States. https://srw.tamu.edu/

Abad, T.M., *Ho, B., *Juarez, N., *Sapia J., Du, W., Lee H. & Hernandez, P. R. (March 2023). Influence of student-instructor similarity on biomedical students’ persistence and life satisfaction: The mediating role of student self-efficacy. [Poster Presentation]. Texas A&M University Student Research Week 2023. College Station, TX, United States. https://srw.tamu.edu/

Lam, K. H., Juarez, N., Arredondo, S., Panjala, R, Guo, W., & Hernandez, P. R. (2023, March). Understanding the STEM pipeline: Competing risk analysis on the likelihood of changing within STEM versus leaving STEM. [Poster Presentation]. Texas A&M University Student Research Week, College Station, TX, United States. https://srw.tamu.edu/