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Professor Cynthia Garcia-Coll and Assistant Professor Deborah Rivas-Drake presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for
Research on Adolescence, March 11-13, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA. Deborah Rivas-Drake presented two papers. The
first deals with the role of familism and peer discrimination in
fluctuations of ethnic identity and depression observed over the course
of an academic year among Latino college students.
The second paper finds that Latino high school students' perceptions of
positive regard for their ethnic group by adults at school is linked
to better grades and stronger feelings of academic competence, even
after accounting for their individual relationships with these adults.
Both studies have been carried out with the collective assistance of
education concentrators Colleen Dunwell, Martin Silva, and Sarah
Krellenstein
and recent graduates Eliana Reyes, Joshua Esteban, Bernice Fedestin, and
Cherie Cruz.