All colloquia will take place in Horizon Hall (Room 3008) @ 12:00pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted. All members of the GMU community are welcome to attend.
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| Sep 1 | Charles Barrett | Loudon County Public Schools | Promoting equitable outcomes for students and families: The role of social justice and systems |
| Sep 8 | Laura Winkler | George Mason University | GMU career resources and options for graduate students in psychology |
| Sep 15 | Student Presentations | 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 |
Bullying: What can we do and who can do it? |
| Oct 6 |
*TALK CANCELED* Helyn Kim |
Institute for Education Sciences | Non-academic career(s): Life as an IES program officer |
| Oct 13 | Natalia Palacios | University of Virginia | Engaging families through home visiting: A culturally informed approach |
| 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 |
Adam Winsler & Alenamie Alegrado |
George Mason University |
Music and academic performance: Does music make kids smarter or do smart kids select into music? Insights from the Miami School Readiness Project |
| 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 training opportunities and career paths |
| Dec 1 | Becca Ullrich | Virginia Department of Education |
Child development and early childhood care and education policy |
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 |