All colloquia will take place in Horizon Hall (Room 3008) @ 12:00pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted. Some talks may transition to Zoom, and will be marked below accordingly (see Talk Format below)—check back closer to the talk date for all updates. All members of the GMU community are welcome to attend.
| Date | Presenter (Talk Format) | Affiliation | Title |
| Sep 1 | Charles Barrett (In-Person) | Loudon County Public Schools | Promoting equitable outcomes for students and families: The role of social justice and systems |
| Sep 8 | Laura Winkler (In-Person) | George Mason University | GMU career resources and options for graduate students in psychology |
| Sep 15 | Student Presentations (In-Person) | George Mason University | TBA |
| Sep 22 | Hilah Kaufman |
George Mason University |
The career path of a psychologist in the tech industry |
| Sep 29 |
Peter Sheras |
University of Virginia |
TBA |
| Oct 6 | Helyn Kim | Institute for Education Sciences | Non-academic career(s): Life as an IES program officer |
| Oct 13 | Natalia Palacios | University of Virginia | TBA |
| Oct 20 |
Angel Dunbar |
University of Maryland |
Building resistance against the emotional pain of racism: The strengths of Black parents and children |
| Oct 27 |
Debra Roberts |
Howard University |
Cultural assets as moderators: Implications for child development |
| Nov 3 | Becca Ullrich | Virginia Department of Education |
Child development and early childhood care and education policy |
| Nov 10 | Colleen Vesely | George Mason University |
Using community-based participatory research (CBPR) to understand the experiences of immigrant families |
| Nov 17 | Kelly Fisher | Society for Research in Child Development |
Exploring policy-related career paths and training opportunities |
Spring 2021 (COVID-19)
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| Feb 3 | Koraly Perez-Edgar | Pennsylvania State University | Temperament in context: How the individual and the environment together shape socioemotional trajectories |
| Feb 10 | Kimber Bogard | New York Academy of Medicine | Resident-led research, policy, and power to promote child health and well-being |
| Feb 17 | Frank Worrell |
University of California– Berkeley |
Time perspective and adolescent functioning: Measures and correlates |
| Feb 24 |
Arya Ansari |
The Ohio State University |
The long-term benefits of early childhood education |
| Mar 3 | Christina Cipriano | Yale Child Study Center | SEL for traditionally underserved students and educators |
| Mar 10 | Timothy Klitz | Washington & Jefferson College | A career in academia: From Ph.D. to small college teaching, mentoring, research, and advising |
| Mar 17 |
George DuPaul |
Lehigh University |
Developmental trajectories for young children at-risk for ADHD: Intervention outcomes and academic functioning |
| Mar 24 |
Anne Cash |
University of North Carolina– Charlotte |
Teachers' and coaches' professional vision |
| Apr 14 | Jade Jenkins | University of California– Irvine |
The returns of an additional year of schooling: The case of state-mandated kindergarten |
| Apr 21 | Marc Hernandez | NORC at the University of Chicago |
NORC Early Childhood Research and Practice Collaborative: The Rainin Foundation Collaboration and SEEDS of Learning RCT |
| Apr 28 | Julie Vaisarova | University of Minnesota |
Creativity vs. control? Untangling the contribution of executive function to children's creative thinking |
Fall 2020 (COVID-19)
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| Sep 2 | Samantha Karalus | Fairfax County Public Schools | Evaluation research at FCPS |
| Sep 9 | Steven Holochwost | WolfBrown/John Hopkins University | Risk, self-regulation, and the promise of education |
| Sep 16 | Nancy Adler & Glenn Ann Martin |
Private Practice |
Your mental health: Coping skills, processing COVID-19 crisis and schooling from home |
| Sep 23 |
Jordan Greenburg
Courtney Ricciardi |
Current ADP PhD Students |
Predictors and outcomes of delayed kindergarten entry and early retention Preventing the excellence gap: Early predictors and trajectories of advanced course selection for low-income children of color |
| Sep 30 | Bweikia Steen | George Mason University | Hear our cries: Meeting the needs of African American children during the early years |
| Oct 7 | Laurie Bayet | George Mason University | Faces, objects, and agents: How infants and children understand the visual world |
| Oct 14 | Christine Erdie-Lalena | Wake Forest School of Medicine |
Intersection of prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal Autism research and its clinical application |
| Oct 21 | Holly Matto | George Mason University | The healing power of creative arts on biopsychosocial functioning |
| Oct 28 | Celeste Malone | Howard University | Recognizing and addressing microaggressions for anti-racist psychology practice |
| Nov 4 | Natasha Cabrera | University of Maryland |
Father-child relationships and children's development in early childhood |
| Nov 11 | Toya Frank | George Mason University |
Examining the trajectories of Black mathematics teachers |
| Nov 18 | Fantasy Lozada | Virginia Commonwealth University |
A theory of biculturalism and emotion regulatory flexibility among African American adolescents |
Spring 2020 (COVID-19)
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| Jan 29 | Benjamin Converse | University of Virginia | Overlooking subtractive improvements |
| Feb 5 | Allison Jack | George Mason University | Sex differences in the social brain: Insights from autism |
| Feb 12 | Jatin Ambegaonkar |
George Mason University |
Arts for health, health for artists across the lifespan |
| Feb 19 | Melanie Killen | University of Maryland | The origins of morality: Developing a society of equals |
| Mar 4 | Olga Kornienko | George Mason University | Benefits of intergroup connections: Understanding how peer networks shape academic and socio-emotional development of diverse youth |
| Apr 1 | Ian Lyons | Georgetown |
The curious case of quantity: Evolution, culture, and short-term memory |
Fall 2019
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| Sep 4 | Gerald Clore | University of Virginia | The emotion-cognition connection: The impact of affect depends on its object |
| Sep 11 | Amanda P. Williford | University of Virginia | Supporting Children’s School Readiness through Teacher-Child Relationships and Statewide Assessment Systems |
| Sep 18 | Manica Ramos |
Child Trends |
Working at a non-profit research organization – Child Trends |
| Sep 25 | Peter Leone | University of Maryland | Research, Scholarship, and Social Justice: Promoting Equity for Marginalized Groups |
| Oct 2 | Ellen Serafini | George Mason University | Differential predictability and dynamicity of individual differences in second language learning |
| Oct 9 | Kathleen Moritz Rudasill | Virginia Commonwealth University | Temperament-based interventions in schools |
| Oct 16 | Yulia Chentsova | Georgetown | Cultural shaping of emotional functioning |
| Oct 23 | Sabine Doebel | George Mason University | Preregistering your psychological research, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love preregistration |
| Oct 30 | Kostadin Kushlev | Georgetown |
The social price of constant connectivity: Smartphones impose subtle costs on well-being |
| Nov 6 | Chelsea Derlan Williams | Virginia Commonwealth University | A developmental approach to ethnic-racial socialization and ethnic-racial identity |
| Nov 13 | Jessica Connelly | University of Virginia | Early nurture epigenetically tunes the oxytocin receptor |
| Nov 20 | Susan Lapham | American Institute for Research |
Project Talent: A short history of a very long study |