Living Laboratory at the Museum of Science Summer 2024 / Living Laboratory del Museo de la Ciencia de Boston Verano 2024
🌞This summer, we had the amazing opportunity to team up with the Living Laboratory at the Museum of Science!🔬 We connected with kids through fun and interactive language games designed to spark their curiosity about word learning and on how we build connections between the words we know.✨🧐 It was a pleasure to share our […]
NC A&T State University-Summer Internship 2024 – Derron McQuitty
During this past summer, we welcomed Derron McQuitty to the Bilingual Learning Lab. Derron is one of two students who spent 10 weeks during the summer at Boston University as part of the NC A&T State University-Summer Internship 2024. This internship aimed to provide opportunities for students to gain research experience and receive faculty mentorship. […]
2024 BU Women’s Guild Scholarship
We want to congratulate Zoe Devine for being one of only 55 graduate students to receive a 2024 BU Women’s Guild Scholarship. These scholarships are awarded to women and those who identify as female in Boston University graduate programs, as well as to BU women writers. Since 1977, the BUWG has distributed over $800,000 in […]
Junior Faculty Fellows Program Award
Dr. Crespo has been selected as one of eight faculty members to be part of the 2024 Junior Faculty Fellows of the Boston University Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering! The Junior Faculty Fellows Program recognizes outstanding early-career computing and data-driven researchers at Boston University. The program brings together a […]
Spring 2024 End of Semester Meeting!
✨ Wrapping up the Spring 2024 Semester ! ✨ Here’s a recap of the highlights: 👥 Our dedicated team of students came together to reflect on our accomplishments over the past year. From innovative experiments to insightful analyses, we’ve made significant progress in launching our studies examining how children with different language abilities and language […]
Center for Career Development’s Code-Switching & the Workplace
We also wanted to give a big shoutout to Malvika who was recently invited to form part of the panel at the Center for Career Development’s Code-Switching & the Workplace event. This event delved into the challenges faced by BIPOC professionals and offered strategies for achieving authenticity and belonging in the workplace. You can […]
April’s Research in Progress Meeting
We want to thank Boston University’s Wheelock College Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being for inviting Dr. Kimberly Crespo to their April Research in Progress Meeting. It was a privilege to form part of such an inspired conversation. Research in Progress aims to bring together BU faculty and graduate students and community partners to […]
Successful Master’s Thesis Defense – Gabby Rushi
We wanted to congratulate Gabby for successfully defending her Master’s Thesis! We are incredibly proud of your work. We also wanted to extend our gratitude to Gabby’s committee, Boston University’s Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, and all the families who participated in the study for making this possible. Congratulations, Gabby!!
UROP 2024 Spring Research Recipient!
We are thrilled to share that Paulina Villanueva Salcedo has received funding from Boston University’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), which supports undergraduates conducting research projects under faculty mentorship. Under the direction of Dr. Crespo, Paulina will conduct a study to examine how exposure to multiple speakers and bilingual language experience influences children’s productions of […]
Boston University’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Presentation!
Congratulations to Renzo on his successful Summer UROP Presentation. Over the summer, Renzo researched the effects of bilingualism and input variability in children’s word-learning. Huge shoutout to everyone who made this possible, especially Dr. Crespo for her guidance, and UROP for providing the funding. We are incredibly proud of your work, Renzo!🎉