Ming-Te Wang Bio

Ming-Te Wang is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a developmental psychologist whose research interests focus on achievement motivation and engagement, risk and resilience, stereotype threat and learning, and school-based psychosocial intervention. He is known for his research documenting contextual and psychological factors that promote student engagement in learning. His work is noteworthy in that it emphasizes the interplay of developmental processes across both academic and social domains in children, and situates these processes within school, family, and community ecological contexts.

Dr. Wang is the recipient of the Richard E. Snow Research Award from American Psychological Association, Outstanding Early Career Research Award from Society of Child Development and American Educational Research Association, and Association for Psychological Science. He received his doctorate in Human and Psychology from Harvard University. Prior to graduate school, he taught middle school for five years.

University of Pittsburgh
mtwang@pitt.edu