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Dr. Leslie Echols, MSU associate professor of psychology, conducts research in a middle school classroom, pre-COVID19.

Tackling bullying and promoting friendships in middle schools

Powering Up program made possible by National Science Foundation grant.

April 6, 2021 by Strategic Communication

How do kids build friendships and navigate bullying in schools? Dr. Leslie Echols, Missouri State University associate professor of psychology, is trying to find out with her latest research project.

Echols and her co-researcher, Dr. Sandra Graham from University of California – Los Angeles, received a grant of about half a million dollars from the National Science Foundation. It will be used to create and implement an anti-bullying program in selected middle schools in both Missouri and California.

Echols shares more about her research focus and the new project.

  1. Creating a positive peer-mentoring program
  2. Creating a positive peer-mentoring program


Read the full transcript for part 1

Read the full transcript for part 2

Read more about Echols’s research on Mind’s Eye

Filed Under: Discovery, Faculty and Staff Page Tagged With: faculty, Leslie Echols, McQueary College of Health and Human Services, Missouri State Journal, psychology, research

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