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"
Dean's Summer Research Faculty Fellowship Recipients
Dr. Genia Bettencourt, LEAD
Dr. Jennifer Renick, CEPR
Dr. Olayinka Mohorn-Mintah, ICL
Dr. Wesam Salem, ICL
2022-2023 Faculty Research Award Winners
Research Grant Award Winners
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"
Dean’s Summer Research Faculty Fellowships Recipients
Dr. Taneshia Greenidge, CEPR
Dr. Crystal Cook, ICL
Dr. Dan Collier, LEAD
2021-2022 Faculty Research Grant Award Winners
Dr. Ashley Batastini, CEPR, “Perceptions, Options, and Barriers in the Treatment of the Justice Involvedâ€
Dr. Genia Bettencourt, LEAD, “Examining the Experiences of Student Caregiversâ€
Dr. Daniel Collier, LEAD, “Winning in West Tennesseeâ€
Dr. Anna Falkner, ICL, “Contexts for Learning About Race & Racism in the Early Gradesâ€
Dr. Denise Winsor, CEPR, “Middle School Students Stress and Coping During COVID-19: Exploring Teacher
and Parent Perspectives on Student Growth Mindsetâ€
2020-2021 Faculty Research Grant Award Winners
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"
2019-2020 Faculty Research Grant Award Winners
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"
2018-2019 Faculty Research Grant Award Recipients
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"