ICD PhD student highlights: Spring/Summer 2023

Awards

Jasmine Banegas and Mirinda Morency were awarded the NIMH’s T32 Predoctoral Training Fellowship for 2023-24.

Erika DeAngelis was awarded the CEHD Seashore Graduate Fellowship for the 2023-24 academic year.

Emily Padrutt was a recipient of the 2023 American Psychological Association of Graduate Students Psychological Science Research Grant (PSRG).

Padrutt also received the 2023-24 Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain Predoctoral Fellowship in Developmental Science.  

Recent presentations

Ekom Eyoh presented her first-author poster “Deriving subgroups based on school age outcomes in children with an increased familial likelihood for developing ASD” at the International Society for Autism Research’s Annual Meeting in May in Stockholm, Sweden.

Other posters presented at the International Society for Autism Research’s Annual Meeting include:

Koirala, S., Burrows, C. A., Eyoh, E. E., Elison, J. T. (2023, May 3-6). Examining the measurement properties of Social Responsiveness Scale in a convenience community sample of preschool-aged children [Poster presentation]. International Society for Autism Research 2023 Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden.

Margolis, R. N., Pelech, L.,  Eyoh, E. E., Burrows, C. A., Lee, C. M., Garic, D.,  Piven, J., Hazlett, H., Schultz, R. T., Botteron, K., Dager, S. R., Estes, A. M., Zwaigenbaum, L., Pandey, J., St. John, T., & Swanson, M. (2023, May 3-6). Autistic children have elevated clinical symptoms when compared to non-autistic peers. [Poster presentation]. International Society for Autism Research 2023 Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden.

Zoltowski, A. R., Convery, C. A., Eyoh, E. E., Quinde-Zlibut, J. M., Keceli-Kaysili, B., Lewis, B., Cascio, C. J. (2023, May 3-6). Putting the self in context: A preliminary study of interoceptive-exteroceptive integration on autistic and neurotypical individuals [Poster Presentation]. International Society for Autism Research 2023 Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden.

ICD doctoral candidate Sarah Gillespie and ICD doctoral student Mirinda Morency presented a talk at CEHD’s Leading in Equity, Action, and Diversity for PreK-12 System Improvement Annual Conference. Their interactive dialogue titled “What do the students and the science say about ethnic studies?” included ICD research fellow Elizabeth Fajemirokun and Minneapolis Public Schools Assistant Principal Lisa Purcell.

Sophia Magro presented the following symposiums at the American Educational Research Association’s 2023 Annual Meeting:

Magro, S., Mondi-Rago, C., Rihal, T., & Carlson, E. (2023, April 16). Predicting expulsions from Minnesota early care and education sites: Site and provider characteristics. In C. A. Wiltshire (Chair), Policies and practices impacting children [Symposium]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, United States.

Magro, S., DeJoseph, M., & Roisman, G. (2023, April 15). Using MNLFA to test and adjust for measurement noninvariance in the Student-Teacher Relationship Scale. In J. Mee (Chair), Measurement invariance [Symposium]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, United States.

Recent publications

Sophia Magro had the following papers published:

Mondi, C. F., Magro, S. W., Rihal, T. K., & Carlson, E. A. (2023). Emotional burnout and perceptions of child behavior among childcare professionals. Early Childhood Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-023-01518-3

Magro, S. W., VanMeter, F., & Roisman, G. I. (2023). Attachment, regulation, and the development of coping. In E. A. Skinner & M. J. Zimmer-Gembeck (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Development of Coping (pp. 79-108). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108917230

Kroupina, M., Dahl, C. M., Magro, S. W., Stuppy, J. J., & Georgieff, M. K. (2023). A complex case with Axis I co-morbidity: Leah, 2 years old. In K. Mulrooney, M. Keren, & J. D. Osofsky (Eds.), DC:0-5 Casebook (pp. 255-272). ZERO TO THREE.

Emily Padrutt had the following papers published:

Padrutt, E. R., DeJoseph, M., Wilson, S., & Berry, D. (in press). Measurement invariance of maternal depressive symptoms across the first two years since birth and across racial group, education, income, primiparity, and age. Psychological Assessment.

Padrutt, E. R., Harper, J., Schaefer, J., Nelson, K., McGue, M., Iacono, W. G., & Wilson, S. (2023). Pubertal timing and adolescent outcomes: Investigating explanations for associations with a genetically informed design. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64, 1101-1259. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13808