Psych foundations Ph.D. students receive high honors

Purav Patel, Ph.D. student in Department of Educational Psychology’s psychological foundations of education program, has been admitted to the LearnLab Summer School at Carnegie Mellon University. This is an intensive 1-week experience where he will design technology-enhanced learning experiments and build intelligent tutoring systems. He is the third student from the psychological foundations program to participate in this experience. Past participants were Jeremy Wang, Ph.D. student, and Erik Anderson, master’s student.

Martin VanBoekel, Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology’s psychological foundations of education program, has been awarded a 2015-2016 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship by the Graduate School. This highly selective award is given to doctoral candidates of particular promise.