Mollie Weeks, PhD student in the Department of Educational Psychology’s school psychology program, recently published her master’s research in the journal, School Mental Health. The study, Discrimination Matters: Relations of Perceived Discrimination to Student Mental Health, indicated that discrimination is associated with a range of mental health difficulties among the more than 60,000 elementary and secondary students in the National Survey of Children’s Health.

Mollie is a DOVE Fellow and doctoral fellow of Project LEEP: Leaders Enhancing Evidence-based Practice, a federally funded project led by Drs. Robin Codding and Amanda Sullivan to prepare school psychology researchers to effectively support K-12 students in urban schools.