A new interdisciplinary fellowship program launched by the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI) will train graduate students in state-of-the-art quantitative methods, allowing them to examine the impact of educational policies, programs, and practices. “This is a...

Nicole McNeil, Notre Dame's ACE Associate Professor of Psychology--along with her colleagues at the nonprofit research agency West Ed--received a $3.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), which aims to improve students' mathematical achievement...

How can Catholic schools retain more of their recently enrolled Latino student populations? Are statewide voucher programs changing the public schools from which students depart? What are students most likely to remember from a teacher’s presentation? These were some of the research questions to...

Nicole McNeil , a Notre Dame psychology professor and fellow in the Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI), has been awarded two federal grants for her research into children’s ability to understand key mathematical concepts. The first grant, a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF)...

Nicole M. McNeil, assistant professor of psychology and a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame, has been named one of the 67 recipients of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). She and other PECASE recipients were...