2009-10 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 2009-10 recipients.

Brendaly Drayton- $600.00

Perceptions of Literacy Among African American Men in an Adult Literacy Program

Heather Godine- $600.00

Secondary Students' Reasoning About Rate of Change

Jordan Humphrey- $600.00

Liberal Arts Colleges in the Tumultuous 1940s: Institutional Identity and the Challenges of Ware and Peace

Ying (Jessie) Liu- $600.00

An Exploration of Multiple Patterns of Faculty Productivity

Erin McHenry-Sorber- $600.00

Political Quagmire: School and CommunityConflict in the Midst of a Teacher Strike

Meghan Pifer- $600.00

Networks in Academic Departments: Individual Strategies and patterns of Access

Crystal Ramsay- $600.00

Compensating for Middle School Learners' Low Prior Knowledge: The Role of Relevance Manipulations in the Reading of
Informational Text

Christina Schendel- $600.00

Trainees' Ability to Manage Countertransference: An Exploration of Emotional Intelligence and Counselor Self- Efficacy

Kamaria Smith- $600.00

Mediational Role of Coping in the Relations Between Attachment and Psychological Distress in a Sample of Adolescent Mothers in Foster Care

Shakoor Ward- $600.00

An Investigation of Faculty Influence on Psychosocial Variables Affecting the persistence of African American Students at a Predominately White University