Faculty, postdoc and students honored at this year’s AERA annual meeting
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By Carol Jean Tomoguchi-Perez
May 3, 2024 Along with a strong representation at the 2024 American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, one of the world’s largest gatherings of educational researchers, several members of the UC Irvine School of Education community were honored by the association. Professor and Senior Associate Dean Young-Suk Kim was named an AERA Fellow for her contributions to and excellence in education research. Kim and the 2024 cohort of fellows were honored in an induction ceremony which took place at the conference on April 12. Read more about Kim’s recognition here. |
Jacqueline Pham
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Associate Professor Jade Jenkins and Assistant Professor Adriana Villavicencio were selected as Outstanding Researchers of 2023, by AERA and the journals AERA Open and Review of Educational Research, respectively. Jenkins and Villavicencio were recognized for their service at the Publications Reception which was held during the conference.
Villavicencio, along with doctoral students Dana Conlin and Jomar Lopes received the Best Annual Meeting Paper Award from the Organizational Theory Special Interest Group (SIG) for their paper "Systems Work: Processes of Institutionalizing Racial Justice in One New York City High School."
This award recognizes academic and intellectual excellence towards enhancing theoretical developments in the field, and the team was recognized during the SIG annual business meeting held during the conference.
Katherine Arias Garcia, a Chancellor's Advance Postdoctoral Fellow, received the AERA Latina/o/x SIG Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her accomplishment was announced at the SIG annual business meeting during the AERA conference.
Jacqueline Pham, a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in Public Health Sciences and minoring in Education, received an AERA undergraduate research fellowship. She was selected to present research at the AERA annual conference, and presented on the following topic: Recognizing what was already there; The affordances of analytically scoring multilingual student writing.
Villavicencio, along with doctoral students Dana Conlin and Jomar Lopes received the Best Annual Meeting Paper Award from the Organizational Theory Special Interest Group (SIG) for their paper "Systems Work: Processes of Institutionalizing Racial Justice in One New York City High School."
This award recognizes academic and intellectual excellence towards enhancing theoretical developments in the field, and the team was recognized during the SIG annual business meeting held during the conference.
Katherine Arias Garcia, a Chancellor's Advance Postdoctoral Fellow, received the AERA Latina/o/x SIG Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her accomplishment was announced at the SIG annual business meeting during the AERA conference.
Jacqueline Pham, a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in Public Health Sciences and minoring in Education, received an AERA undergraduate research fellowship. She was selected to present research at the AERA annual conference, and presented on the following topic: Recognizing what was already there; The affordances of analytically scoring multilingual student writing.
