Graduate Student Research
The Graduate Student Conference Presentation Grant provides funding for graduate students to present their scholarly work at professional meetings and conferences.
Graduate Student Grant Guidelines & Application
Grant Recipients
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2023-2024
Kealsey Beecham (Doctor of Social Work)
Domestic Violence Service Adequacy in Urban vs. Rural Pennsylvania
Amelia Coates (MA Arts Administration)
The Responsibility of Museum Educators to Address Provenance: A Review of The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks
Mallie Culpepper-Yablonsky (Education Doctorate in Transformational Teaching and Learning)
Culturally Integrating Nuestra Juventud: Understanding Spanish-speaking Multilingual Learners through Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Elliot Elbaum (MA Marriage, Couple, & Family Counseling)
College Counseling in a Post-Covid Era
Alice Fischer (Doctor of Social Work)
Developing an Academic School Social Work Research Center: A Partnership with the Practice Community
ElisaBeth Hutchinson (MA Marriage, Couple, & Family Counseling)
Practice Across State Lines: Ethics in the Context of the Compact
Beth Lattanzi (Education Doctorate in Transformational Teaching and Learning)
Exploring the Representation of Diversity Within a Professor’s Personal Classroom Book Collection: How a Professor and Students Experienced the Effects of DEI Instruction and an Equity Audit
Melissa Moxley (Education Doctorate in Transformational Teaching and Learning)
More Than Just Checking a Box: Teachers' Experiences of Equity-focused Professional Learning
Giovanni Negron-Garcia (M.Ed. Student Affairs / Higher Education)
Intergroup Dialogue and Advancing DEI in Higher Education (and Beyond)
Tessa Palmer (Doctor of Social Work)
The Benefits of Nature-Based Education
Jaclyn Rodick (M.Ed. Student Affairs / Higher Education)
Aaron Springer (M.Ed. Student Affairs / Higher Education)Fostering a Culture of Collaboration in the Widening Skills Gap
Rachel Rubright (MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling)
Outside In: An Indoor Model for Ecotherapy in the Treatment of Trauma
Jessica Smith (M.Ed. Student Affairs / Higher Education)
Erica Nemitz (M.Ed. Student Affairs / Higher Education)Restructuring the Path of Return: Post-Pandemic Effects on Students' Mental Health in Higher Education and Its Impact on Student Affairs
Christopher Thomas (Education Doctorate in Transformational Teaching and Learning)
Equity in Focus: Empowering Teachers for Transformational Change
Mara Thompson (Education Doctorate in Transformational Teaching and Learning)
Hidden Meanings in Elementary Instrumental Music Method Books: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis
Rachael Van Doren (MS School Counseling Licensure)
Practice Across State Lines: Ethics in the Context of the Compact
Marissa Wallace (Education Doctorate in Transformational Teaching and Learning)
Equity in Focus: Empowering Teachers for Transformational Change
Enock Yeboah (MED SEU/CURR & INSTR)
Standardized Test as a Form of Gatekeeping in Ghana
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2022-2023
Jay Boyer (MA English)
Player or Pawn? Culpability within Found Footage Inspired Video Games
Adam Christian (MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling)
A Neuroscience-Informed Guiding Metaphor for Graduate Counseling Students
Bailey Higgins (DSW Social Work)
Without a Village: Motherhood, Child Care, and COVID-19
Lakshmi Nair Kanangottu (MA Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling)
Radical Engagement of Refugee Families within a Collaborative, Community-Base Clinical Trauma Counseling Program: Three Case Illustrations
Heather Miller (DSW Social Work)
Connections is Key! Supporting Older Youth Transitioning from Foster Care
Jordan Pettit (MS School Counseling Licensure)
Motivating Factors for Kindness in High School Youth; Does Observation of Kind Acts Increase Subjective Happiness and Optimism?
Victoria Smurthwaite (MA English)
Dead at the Mountain’s Feet: Blame and Vengeance in Dwarven and Human Ruins
Melissa Stough (Student Affairs in Higher Education)
From Private to Public: The Transfer Student Experience
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2021-2022
Brian Fritz (Clinical Mental Health Counseling)
Money Scripts in Counseling: Empowering Clients to be Financially Well
Emonie Reviere (Clinical Mental Health Counseling)
Money Scripts in Counseling: Empowering Clients to be Financially Well
Mike Turrell (School Counseling Licensure)
Money Scripts in Counseling: Empowering Clients to be Financially Well
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2020-2021
Alexis Williams (Student Affairs in Higher Education)
Closing the Loop from Honors Students to Honors Professional
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2019-2020
Rachel Bernini (DSW)
Understanding the Impact of Education on the Effectiveness of Supervision
Erin Brown (EdD)
The Effect of Differentiated Instruction on Education Trainees at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
Megan Deptula (Mental Health Counseling)
Effects of Experiential Education Processes Upon Different Types of Learning
Marlene Fares (EdD)
Using Our Voices: Advocating for Community and Social Justice
Amanda Fink (School Counseling Licensure)
The Four A Model for Addiction Treatment
Barbe Fogarty (DSW)
Understanding the Impacts of Mutual Solidarity Microfinance Groups on Community Well-being in Rural Haiti
Paige Lilly-Ivens (School Counseling Licensure)
The Four A Model for Addiction Treatment
Leila Little (EdD)
Using Our Voices: Advocating for Community and Social Justice
Ikechukwu Okorji (School Counseling Licensure)
The Four A Model for Addiction Treatment
Emily Pisco (EdD)
Using Our Voices: Advocating for Community and Social Justice
Eric Rusiewicz (Mental Health Counseling)
Effects of Experiential Education Processes Upon Different Types of Learning
Megan Stehman (English)
The Purple Man and His Words: Consent and Agency in Marvel’s ‘Jessica Jones’
Nikki Talarico (Mental Health Counseling)
Anxiety in Athletes: Not all are the same
Cesar Velasquez (School Counseling Licensure)
The Four A Model for Addiction Treatment
Ian Wagner (Mental Health Counseling)
Transgender Emergence: A Journey Toward Leadership and Advocacy
Amber Weber (MSW/MPA)
Sensory Rooms: What We Know and What is to Come
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2018-2019
Maria Aguiar (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)
The Ethics of Disaster Mental Health: Disillusionment Among First Responders
David Eltz (English)
(Super) Collisions of the Static and Moving Image
Marlene Fares (EdD)
Advising as Teaching: The Effect of Academic Advising on the Success of Freshmen Exploratory Studies Students
Barbe Fogarty (DSW)
Utilizing a Multi-disciplinary Framework for Analyzing and Developing Family-centered Public Policies
Diane Irish (DSW)
Educational Intervention with Families Experiencing Homelessness
Laura Johnson (Mental Health Counseling)
The Ethics of Disaster Mental Health: Disillusionment Among First Responders
Judy Lin (School Counseling Licensure)
The Ethics of Disaster Mental Health: Disillusionment Among First Responders
Leila Little (EdD)
How we got Here: Testimonios of Latina Educators
Evelyn Lopez (Mental Health Counseling)
The Ethics of Disaster Mental Health: Disillusionment Among First Responders
Lisa Lowrie (DSW)
Exploring the Risk and Protective Factors Surrounding Digital Communication in Human Services
Aubrey Manmiller (School Counseling Licensure)
The Ethics of Disaster Mental Health: Disillusionment Among First Responders
Bonnie Marsh (DSW)
Impact of Supervision and Management on Casework Retention
Lauren Masemore (Counselor Education)
Enhancing Pedagogy and Supervision through Neuroscience Technology
Taylor Person (MSW)
Understanding the Significance and Impacts of Historical Trauma in the Black Community
Emily Pisco (EdD)
Developing Critical Epistemologies as New Practitioner Scholars in an Ed.D. Program
Edward Probasco (English)
On Shakespeare and Sleep: A Defamiliarizing Approach to the Loss of Innocence
Felishatee Rodriguez (Mental Health Counseling)
Enhancing Pedagogy and Supervision Through Neuroscience Technology
Erica Smith (English)
The Ghost of Jim Crow is Everywhere: Women of Color in Today’s University
William Starkey (MFA)
Using Design Processes and Thinking to Ensure Usability
Megan Stehman (English)
Jessica Jones’ Kilgrave: The Villain as a Rape Allegory and Personification of Mental Disorders
Rebekah Stem (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)
A Pennsylvania School Counselor’s Guide to Applying for
Recognized ASCA Model Program (RAMP) Using the K-12 (339) Guidance PlanAmanda Svetlak (Arts Administration)
Tuscan Treasure – A Case Study of Object, Legend, and Culture in Chiusdino, Italy
Roxanne Taglienti (School Counseling Licensure)
A Pennsylvania School Counselor’s Guide to Applying for
Recognized ASCA Model Program (RAMP) Using the K-12 (339) Guidance PlanPatricia Tinsman (EdD)
Developing Critical Epistemologies as New Practitioner Scholars in an Ed.D. Program
Robyn Weaver (MSW)
Understanding the Impacts of Mutual Solidarity Microfinance Groups on Community Well-being in Rural Haiti
Ashley Womer (Mental Health Counseling)
Enhancing Pedagogy and Supervision through Neuroscience Technology