Faculty Directory

2025 

Arthur Vining Davis Foundations/ACLS Fellowships for Research on the Liberal Arts, Examining the Impact of Public Liberal Arts Education on Cultivating Civic and Democratic Citizenship: Causes and Results, $45,000 

2024 

Cultivating Intellectual Character in the AI Age, $470,442 

2024 

Visiting Scholar, State-to-State Program Baden-Württemberg/North Carolina –Faculty Mobility Program, Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg. 1,200 euro. 

2021 

Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) Scholar, $8,000 Funding provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

Project: Aligning skills, competency frameworks, and learning outcomes 

2021 

David P. Gardner Research Seminar Fellowship on Higher Education, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley 

2020 

Educational Testing Service (ETS) Intern, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

2025, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations/ACLS Fellowships for Research on the Liberal Arts, Examining the Impact of Public Liberal Arts Education on Cultivating Civic and Democratic Citizenship: Causes and Results, $45,000 

2024, Cultivating Intellectual Character in the AI Age, $470,442 

2024, Visiting Scholar, State-to-State Program Baden-Württemberg/North Carolina –Faculty Mobility Program, Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg. 1,200 euro. 

Orona, G. A., Eccles, J. S., Solanki, S., Copp, D. A., Dang, Q. V., & Arum, R. (2025). The structure of adult thinking: A network approach to (meta) cognitive processing. Learning and Individual Differences, 117, 102584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102584

Orona, G. A., & Trautwein, U. (2024). Thinking disposition education improves cognitive reflection: Experimental results from an intervention study. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 101569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2024.101569

Orona, G. A., Eccles, J. S., Zitzmann, S., Fischer, C., & Arum, R. (2023). Cognitive development in undergraduate emerging adults: How course-taking breadth supports skill formation. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 74, 102206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2023.102206