Current Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
Linlin Luo
Postdoctoral Fellow
Degree: Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (specialization in Cognition, Learning, and Development)
Email: linlin.luo@tamu.edu
Research Interests
- Self-regulated learning
- Teaching and learning strategies
- Mentoring in STEM education
- Talent development and creativity
Career Goals
- Tenure-track faculty position
- Developing a line of research and intervention programs that integrates self-regulated learning with academic/talent mentoring to foster student mentees’ self-regulated learning as well as the co-regulation of mentors and mentees
Personal Interests
- Hiking, travel, cooking, language learning, and reading
Graduate Students
Zoey Du
Ph.D. Student in Educational Psychology (Research, Measurement & Statistics)
Email: zoey.du@tamu.edu
Research Interests
- Experimental design
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Multilevel modeling
- Interest development theories
Career Goal
Tenure track faculty
Personal Interests
Climbing, hiking, reading
Qiyue Zhang
Ph.D. Student in Educational Psychology (Research, Measurement & Statistics)
Email: qiyue.zhang@tamu.edu
Research Interests
- Experimental design
- Structural Equation Modeling
- Motivation in STEM education
- Mentoring relationship
- Chemistry education
Career Goal
Tenure track position
Personal Interests
Music, painting
Weiqi (Connie) Guo
Ph.D. Student in Educational Psychology (Bilingual/ESL Education)
Email: connie.guo@tamu.edu
Research Interests
- Second and foreign language acquisition
- Pragmatics teaching and learning
- Bilingual development
Career Goal
To teach in a college-level institution
Personal Interests
Gardening, Crafting
Blaine Pedersen
Ph.D. Student in Educational Psychology (Research, Measurement & Statistics)
Email: blaine.pedersen@tamu.edu
Research Interests
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Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling
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Measurement Invariance
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Broadening the participation of historically underrepresented students in STEM
Career Goal
Personal Interests
Cooking, hiking, and reading
Rachelle Pedersen
Ph.D. Student in Curriculum & Instruction
Email: pedersenr@tamu.edu
Research Interests
- Broadening participation in STEM
- Program and curriculum development to support/recruit/retain women in engineering
Career Goal
Tenure track position at a research university
Personal Interests
Crafting, cooking, board games, music
Moriah Boynton
Ph.D. Student in School Psychology
Email: mboynto1@tamu.edu
Research Interests
- Creativity and gifted education
- Motivation
- Minority students and mental health
Career Goal
Working in the schools as a Licensed School Psychology.
Personal Interests
Music, tennis, spending time with friends and family
Fanyi Yu
Ph.D. Student in Educational Psychology (Developmental Science)
Email: fanyi0622@tamu.edu
Research Interests
- Career Identity development
- Emotions and motivation in learning
- Underrepresented groups in STEM
Career Goal
becoming a researcher in an education-related field.
Personal Interests
Cats and dogs, music, badminton, swimming, movies
Undergraduate Students
Carla Reyes Ortiz
Undergraduate Student in Biomedical Sciences
Email: reyescar_3@tamu.edu
Research Interests
- Health Disparities between genders
- Underrepresented students in STEM
- Neurodivergence in K-12 Students
Career Goal
- Medical School and Neuroscience Research
Personal Interests
Road cycling, cooking and music
Elira Martin
Undergraduate Student in Neuroscience
Email: emmart@tamu.edu
Research Interests
- Neurodivergence in the public education system
- The effects of psychiatric medications in children
- The misdiagnoses of mental health problems in women/minorities
Career Goal
- Child Psychiatrist and Researcher
Personal Interests
Reading, dancing, traveling, and movies
Samiksha Sriramla
Undergraduate Student in Public Health
Email: samiksha.sriramla@tamu.edu
Research Interests
- Healthcare disparities in differing socioeconomic areas
- Developmental Toxicology
- Prenatal & maternal health
Career Goal
Physician Assistant
Personal Interests
Baking, Music, Playing the piano
Samara Shafley
Undergraduate Student in Psychology
Email: srshafley@tamu.edu
Research Interests
- Underrepresented groups in STEM fields
- Anxiety’s effects on athletic performance
Career Goal
- Counseling Psychologist or Sports Psychologist
Personal Interests
Horseback riding, animals, music, and baking
Noreen Ezzat
Undergraduate Student in Psychology with a minor in Health
Research Interests
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mental health of STEM student
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health disparities in minorities
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women’s education achievement gaps
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the psychology of happiness
Career Goal
Personal Interests
Shopping, listening to music, dancing, crafting, and painting
Bonnie Ho
Undergraduate Student in Economics
Email: bonnie.ho@tamu.edu
Research Interests
- the psychology of motivation
- underrepresented students
- human behavior impacting markets
Career Goal
financial risk analyst
Personal Interests
reading, baking
Natalia Juarez
Undergraduate Student in Mathematics
Email: nataliajuarez@tamu.edu
Research Interests
- Underrepresented groups in STEM
- Postsecondary success among Latinx
Career Goal
Personal Interests
Cooking, sewing, and music