To promote and foster an academic community that celebrates and supports diversity in multiple areas of departmental life.

 

• Provide support, networking opportunities and mentoring to students of diverse backgrounds
• Increase and support culturally sensitive research on diversity topics
• Promote the inclusion of diversity throughout our curriculum
• Give students experiential learning opportunities that address diversity issues

• Colloquia/Invited Speakers
• Brown Bag Discussions
• Student/Faculty Receptions
• Graduate Student Professional Development
• Diversity-related Course Development

• Facebook: facebook.com/LoyolaCODA
• Email: CODALoyola@gmail.com

• Psychology Courses Related to Diversity
• Grants and Fellowships to Support Diversity-Related Work
• Department of Psychology Statement on Diversity

• Colleen Conley: understanding the role of gender and sexual orientation in experiences of adaptive and maladaptive adjustment across developmental transitions; developing wellness-promoting interventions that can particularly help academically and socially at-risk youth and emerging adults, including first-generation, low-income, and students of color.
• Perla Gamez: language development; bilingual and second language learning; connection between language and literacy; classroom talk; language input; syntactic priming
• Yael Granot: how people experience and make decisions about justice, including influences of group identity, attention, and development on legal evaluations.
• Grayson Holmbeck: psychosocial adjustment, family relationships, health-related self-management, and the transition to adult health care in youth with spina bifida, the most common disabling birth defect of the central nervous system.
• Jeffrey Huntsinger: the cognitive consequences of affective feelings; how moods and emotions influence stereotyping and prejudice
• Christine P. Li-Grining: self-regulation and academic skills among low-income, ethnic minority
• Robyn Mallett: psychology of prejudice and intergroup relations, investigating how people understand and control the world around them through individual and collective action.
• Maryse Richards: community participatory research on the reduction of exposure to violence and stress through the promotion of resilience in urban, low-income African American and Latinx adolescents
• Catherine DeCarlo Santiago: research focused on how low-income and/or ethnic minority children and families respond to stress and trauma; school- and community-based intervention research among underserved populations.
• Susan Wilson: Understanding how racial/ethnic socialization, racial/ethnic identity, cross-ethnic peer relationships, and psychological adjustment are related.