Internal Faculty Awardees

Congratulations to the recipients of the AY 25 Faculty Collaboration Planning Funds! These funds are designed to promote new collaborations among faculty.

Dr. Rajashi Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of Organization and Leadership, and co-PI Dr. Chia-Yi Chiu, Associate Professor, Applied Statistics, Department of Human Development, for their project “Development of an Item Pool to Map the Human Potential for Transformative Learning (TL) Using the Computerized Adaptive Testing and Learning (CATL) Platform.”

Dr. Youmi Suk, Assistant Professor of Applied Statistics, Department of Human Development, and co-PI Dr. Benjamin J. Lovett, Associate Professor of Psychology and Education, Department of Health Studies & Applied Educational Psychology, for their project “Using Response Process Data to Measure Test-Taking Effort in Students Receiving Extended Time Accommodations.”

Congratulations to the following awardees of the AY24 Faculty Collaboration Planning Funds:

Srikala Naraian, Oren Pizmony-Levy, and Tran Templeton, Qualitative Inquiry for Sustainable Multi-Species Futures

Lena Verdeli, Carol Scheffner Hammer and Bryan Cheng, Improving Mental Wellbeing of Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities in Ghana

Congratulations to the following awardees of the AY23 Faculty Collaboration Planning Funds:

Matt Henley and Barbara Bashaw, Dance and Embodied Cognition: Kinetic Research Methods

Elizabeth Rosenzweig and Elaine Smolen, Pilot Investigation: Coaching Practices Implementation in Family-Centered Listening and Spoken Language Intervention

Congratulations to the following recipients of the AY25 Faculty Collaboration Project Funds. These funds are designed to support groups of faculty who are conducting leading-edge research projects that will likely lead to external funding.

Dr. Beth Rubin, Professor of Social Studies Education, Department of Arts & Humanities, and co-PIs: Dr. Michael Rebell, Professor of Law and Educational Practice, Department of Education Policy & Social Analysis, and Executive Director, the Center for Educational Equity (CEE), and Jessica Wolff, Director of Policy and Research, CEE, for their project “Supporting and Expanding Equitable Civic Learning through Research Practice Partnership: Developing a Collaborative Initiative.”

Dr. Renzhe Yu, Assistant Professor, Learning Analytics/Educational Data Mining, Department of Human Development, and Faculty Member, Data Science Institute, and co-PI Dr. Veronica Minaya, Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center (CCRC), and Adjunct Professor, Department of Education Policy & Social Analysis, for their project “Course2Skills: Understanding Postsecondary Student Success Through Curricular Content Analytics.”

Congratulations to the following recipients of the AY24 Faculty Collaboration Project Funds:

Nathan Holbert, Alex Bowers, Lalitha Vasudevan, Haeny Yoon and Tran Templeton, Technology Supported Learning Through Immersive Social Role-Play (LearningLARP)

Laudan Jahromi and Charles Basch, Emotion Regulation in the Context of Parent-Child Co-Regulation for Young Children with ASD: Implications for Parent and Children’s Health Related Activities of Daily Living

Na Lor, Shifting Spaces and Places: A Mixed Methods Study of Ethnic Studies from the Perspective of White Students

Elizabeth Rosenzweig, Elaine Smolen, and Maria Hartman, Feasibility of Online Training in Parent Coaching for Clinicians Who Provide Listening and Spoken Language Intervention for Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

S. Garnett Russell,  Education for Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding: the Case of Colombia

Matthew Zajic and Panagiota Tampakis, Examining Heterogeneity in Supports and Services for Families with an Autistic Child: Identifying Barriers and Facilitators of Culturally, Racially, and Socioeconomically Diverse Families within the Broader New York Area

Christine Cha, Shedding Light on the Future: Daily Tracking of Future-Oriented Thoughts in Suicidal Teens

Alex Eble, Persistence or Fadeout? Assessing the Medium-Term Impacts and Fadeout of a Bundled Para Teacher Intervention in Rural Gambia While Launching an Ambitious Cohort Study

Karen Froud, Reading in the Brain: the N170 Localization Project 

Patricia Martinez-Alvarez, Varied Ways of Reading (Formas Variadas de Leer) One Year Exploratory Pilot

Kimberly Noble, Baby’s First Years

Arora Prerna, Promoting Positive School Climate Among Newcomer Immigrant Adolescents

Congratulations to the following TC faculty awardees of the AY25 Ball Stick Bird internal grants:

Dr. Laudan Jahromi, Professor of Psychology and Education and Chair, Department of Health Studies & Applied Educational Psychology (HAEP), was awarded $20,000 for the project “Elevated Likelihood for Autism: Links to Academic Learning and Peer Engagement.” The TC faculty collaborator is Dr. Maithri Sivaraman, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education, Department of Health Studies & Applied Educational Psychology.

Dr. Elaine Smolen, Visiting Assistant Professor in Special Education, Department of Health Studies & Applied Educational Psychology (HAEP), was awarded $20,000 for the project “Talk2Me: Effects of a Parent Learning App on Auditory and Language Development for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children.” The TC faculty collaborator is Dr. Maria Hartman, Director of the Special Education Program and Lecturer, Department of Health Studies & Applied Educational Psychology, and the external collaborator is Dr. William Doyle, Executive Director, Weingarten Children's Center/Foundation for Hearing Research.

Dr. Sonya Troller-Renfree, Assistant Professor, Developmental Psychology, Department of Human Development, was awarded $20,000 for the project “Understanding the Role of the Heart-Brain Axis for Cognition and School Readiness.”  The TC faculty collaborator is Dr. Kevin Heffernan, Director of the Applied Neurovascular Physiology Lab and Associate Professor of Movement Science and Education, Department of Biobehavioral Sciences.

Dr. Matthew Zajic, Assistant Professor of Intellectual Disability/Autism,  Department of Health Studies & Applied Educational Psychology (HAEP), was awarded $19,521.75 for the project “The Impact of Interest on Writing Performance: Examining How Intense Interests Influence the Informative Writing Skills of Autistic Youth.” The TC faculty collaborator is Dr. Benjamin J. Lovett, Associate Professor of Psychology & Education, Director of the School Psychology Ph.D. Program, Department of Health Studies & Applied Educational Psychology. The external collaborator is Dr. Kristie Asaro-Saddler, Associate Professor of Special Education, University at Albany.

Kimberly Noble and Tyler Watts, The Effect of the Pandemic on Child Development and Learning: A Natural Experiment

Tran Templeton, Amanda Fellner and Haeny Yoon, Infants on the Move: Designing Classrooms Based on Children’s Movements

Matt Zajic, Benjamin Lovett and Michael Hebert, Does Modality Affect Writing Achievement? Examining the Effect of Task Modality on Transcription and Text Generation Skills in School-Age Children

We thank Provost KerryAnn O’Meara and the members of the Faculty Executive Committee's Race, Culture, and Diversity Subcommittee: Professors Srikala Naraian (Chair), Haeny Yoon, and Ezekiel Dixon-Román, for their work in the selection process of the Dean's Faculty Diversity Research Award and the Dean's Fellowship for Teaching and Diversity. 

Congratulations to the recipients of the Dean's Faculty Diversity Research Award who pursue research that investigates how diversity can benefit student learning, creativity, and preparation for a diverse society. The recipients are:

Dr. Na Lor, Assistant Professor, Department of Education Policy & Social Analysis, for the project "The Community College Ethnic Studies Project."

Dr. Grace Tamara Handy, Assistant Professor of Disability Studies, Department of Curriculum & Teaching, for the project "Inclusive Education and Students with Complex Disabilities: A Systems Change Approach."

Elizabeth Rosenzweig, A Qualitative Examination of Hasidic Mothers’ Experiences Raising Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children

S. Garnett Russell, Contexts of Reception and Access to Education: Perspective of Diverse Newcomer Families in New York City

We thank Provost KerryAnn O’Meara and the members of the Faculty Executive Committee's Race, Culture, and Diversity Subcommittee: Professors Srikala Naraian (Chair), Haeny Yoon, and Ezekiel Dixon-Román, for their work in the selection process of the Dean's Faculty Diversity Research Award and the Dean's Fellowship for Teaching and Diversity.

Congratulations to the recipients of the Dean's Fellowship for Teaching and Diversity who nominate graduate students to collaborate as Fellows on projects that promote pedagogical and curricular innovations. The recipients are:

Dr. David Hansen, John L. & Sue Ann Weinberg Professor in Historical & Philosophical Foundations of Education, Department of Arts & Humanities, for the project "Cosmopolitanism, Humanism, and Education in a Polarized World."

Dr. Patricia Martínez-Álvarez, Chair and Associate Professor of Bilingual/Bicultural Education, Department of Arts & Humanities, for the project “Mediating Artifacts for Literacy Learning: Theorizing the Role of Language and Culture in Reading Instruction with Bilingual Children with Disabilities.”

Dr. Daniela Romero Amaya, Lecturer, Citizenship, Human Rights, and Education, Department of International & Transcultural Studies, for the project "Citizenship and Human Rights Education: New York City as the Text."

Prerna Arora and Mel Collier-Meek, Embedding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion throughout School Psychology Coursework

Christine Cha, Shedding Light on the Future: Daily Tracking of Future-Oriented Thoughts in Suicidal Teens

Alex Eble, Persistence or Fadeout? Assessing the Medium-Term Impacts and Fadeout of a Bundled Para Teacher Intervention in Rural Gambia While Launching an Ambitious Cohort Study

Karen Froud, Reading in the Brain: the N170 Localization Project 

Patricia Martinez-Alvarez, Varied Ways of Reading (Formas Variadas de Leer) One Year Exploratory Pilot

Kimberly Noble, Baby’s First Years

Arora Prerna, Promoting Positive School Climate Among Newcomer Immigrant Adolescents