Doctoral Students

Nina Ye

Nina Ye is a doctoral student in the Applied Human Development program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She studies how children effectively learn and transmit information, with a focus on the ways children trust and learn from others. This interest extends to how children perceive and understand others’ concealed intentions, […]

Yunee H. Yoon

Yunee H. Yoon is a doctoral student in the Educational Policy Studies program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research explores how career and technical education (CTE) and STEM education affect student educational and labor market outcomes. Before joining BU Wheelock, Yunee worked directly with the governments of Korea, Zambia, […]

Xi “CiCi” Yu

Xi “CiCi” Yu is a doctoral student in Educational Studies/Math & Science Education at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research interests focus on power, identity, and race in US K–12 mathematics classrooms. CiCi is a graduate student researcher on the STEM Cascades project through the Earl Center for Learning & Innovation. […]

Weiqiao Zhang

Weiqiao (Liana) Zhang is a doctoral student in Language & Literacy Education at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Weiqiao’s research interests include academic language development, multilingual communication, and the identity construction of Chinese graduate students in English-dominant academic settings where she focuses on Chinese international students’ capability to leverage multilingual and multicultural […]