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
2024 NASPA Annual Conference
Graduate student Giovanni Negron-Garcia presented his research, Intergroup Dialogue and Advancing DEI in Higher Education (and Beyond), at the conference in Seattle, WA.
2024 NASPA Annual Conference
Graduate student Giovanni Negron-Garcia presenting his research, Intergroup Dialogue and Advancing DEI in Higher Education (and Beyond), at the conference in Seattle. Attendees learned how to contribute to group dialogue in ways that will positively impact their community of higher learning (and beyond).
Attendees at the 2024 NASPA Annual Conference
Graduate student Giovanni Negron-Garcia presented his research, Intergroup Dialogue and Advancing DEI in Higher Education (and Beyond).