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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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
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2017-2018
Taryn Bullivant (English)
She Tells Stories in the Light: Indigenous Oral Storytelling
Leann Duprey (EdD)
Building a Leadership Image: A Content Analysis of Presidential Candidates
John Feilmeier (Computer Science)
Comparing Data Analytics Platforms for Use by Beginners
Heather Flyte (English)
The Princess Bridge and Slavoj Zizek’s Fantasy of the Real
Barbe Fogarty (DSW)
Service-learning and Research Project in Puerto Rico
Christina Fogle (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)
Implementation and Evaluation of Open Educational and Free Resources to Replace Textbook
Megan Giles (School Counseling Licensure)
The Impact of School Shootings in Communities – The Role of Community Altruism
Kimberly
Hardner (DSW)Understanding College Students with Physical Disabilities
Diane Irish (DSW)
Brief Intervention for the Education and Empowerment of Homeless Families
Marybeth Kern (Music Education)
Teaching Techniques of Broadway and Commercial Woodwind Doublers
Krista King (DSW)
Social Workers Navigating Medicaid Patients: Care Outside of the Emergency Department
Lisa Lowrie (DSW)
Service-learning and Research Project in Puerto Rico
Bonnie Marsh (DSW)
Child Maltreatment Effects on Health Outcomes
Lauren Masemore (Counselor Education)
The Diagnosis and Treatment of PTSD in Young Children – The Role of Resiliency
The Impact of School Shootings in Communities – The Role of Community Altruism
Arashi Mesa-Melo (School Counseling Licensure)
Red vs. Blue: Dealing with Post-Election Tension Through a Guidance Lesson
Karey Murphy (DSW)
International Study Within the DSW Program
Laura Navitsky (MSW)
Environmental Justice and Extractivist Disaster Recovery: Locating Sustainability in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Edward Probasco (English)
On Sinclair Lewis: Not the Hero we Wanted, But the Hero
we DeserveFelishatee Rodriguez (Mental Health Counseling)
An Analysis of Curative Factors in Self-Help Groups: Lessons Learned for Counselors
Khadija Salim (Mental Health Counseling)
Living Through the Sandwich Generation
James Wilkie (MSW)
Service-learning and Research Project in Puerto Rico
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2016-2017
Sharayah Bower (English)
Approaches to Utilizing Indigenous Non-fictional Texts to Teach Awareness about Sexual and Domestic Violence
Sarah Bryski (Counselor Education)
Finding their Stories: An Interdisciplinary Approach for School Counselors and LGBT Students
Genesis Felix (MSW)
Preparedness of Senior BSW Students Serving the Hispanic/Latino Community: An Exploratory Study
Kevin Gee (School Counseling Licensure)
Small Groups to Prep Students for Success
Lauren
Geldon (MSW)An Approach to Preventative Care While Working with Older Adults Within
Impatient Medical Case Management SettingsFelishatee Rodriguez (Mental Health Counseling)
Curative Factors in Self-Help Groups: A Humanistic Perspective for Training New Counselors
Khadija Salim (Mental Health Counseling)
Stress and Resiliency Factors Affecting Children and Adolescents in the Sandwich Generation
Dara Schwartz (Mental Health Counseling)
Exploring Issues, Questions
and Concerns Related to the Pennsylvania Code with Graduate StudentsAutumn
Zackowski (MSW)Examining the Factors Which Contribute to Youth Leaving, Re-entering, or Remaining in Foster Care After Age of Emancipation
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2015-2016
Alfred Bronakowski (MFA)
Using the Senses to Create an Immersive Interactive Experience
Emma Brooks (MFA)
Surface Design: The History, Evolution, and Importance
Angela Carr (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)
Establishing New Research, Interventions, Prevention Programs, and Systemic Change for Co-occurring Violence and Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Addiction Through an Integrative Ecological/Multi-Systemic Framework
Melissa Derhammer (Student Affairs in Higher Education)
The Shaping of a Peer Mentor Program
Justina Disciullo (MFA)
Hatch Show Print, Nashville Tennessee – Research on Woodblock Printing
Lauren
Geldon (MSW)Engagement, Assessment, and Ethics in Medical Case Management
Megan Gierka (Reading Education)
Differentiated Mentoring: Enhancing Pre-service Teacher Growth Through Roll-over Supervision
Amy Horger (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)
A Comprehensive Literature Review of the Integration of Family Therapy with Cancer Treatment
Donna Kazahaya (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)
A Comprehensive Literature Review of the Integration of Family Therapy with Cancer Treatment
Ambria Liles (School Counseling Certification)
Establishing Global Relationships with Bush Alaska Through Blackboard Collaborate. Instilling Global Perspectives While Keeping Local Heritage in Rural Native Alaska
Christopher McKeon (English)
Lost Children, Lost Land: Complex Families and Their Relationship with Southern Landscape in William Faulkner’s ‘The Sound and the Fury’
Matthew Rozzi (Mental Health Counseling)
Financial Abuse of the Elderly Perpetrated by Family Members
Christina Thrash (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)
A Comprehensive Literature Review of the Integration of Family Therapy with Cancer Treatment
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2014-2015
Kira Apple (English)
There’s a Story Behind Everything: Weaving ‘Tapestries’ and the Construction of Narrative in the Dragon Age Series
Melissa Derhammer (Student Affairs in Higher Education)
Lasso in the LASSI and Rope in Student Success
Amanda Funk (English)
Language at the Horizon: Anishinaabe Perspective on Culture and Communication
Julie Gabriel (MSW)
Mindfulness and Yoga Self-Care Practices for Caregivers
Elon Gruber (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)
Multidisciplinary Treatment for Elder Financial Abuse
Jenna Keppel (Mental Health Counseling)
Multidisciplinary Treatment for Elder Financial Abuse
Christopher McKeon (English)
Rise of the Machines: The Death of the Pastoral and Phillip in W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘Of Human Bondage’
Katherine Pritchett (MSW)
Children in Environment: A Study of the Social Environment Affecting Child Friendliness in the Counties of Pennsylvania
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2013-2014
Kira Apple (English)
He Felt His Being
Move in Music: An Exploration of Society, Monarchy, and Song in Tennyson’s ‘Idylls of the King’Megan Burr-Mecum (Counselor Education)
Development of an Online System for the Assessment of the Professional School Counseling Internship
Angela Carr (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)
A Constructivist View of Creativity in Research Planning
Kenneth Rohlfing (Computer Science)
Visualization of Spatial Sound in
Real Time Ramah Steinruck (Student Affairs in Higher Education)
A Constructivist View of Creativity in Research Planning