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2005-2006 Academic Year Grants
Students are indicated with an asterisk. Includes recent graduates.
Bill Evans was awarded $2,500 to participate in an International Leadership Association Conference in Amsterdam, November 2005.
Joann Grayson has received a renewal of her grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Social Services to fund production of three issues of the Virginia Child Protective Newsletter (VCPN) during the 2005-2006 academic year. $43,000. This grant will be renewed again for 2006-2007 for $43,500.
Michael Hall received a $600 grant from Kjersti Andvig for Analysis and Re-synthesis of Vocal Timbre.
Charles Harris was awarded $1,100 from the Department of Corrections, Commonwealth of Virginia for the Program Development for Teaching Personnel, Virginia Department of Corrections.
Natalie Kerr Lawrence has received a grant from the APA Board of Educational Affairs (BEA) to support the planning of the Eastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology (ETOP), planned for Summer 2007. $1,125.
Aashir Nasim has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Program Fellowship Award, from the National Center on Minority Health & Health Disparities (NCMHD). His will receive $62,000 over the next 2-years. Aashir Nasim is Co-Principal Investigator on a grant funded by the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation, which will study protective factors for smoking among urban and rural African American children and adolescents. Aashir’s research mentor at VCU, Dr. Faye Belgrave is listed as the Principal Investigator. The multi-site project will be funded for three-years for a total of $728,929, of which JMU is to receive $154,880. Dr. Nasim has also received an American Educational Research Association – Institute for Educational Sciences (AERA-IES) Research Grant to study Media literacy as a protective factor against substance use. This grant will be funded from September 2005 through August 2006. $15,000. He also received a travel grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Health Disparities Conference entitled Bridging Science & Culture to Improve Drug Abuse Research in Minority Communities. $750. Dr. Nasim is also a contributor/collaborator for the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation (VTSF) program grant submitted by the Harrisonburg-Rockingham County Boys and Girls Clubs.
Zewe Serpell and Steve Evans received grants for the Annual “Raising the Bar: Improving the Standard of Care for Individuals with ADHD” Conference in July of 2006 from Eli Lilly & Company ($1,500) and from the McNeil Cooperation ($2,000).
Cheryl Talley was awarded a grant from the Bridges Program to help Research Funding. The amount received was $2,000.
The following faculty have been awarded CISAT Grants for up to $4,000 for the academic year 2006-2007:
- Steve Evans will be using the grant for his research on “Attitudes Towards Nutritional Treatment: A Survey of Parents of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)”.
- Natalie Kerr Lawrence will be using the grant for her research on “The Impact of Announced Chapter Quizzes on Students’ Self-Efficacy and Exam Performance”.
The following faculty have received CISAT Mini Grants for the 2006 Spring Semester:
- Pamela Gibson received $700 to help fund her research on "Health Care Providers’ Perceptions and Practices Regarding Multiple Chemical Sensitivity".
- Charles Harris received $875 to help fund his project on "Utilizing Foreign Embassies as Resources for Internationalizing the Curriculum of GPSYC 160 Life Span Human Development".
- Arnie Kahn received $300 to help fund his research on Rape Prevention Strategies.
- Natalie Kerr Lawrence received $435 to help defray the cost of presenting at the Southeastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology.
- Bryan Saville & Tracy Zinn each received $405 to help defray the cost of attending the Association for Psychological Science (APS) conference in May.
The following faculty have were all selected to participate in the 2006 CIT Summer Institute to help them develop new online courses in Comparative Animal Behavior, General Psychology and Psychology of Learning, respectively. They each received a grant of $2,000 from JMU to attend the CIT Institute.
- Suzanne Baker
- Charles Huffman
- Sherry Serdikoff
The following faculty were all selected to receive General Education Grants:
- Charles Harris received funding for the project :Using a Student Response System to Promote Critical Thinking in the Sociocultural Area Courses,” $3750.
- Natalie Kerr Lawrence received a grant for her 2006 Faculty Workshop, $3775.
The faculty of the Department of Psychology is very pleased to announce that the following students will receive small grants in support of their research or conference travel for the Fall 2005 semester.
- Rebecca Oliver*. The Effects of Abnormal Visual Persistence and Processing Speed in Dyslexia on Natural Scene Processing Verse Verbal Item Processing. ($300)
- Chelsea Wieczorek*. Intelligence and Diversity: Do Students From Different Backgrounds Define These Terms Differently? ($138)
- John Magnotti*. Performance vs. Effort: How Would Students Assign Grades? ($138)
- Kimberly Marchuk* and Bridget Schultz*. Are Students Customers? A Comparison of Student and Faculty Opinions. ($228)
- Elizabeth McGee*. Academic Performance and Satisfaction with Interteaching: Do Level of Achievement Motivation & Gender Play a Role? ($138)
- Alison Janowicz*. The Impact Viewing Media Images had on the Body Satisfaction of Men and Women. ($250)
- Jessica Merkel* and Natalie Marston*. Health Care Providers’ Perceptions and Practices Regarding Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. ($300)
- Kelsey Milligan*, Kristin Lee*, Cathryn Thierry*, Meredith Wessels* and Monica Scherer*. Spatial Learning and Foraging in Deer Mice, Peromyscus Maniculatus. ($300)
The faculty of the Department of Psychology is very pleased to announce that the following students will receive small grants in support of their research or conference travel for the Spring, 2006 semester:
- Jessica Major*. Perceived Social Self-efficacy and Perceived Interaction Between Family and Peers. ($25 plus copier expense)
- Kelly Atwood*. Life Meaning, Spirituality, Death Anxiety and Addiction. ($300)
- Samantha Hess*, Jennifer Rudy*, Shannon Cooper* and Justin Sacks*. Teachers’ Perceived Self-Efficacy. ($300)
- Melissa Zaleski*, Elizabeth Dalianis* and Andrew Hucks*. Examining Programmed Instruction (PI) vs. PI Combined with Interteaching (IT). ($300)
- Lisa Rezner* and Carson Walker*. The Qualitative Phase of an Exploratory Mixed Method Investigation of College Classroom Climates. ($300)
- Rebecca Wilde*. Behaviors Leading to Social Acceptance and Rejection in Young Adolescents with ADHD: Implications for Social Skills Interventions. ($48 poster)
- Rachel Heiser*, Andrea Schleifman*, Brittany Corbett*, Amy Hall*, Jennifer Neary*, Kelsey Milligan* and Katie Aufderhaar*. Resisting Rape. ($300)
The following students are winners of 2006 Psi Chi Grant Awards from the JMU Chapter of Psi Chi in support of their outstanding scholarship:
- Andrew Hucks. “The effect of self-generated rules and task description on students' probability matching.” ($1160 - to present at the Association for Behavior Analysis: International)
- Jason Kain. “Linking Current student adaptive and maladaptive behaviors to achievement goal theory: An explanatory mixed-method design.” ($290 - to present at Virginia Psychological Association)
- Melissa Zaleski. “Programmed instruction and programmed instruction combined with interteaching.” ($688 - to present at Eastern Psychological Association)
