#  Computational Cognitive Development Lab 

 



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##  Latest News 

 



  [### Templeton World Charity Organization Grant Awarded to Dr. Bonawitz!

 ](/news/2025/10/templeton-world-charity-organization-grant-awarded-dr-bonawitz) October 27, 2025 

 Dr. Bonawitz has received a grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation for the project ‘A multi-method approach to discovering the origins of reasoning about multiple possibilities: Behavioral, neurological, computational, and environmental... 

 

 

   [### Welcome to CoCoDev Lab, Blerim!

 ](/news/2025/09/welcome-cocodev-lab-blerim) September 08, 2025 

 We’re excited to welcome Blerim Jashari to the CoCoDev family! Blerim is a first-year PhD student in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with a concentration in Human Development, Learning, and Teaching (HDLT). He brings a strong interest in social... 

 

 

   [### Congratulations to Dr. Ilona Bass!!

 ](/news/2024/12/congratulations-dr-ilona-bass) December 15, 2024 

 Congratulations to Dr. Ilona Bass, a postdoctoral researcher at CoCoDev Lab for receiving the Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood Grant (“Detecting and Learning From Automatic Teaching in Early Childhood”) with PI Dr. Elizabeth Bonawitz (and Co-PI Dr... 

 

 

   [### Welcome to CoCoDev Lab, Maya!

 ](/news/2024/12/welcome-cocodev-lab-maya) December 15, 2024 

 Big welcome to our new graduate student, Maya Komakhidze, to the CoCoDev family! Maya is a first-year PhD student in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with a concentration in Human Development, Learning, and Teaching (HDLT). 

 

 

   [### NSF Graduate Fellowship Awarded to Michelle Wong!

 ](/news/2024/04/nsf-graduate-fellowship-awarded-michelle-wong) April 15, 2024 

 Michelle was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to support her PhD work in the CoCoDev lab. This prestigious fellowship will support Michelle and additional research costs from 2024-2027 (and remains active for up to five full years.)... 

 

 

   [### NSF Grant Awarded to Dr. Bonawitz!

 ](/news/nsf-grant-awarded-dr-bonawitz) November 01, 2023 

 Dr. Bonawitz was awarded a new NSF Grant to study “Developing an early understanding of contagion in preschool- and kindergarten-aged children” in collaboration with Profs. Vanessa LoBue and Nina Fefferman 

 

 

   [### Dr. Ilona Bass receives an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship Award! 

 ](/news/dr-ilona-bass-receives-nsf-postdoctoral-fellowship-award) September 11, 2023 

 Dr. Ilona Bass was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award to advance her line of research on "Detecting, Evaluating, and Learning from Rote Teaching Across Development" Congratulations, Dr. Bass! 

 

 

   [### NSF Grant Awarded to Drs. Bonawitz and Bascandziev!!

 ](/news/nsf-grant-awarded-dr-igor-bascandziev) July 18, 2023 

 Dr. Igor Bascandziev was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study the cognitive mechanisms of guided instructions in the early elementary years with Dr. Bonawitz in collaboration with Rutgers University and UCSD. Congratulations, Dr... 

 

 

   [### Congratulations, Dr. Joseph Colantonio!

 ](/news/congratulations-your-defense-dr-joseph-colantonio) August 30, 2023 

 Previous graduate student with CoCoDev, Joseph Colantonio, has successfully defended his dissertation in August, 2023 and officially received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Rutgers University. CoCoDev is lucky to have Dr. Joseph Colantonio as a postdoctoral... 

 

 

   [### Welcome to CoCoDev, Michelle!!

 ](/news/welcome-cocodev-michelle) August 15, 2022 

 A big welcome to our new graduate student, Michelle Wong, to the CoCoDev family! Michelle is a first-year PhD student in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with a concentration in Human Development, Learning, and Teaching (HDLT). 

 

 

  

 

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