Travis Wilson
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- Chair of Psychology
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Travis Wilson Receives Distinguished Alumni Award
March 28, 2019
Associate Professor of Psychology Travis Wilson in March received the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Education at the University of Illinois. The five other recipients of the 2019 award were Ann Larson, dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisville; Elegwa Mukulu, professor of entrepreneurship at Jomo Kenyatta University, Republic of Kenya; Patricia Clark, chair of the Department of Elementary Education at Ball State University; Jennifer Dillavou, president of the University of Illinois Alumni Alliance; and Margaret Kobia, cabinet secretary for the Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs, Republic of Kenya.
Travis Wilson Receives 2014 American Educational Research Association Award
November 21, 2014
Assistant Professor of Psychology Travis Wilson is the recipient of the 2014 American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Dissertation Award in the field of Human Development. The award goes to the most outstanding publication in the field of human development stemming from a doctoral dissertation. Wilson’s paper was co-authored by Dr. Philip C. Rodkin (deceased) and was published in the 2013 volume of Child Development, the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development:
Wilson, T.M., & Rodkin, P. C. (2013). Children’s cross-ethnic relations in contemporary elementary schools: Concurrent and prospective associations between ethnic segregation and social status. Child Development, 84, 1081-1097.
Travis Wilson Publishes Article in Journal of Developmental Psychology
November 21, 2014
Assistant Professor of Psychology Travis Wilson has published an article in the journal “Developmental Psychology”:
Wilson, T.M., Rodkin, P. C., & Ryan, A. M. (2014). The company they keep and avoid: Social goal orientation as a predictor of children’s ethnic segregation. Developmental Psychology, 50, 1116-1124.
Travis Wilson Awarded Spencer Foundation Grant
November 21, 2014
Assistant Professor of Psychology Travis Wilson has been awarded a grant of $50,000 from the Spencer Foundation for his project titled, 'A Longitudinal Study of School-based Relationships, Academic Motivation, and School Outcomes among Low-income African-American Youth.' Wilson is examining developmental change and within-group variability among low-income African-American elementary school children in their academic motivation and relationships with peers and teachers at school.
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Seeing Results
November 17, 2014