Dr. Yu Named Recipient of OSU Distinguished Teaching Award 

Dr. Yu has been named one of the recipients of the 2024-2025 OSU Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, the university's highest recognition for teaching excellence among full-time faculty at the ranks of instructor through professor. This prestigious award honors exceptional educators and is based on nominations from students, faculty, and alumni. 

Learn more about Dr. Yu's award in the college news release. Additional information about the awards can be found in the Office of Faculty Affairs announcement and OSU news release.

Shirley L. Yu is an associate professor of educational psychology in the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University. Her research interests are centered on the relations of self-regulated learning, motivation, and instructional contexts to retention and achievement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), with a particular emphasis on women and ethnic minority students. She is the director of the Graduate Certificate in College and University Teaching and a senior faculty affiliate at the Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning. She serves on the Policy Committee for Division 15: Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association and the editorial boards for the Journal of Experimental Education and Educational Psychology for Policy and Practice. She is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, most recently OSU's Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Academic Appointments

The Ohio State University

2013 - present Associate Professor

Educational Psychology

Department of Educational Studies

University of Houston

2003 - 2013 Associate Professor

Educational Psychology

Department of Educational Psychology

1996 - 2003 Assistant Professor

Educational Psychology

Department of Educational Psychology

Education

PhD University of Michigan 

 Education and Psychology

MA University of Michigan

 Psychology (Emphasis: Developmental)

BA University of California, Los Angeles 

 Psychology

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