2009 - 2010 Academic Year Fellows
Lauren Applebaum
Lauren is a Senior Evaluator at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. In this position, Lauren measures the impact of exhibits and educational programs run by the museum, helping to design future museum initiatives and programs. More broadly, Lauren’s research interests include studying spatial reasoning in school age children, specifically using spatial cues to promote learning through comparison, and the role of early language input on later academic outcomes. Previously, Lauren was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Lauren received her doctoral degree from the Department of Psychology in 2014. She received her undergraduate degree from Tufts.
Ian Fillmore
Ian Fillmore is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. Previously, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, MI. Ian’s research interests include price discrimination and public policy in the US college market, the impact of time between cognitive tasks on performance, using evidence from Advanced Placement Exams, and measuring the long run trends in higher education. He received his doctoral degree from the Department of Economics in 2015 and was the recipient of the Henry Morganthau, Jr. Dissertation Fellowship award. IHe received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University.
Tae Yeun Kim
Dr. Kim is a Pediatric Resident at the University of Chicago Medicine. Tae Yeun was a Postdoctoral Scholar at UChicago with the School of Social Service Administration’s Midwest Longitudinal Study of Asian American Families (ML-SAAF) Project. She received her doctoral degree from the School of Social Service Administration in 2015. Tae Yeun’s research expands the types of diversity explored in studies linked to children and family, school social work, and immigration by focusing on ethnic minority/immigrant adolescents and families, and on youth developmental outcomes (i.e., school, mental health, problem behaviors). She focuses on diverse Asian subgroups in particular. She received her undergraduate degree from Seoul National University and earned an AM from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.
Nicole Williams Beechum
Nicole Williams Beechum is a researcher and co-director of the Equitable Learning and Development Group at the UChicago Consortium on School Research. Nicole’s work has focused on the transitions to high school and postsecondary opportunities. She is co-organizing the Building Equitable Learning Environments Network, a national network focused on achieving equitable experiences and outcomes for historically marginalized students. Nicole is interested in how classroom environments contribute to student success – social-emotionally, developmentally, and academically. She has a BA from Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles, and an MA and PhD from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.