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HUI-HUA PAI
Hometown/Country: Taiwan
Research Interests: Transfer of learning, Motivation, Technology integration
E-mail: hpai@purdue.edu
Faculty Adviser: David Sears

"I like the mentorship and support from my adviser and other professors in our program."

MAURICIO A HERRON
Hometown/Country: Colombia
Research Interests: Teachers' and preservice teachers' personal epistemologies;
conceptions about teaching and learning; teacher education on STEM fields; science education
E-mail: mherrong@purdue.edu
Faculty Adviser: Ala Samarapungavan

KRISTA YOUNG
Research Interests: Teacher-student relationships, social-emotional development in school
settings, education of "at-risk" students
E-mail: young103@purdue.edu
Faculty Adviser: Youli Mantzicopoulos

"The guidance and opportunities given by my department are extremely helpful. The faculty and students are very friendly, and I appreciate the supportive atmosphere."

NINGER ZHOU 
Hometown/Country: Chengdu, China 
Research Interests: Child Development, Second Language Acquisition, Multimedia Integration in Learning 
E-mail: zhoun@purdue.edu
Faculty Adviser: Aman Yadav

Ninger is investigating the effects of multimedia storybook reading on English Language Learners’ vocabulary learning for her PhD thesis. She aims to study the factors that influence the efficiency of storybook reading. She is interested in how ELL children can benefit from multimedia story reading, and how multimedia integration can enrich the learning environment for ELLs. Her research also involves exploring issues in pre-service teacher education. She has been working with her advisor, Dr. Yadav on the CS4EDU project, assisting with the integration of modules on computational thinking into an education courses and the design of a new methods course for pre-service computer science teachers, which is being developed as part of a new computer science supplemental licensure program.

SILVIA PEREA 
Hometown/Country: Costa Rica 
Research Interests: Teacher-student relationships, motivation 
E-mail: sperea@purdue.edu
Faculty Adviser: Youli Mantzicopoulos

INOK AHN 
Hometown/Country: South Korea
Research Interests: Motivation, Academic engagement, Adaptive classroom environments
E-mail: jahn@purdue.edu
Faculty Adviser: Helen Patrick

"The guidance and opportunities given by my department are extremely helpful. The faculty and students are very friendly, and I appreciate the supportive atmosphere."

JAMISON WILLS 
Research Interests: Thinking and reasoning, Epistemic cognition, Inquiry 
E-mail: willsj@purdue.edu
Faculty Adviser: Ala Samarapungavan