Kudos: Shi gives talk at Southern Regional Education Board; Doctoral candidate receives dissertation award from SRCD
Shi invited to talk at Southern Regional Education Board’s Commission on Artificial Intelligence in Education
Lehong Shi, an assistant research scientist in the Department of Workforce Education and Instructional Technology, was invited to give a talk at the Southern Regional Education Board’s Commission on Artificial Intelligence in Education on Friday, Oct. 11.
Shi presented her recent research on preparing the future workforce’s AI competencies from a global perspective, with data collected from analyzing 50 country’s national AI strategies. This research offers valuable insights for policymakers on integrating AI into workforce education, providing strategies and actionable steps to develop state-level AI initiatives.
Doctoral candidate receives dissertation award from SRCD
Taehee Kim (M.A. ’23, Ph.D. ’27), a doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Psychology, recently received a Student and Early Career Council Dissertation Research Funding Award from the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).
Established in 2008, SRCD’s funding awards are given to scholars with research proposals that display a strong potential to advance the field of child development. Scholars receive $2,000 to fund their proposed dissertation project.
“I am deeply honored to receive the SRCD’s Student and Early Career Council Dissertation Award,” said Kim, who was one of 10 scholars to receive the award this year. “This award not only validates the importance of my research on social skills, but it also helps me examine how family and school contexts shape these viewpoints.”