2008-09 Student Dissertation Research Initiation Grant Recipients

Graduate student Dissertation Research Initiation Grants for College of Education doctoral students at University Park are offered each fall and spring semester through the generosity of the Office of the Dean of the College of Education. Students must be at the dissertation level to apply. Below are the 2008-09 recipients.

Wen-Chun Chen- $600.00

School Quality, Racial Composition, and Choice

Anna Dendy- $600.00

Journeys Toward Competence with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients: A Qualitative Study with Heterosexual psychologists and Psychologists in Training

Natalie Hernandez DePalma- $600.00

Maternal Relational Variables and Feeding Attitudes as Contributors to Childhood Obesity

Jennifer Hardy- $600.00

Attachment and the Interpersonal Process of Psychotherapy

Tara Lee- $600.00

A Mindfulness Meditation Intervention for Incarcerated Women

Norifumi Miyokawa- $600.00

National Interests and International Student Access to U.S. Higher Education: Policy Advocacy of International Educators

Hien Nguyen- $600.00

Effects of Constraint and interactive Intercultural Elaboration in a Multicultural Online Discussion Board Environment

Maryjo Oster- $600.00

Prevention & Politics: Sex Education Policy in Pennsylvania

Chris Radziwon- $600.00

Help-Seeking Intentions in Adolescents: Links to Attachment, Distress, and Coping

Blaire Wilson Toso- $600.00

Latina Mothers' Perceptions of Agency: Achieving Desires Through Discourses in Family Literacy