Paulin, Red

Red Paulin is a doctoral student in the Quantitative Methods area within the Department of Educational Psychology, working with Dr. David Kaplan.

Quintana, Robby

Robby Quintana is a doctoral student in the Human Development area within the Department of Educational Psychology. He is working in the Mathematics Education and Learning Lab with Percival Matthews. Robby is interested in the relationship between spatial ability and mathematics.

Ramos, Anabell

Anabell Ramos is a doctoral student in the School Psychology area within the Department of Educational Psychology. She earned her BA in Psychology and Human Development from California State University, San Bernardino and conducted research through the Undergraduate Research Initiative for Student Enhancement (NIH-Funded). Her research is focused on the application of behavioral analytic interventions in school settings, with an emphasis on adapting these interventions to ensure cultural appropriateness for students who are culturally and linguistically diverse. She is passionate about delivering culturally sensitive and congruent services to Latine students and aims to elevate the voices of both students and families.

Redondo, Sofia

Sofia Redondo is a doctoral student in the School Psychology area within the Department of Educational Psychology.

Reece, Ashley

Ashley Reece (Ezpeleta) is a doctoral student in the Human Development area working with Dr. Haley Vlach in the Learning, Cognition, and Development Lab. She received her B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Linguistics from Miami University. She was also the lab manager for Dr. Ed Hubbard’s Educational Neuroscience Lab before joining the PhD program. Ashley’s work investigates how lower (e.g. biological)- and higher (e.g. meta)- memory processes influence young children’s language learning, with the goal of applying her work to educational settings.

Rysiew, Joshua

Josh Rysiew is a doctoral student in the School Psychology area within the Department of Educational Psychology. He is advised by Dr. Steve Kilgus. Josh received his BS in Psychology from the University of Georgia. Prior to graduate school, Josh worked in the Gifted Education Equity Research lab, where he focused on testing an equity measurement tool for school districts to examine their gifted enrollment data. His research interests center on assessing internalizing concerns for high-achieving students of color and promoting equitable identification practices in gifted and talented programs.

Stevens, Isaiah

Isaiah Stevens is a doctoral student in the Human Development area within the Department of Educational Psychology. He is interested in the way that students conceptualize mathematics problems. He is a member of the Mathematics Education Learning and Development (MELD) lab with Dr. Percival Matthews. He involves himself in the postsecondary mathematics community through educational opportunities in the mathematics department at UW-Madison. In his free time, he plays basketball, does landscape photography, and cooks for his family.

Tan, Yuanru

Yuanru Tan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Learning Sciences program within the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She works in the Epistemic Analytics Lab advised by Dr. David Williamson Shaffer. Her research focuses on developing novel approaches and statistical tools to model and assess complex thinking.

Tong, Yi

Yi Tong is a doctoral student in the Human Development area within the Department of Educational Psychology. She is a member of the Learning, Cognition, and Development lab with Dr. Haley Vlach.

Veenendall, Anna

Anna Veenendall is a doctoral student in the Human Development area within the Department of Educational Psychology. She works with Dr. Christy Starr. She earned her BS in Neurobiology and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also worked as a research assistant in Dr. Judith Harackiewicz’s PULSE lab. Before starting her graduate studies, Anna served as a research specialist under Dr. Andy Garbacz in School Psychology at UW. Her research interests center on the barriers and costs that adolescents and college students face in pursuing careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.