College of Education Research Grant Award Winners

Dr. Huan Gao, ICL, "Educational Support Strategies: Information-Seeking Practice of Chinese Immigrant Parents in Low-Density Areas" (Read more>)
Dr. Dustin Hornbeck, LEAD, "Conceptualizing U.S. Democracy: Insights from Secondary Social Studies Teachers" (Read more>)
Dr. Yeonji Jung, ICL, "Learner-AI Collaboration: Unpacking Dynamics in Engagement with AI for Knowledge Co-Construction" (Read more>)
Dr. Amanda Rockinson, ICL, "Eating Disorders in Academia - A Qualitative INvestigation of STEM Women Faculty Experiences with Career Advancement and Well-Being"

Dr. Edith Gnanadass, LEAD, "Learning Race in the South Asian American Experience"
Dr. Charisse Gulosino, LEAD, "Evaluating Education Management Organization (EMO) Impacts: What are the Effects of EMO-Operated Schools on Student Achievement, School Disciplin, and Segregation?"
Dr. Alison Happel-Parkins, CEPR, "Pelvic Floor Health Experiences for LGBTQI+ Folx"
Dr. Suman Rath, ICL, "From Learning to Teach to Teaching Learners: Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching and Clinical Mentoring and Coaching Initiative"

Dr. Ashley Batastini, CEPR, “Perceptions, Options, and Barriers in the Treatment of the Justice Involved”
Dr. Genia Bettencourt, LEAD, “Examining the Experiences of Student Caregivers”
Dr. Daniel Collier, LEAD, “Winning in West Tennessee”
Dr. Anna Falkner, ICL, “Contexts for Learning About Race & Racism in the Early Grades”
Dr. Denise Winsor, CEPR, “Middle School Students Stress and Coping During COVID-19: Exploring Teacher and Parent Perspectives on Student Growth Mindset”

Dr. Michelle Brasfield, CEPR, "Providing Support to Educator's Affected by Trauma"
Dr. Eli Jones, CEPR, "Sources of Research Self-Efficacy and FirstGeneration Undergraduate Students: Measurement Considerations"
Dr. Andrew Tawfik, ICL, "Design and Development of Informal STEM Learning to Address Equity"

Dr. Jeffrey Byford, ICL, "Growing Up in East Germany: The Making of Socialist Youth"
Dr. Luann Ley Davis, ICL, "Mathematical Problem Solving for Learners with Developmental Disabilities and/or ASD"
Dr. Chi Li, CEPR, "The Need for Clinical Training for Counselors Working in Integrated Behavioral Healthcare"
Dr. Suzanne Lease, CEPR, "A Conservation of Resources Approach to HIV Related Stigma"
Dr. Eric Platt, LEAD, "The Woodstock Letters: Communicating the History and Memory of Jesuit Education in The United States 1872-1969"
Dr. Jade Xu, CEPR, "Near-Peer Mentoring for Academically At-Risk Students in STEM Majors: A Pilot Study"

Dr. Diana Delgado, ICL, "Using Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy to Decrease Medical Procedure Phobia in Children with Developmental Disabilities"
Dr. Yeh Hsueh, CEPR, "Chinese Rural Preschool in Transformation: Cultural Changes and Continuity"
Dr. Rachael Ross, ICL, "Reading 'Chutes and Ladders' using LLI as a Ladder Against the Summer 'chute'"
Dr. Eraina Schauss, CEPR, "Fostering Intrinsic Resilience: A Social, Environmental and Neuroscience Intervention for ACE Exposed Children"
Dr. Katie Wade-Jaimes, ICL, "Understanding the Impact of STEM Schools in Urban Areas"

Dean’s Summer Research Faculty Fellowships Recipients

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