Lab News
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April 2021 – Congrats to Jaki Yi for being awarded the Scheiderer Award for her contribution to scholarship with her paper titled “Internalized model minority myth among Asian Americans: Links to anti-Black attitudes and opposition to affirmative action”!
- April 2021 – Congrats to Semira Abera for being awarded the undergraduate Community Action Award, way to go!
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March 2021 – Emily Blevins passed her preliminary exam. The Todd lab was excited to celebrate this important milestone!
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March 2021 – Congrats to Jaki Yi for being on the teachers ranked as excellent list for Fall 2020!
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March 2021 – Congrats to Dr. Todd on being named a Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) Fellow!
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February 2021 – Congrats to Emily Blevins for being selected as a recipient of the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. This is the final stage of the campus-wide award for Graduate Teaching Assistants during the 2020-2021 academic year!
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February 2021 – Congrats to Rewo Oshe for being accepted into the clinical-community doctoral program at Georgia State University!
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February 2021 – Congrats to Brett Boeh Bergmann for matching at Sharp Healthcare in San Diego for the 2021-2022 clinical internship year!
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February 2021 – Congrats to Emily Blevins for being awarded the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants!
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February 2021 – Congrats to Jaki Yi who had a paper titled “Internalized model minority myth among Asian Americans: Links to anti-Black attitudes and opposition to affirmative action” accepted for publication at the journal Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
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February 2021 – Congrats to Jaki Yi who had a paper titled “Race, campus climate, and social change behaviors for Asian American college students” accepted for publication at the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education!
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January 2021 – Congrats to Dr. Todd on being asked to serve as an associate editor at the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP)!
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January 2021 – Congrats to Emily Blevins for being selected as this year’s recipient of the Psychology Departmental Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by a Graduate Teaching Assistant!
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October 2020 – Congrats to Emily Blevins for being on the teachers ranked as excellent list for Spring 2020!
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July 2020 – Emily Blevins deposited her master’s thesis titled: Remembering where we’re from: Community and individual predictors of college students’ White privilege awareness. The Todd lab was excited to celebrate this important milestone!
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May 2020 – Jaki Yi passed her preliminary exam. The Todd lab was excited to celebrate this important milestone!
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May 2020 – Our work on social change behaviors among Asian American college students has been accepted by the Asian American Journal of Psychology. Congrats to Jaki Yi and Nathan Todd!
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May 2020 – Congrats to our Todd Lab graduates! Our research assistants, Alejandro Villalobos and Jay Niebrugge earned their bachelors’ in science. Additionally, Alejandro Villalobos completed his undergraduate honors thesis which was awarded distinction at the spring graduation ceremonies. Congrats to all!
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May 2020 – Congrats to Brett Boeh Bergmann for being awarded the Herman Eisen Award for her dedication to providing clinical services to the community!
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April 2020 – Congrats to our undergraduate research assistants, Grace Bai, Makaila Lozano, and Anna Wruck, who received the 2020 RISE Research Award at APS!
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April2020 – Our article on avoiding race and denying racism was published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology. Congrats to Yara Mekawi, Nathan Todd, and Emily Blevins!
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April 2020 – Congrats to our undergraduate research assistants, Grace Bai, Jay Niebrugge, Makaila Lozano, and Anna Wruck for presenting their research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium!
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March 2020 – Congrats to Jaki Yi who received the Jeffery S. Tanaka Asian American Studies Grant for her dissertation study, which is a qualitative investigation among Asian American college students!
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February 2020 – Our article on Christian and political conservatism predicting opposition to sexual and gender minority rights published in the American Journal of Community Psychology.
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December 2019 – Our work on racial colorblindness and confidence in and likelihood of action to reduce prejudice has been published in the American Journal of Community Psychology. Congrats to Jaki Yi, Nathan Todd, and Yara Mekawi!
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December 2019 – Brett Boeh Bergmann passed her preliminary exam. The Todd lab was excited to celebrate this important milestone!
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October 2019 – Congratulations to Jaki Yi for receiving a poster award for her presentation at the Asian American Psychological Association Annual Convention!
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September 2019 – Emily Blevins and Jaki Yi completed their qualifying exams. The Todd lab was excited to celebrate this important milestone!
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August 2019 – Amanda Gold has joined the Todd Lab! We are excited to welcome her as she starts her doctoral studies.
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July 2019 – The Todd lab was excited to attend and present at the 2019 Biennial Society for Research and Community Action (SCRA) conference. Way to go on everyone’s presentations!
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July 2019 – Our work on spiritual support in religious congregations has been published in the American Journal of Community Psychology. Congrats to Nathan Todd, Emily Blevins, and Jaki Yi!
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July 2019 – Our work on religious and spiritual predictors of poverty attributions has been published in Social Justice Research. Congrats to Brett Boeh Bergmann and Nathan Todd!
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April 2019 – Congratulations to Emily Blevins for completing her ethics qualifying exam!
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April 2019 – Brett Boeh Bergmann gave an invited talk to the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) about data collected investigating the organization’s diversity and inclusion climate. Many thanks to ADEC for the kind invitation!
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March 2019 – Brett Boeh Bergmann gave an invited talk to the providers at Carle Hospital about the role of psychology in palliative care settings. Many thanks to for the kind invitation!
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October 2018 – Emily Blevins and other community psychology students in our program facilitated a workshop on writing for non-academic audiences at the Midwest ECO conference in Chicago!
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September 2018 – Our work on the validation of a racial microaggressions scale has been published in Cultural Diversity and ethnic Minority Psychology. Congrats to Yara Mekawi and Nathan Todd!
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August 2018 – Congrats to Nathan Todd who was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign!
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August 2018 – Jaki Yi and Emily Blevins presented their work at the American Psychological Association’s annual conference in San Francisco. Congratulations to Jaki for earning a poster award from the Society for Community Research and Action!
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May 2018 – Congrats to Yara Mekawi for completing her doctoral studies at the University of Illinois and to Brett Boeh Bergmann for completing her Master’s thesis. We enjoyed celebrating you this graduation weekend!
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May 2018 – We’ve been hard at work coding several qualitative research projects this year! Brett Boeh Bergmann, Jaki Yi, and Emily Blevins all presented their research at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry this month. Congratulations!
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April 2018 – Brett Boeh Bergmann gave an outstanding presentation at the Association for Death Education and Counseling Conference this April. Congrats!
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April 2018 – Congrats to Nathan Todd who is the recipient of the Dr. T. W. Adams Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award from the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences!
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March 2018 – Congrats to Nathan Todd who is the recipient of the Early Career Award for the Society for Community Research and Action (APA Division 27)!
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February 2018 – Congrats to Brett Boeh Bergmann for being awarded the ARC of Illinois Volunteer Award for her service and engagement with the council on developmental disabilities!
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December 2017 – Brett Boeh Bergmann completed her qualifying exams. The Todd lab was excited to celebrate this important milestone!
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September 2017 – For the second semester in a row, Brett Boeh was included on the List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students and received a special designation for being in the top 10% of instructors! Nice job, Brett!
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July 2017 – Emily Blevins received a scholarship to attend a training on health disparities research at the University of Michigan’s Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) this summer. Congratulations!
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July 2017 – The Todd lab was excited to attend and present at the 2019 Biennial Society for Research and Community Action (SCRA) conference. Way to go on everyone’s presentations!
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March 2017 – Congrats to Brett Boeh for being named as an honorable mention for this year’s Ford Fellowship award cycle!
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October 2017 – Congrats to Brett Boeh for passing her ethics qualifying exam!
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August 2017 – A warm welcome to Emily Blevins and Jaki Yi as they start their doctoral studies in the Todd lab at the University of Illinois!
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May 2016 – Dr. Nathan Todd was recognized for his outstanding commitment to teaching with the Mabel Kirkpatrick Hohenboken Teaching Award! Congratulations, Dr. Todd!
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August 2015 – Congrats to Brett Boeh for being awarded the Outstanding Research Award for Interdisciplinary Research by the Summer Pre-doctoral Institute at the University of Illinois!
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July 2015 – A warm welcome to Brett Boeh as she starts doctoral studies in the Todd lab at the University of Illinois!