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2006-2007 Academic Year Grants
Students are indicated with an asterisk. Includes recent graduates.
Joann Grayson received a continuing grant from the Virginia Department of Social Services to produce the Virginia Child Protection Newsletter. ($43,500).
Lincoln Gray, William Ernst, Tim Schulte, Dan Haling, Steve Evans and Vicki Reed received the 2006-2007 Mosier Fellowship to study Distractibility among College Students. ($3,000).
Aashir Nasim received a grant from the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation to study “Pathways to Smoking among African American Adolescents: Family, Contextual and Cultural Factors. ($51,620).
Bryan Saville received a mini grant to present at SETOP and other conferences. ($750)
Donna L. Sundre, Carol A. Hurney, Christopher G. Murphy, Mary K. Handley, & Richard F. West have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation of for a project, entitled "Advancing Assessment of Scientific and Quantitative Reasoning." ($498,765)
Cheryl Talley received a grant from the Office of the Special Assistant to the President for a project entitled “2008 JMU Conference on Race & Ethnicity: Mr. Madison on Diversity and Democracy.” ($4020).
Charles Harris received a grant from JMU Libraries and Educational Technologies to fund stipends for doctoral students participating in an Information Literacy Curriculum Development Project. ($2500).
Charles Harris received a seed grant from the Center for Instructional Technology at JMU for the purchase of Adobe Presenter Software for web-based video lectures. ($200).
Charles Harris received a grant from the General Education Program at JMU for a project using a student response system to promote critical thinking in the sociocultural area courses.. ($3,750).
Charles Harris received a grant from the General Education Program at JMU for a project entitled, “Honoring Cultural Diversity Globally (developing online instructional modules for the hybrid Gpsyc 160). ($2,225)
Steve Evans is currently conducting projects under the following grants:
- NIMH, “Developing School Based Treatment of ADHD Adolescents” (2005-2008).
- Federal Department of Education, “Stepping Stones Research & Development Grant” (2006-2008).
- Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation, “Developing Treatments for Youth with MH problems and Substance Use” (2006-2009).
- NIMH, “Developing Treatments for Older Adolescents with ADHD” (2006-2009)
- IIHHS, “IIHHS Research Community Proposal” ($1000)
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 2006 semester:
- D. Max Crowley* and Lori Schwertfeger*. The Effect of Child Age and Gender on Agreement between Parent and Teacher Ratings of ADHD. ($400)
- Kara Makara*, Theresa Egan*, Maria Gandolfo* and Jason Kain*. Linking Achievement Goal Theory to Adaptive Outcomes in an Undergraduate Major. ($500)
- Kristen McDonough*. Investigating the Characteristics of Eyewitness Testimony. ($300)
- Reuel Sheldon*, Amy Durgin* and Mark Young*. Assessing the Dynamic Developmental Theory of ADHD using the SHR Rat:Resistance to Change following Variable-Interval Reinforcement. ($500)
- Lisa Ulmer*, Erin Delizzio*, Andy Osborn* and Jessica Ross*. An Analysis of the Use and Advantages of Web-Based Material on ADHD. ($500)
- Bridget Schultz* and Veronika Varfolomeva*. Differences between Maximizers and Satisficers Decision Making and Satisfaction with College Major. ($400)
- John Magnotti* and Andrew Luther*. Comparing the Effectiveness of Behavioral Teaching Methods Using Bloom’s Taxonomy. ($400)
- Kate Loveless*. How do we Rate our Professor? ($200)
- Renae Columbe* and Amy Schlottmann*. Caffeine Consumption and Delay Discounting in College Students. ($400)
- Elizabeth Dalianis*, Nicole Capik* and Stephen Robertson*. Examining the Role of Preparation Guides and Dyadic Discussion in Interteaching. ($500)
- Colleen Dolan*. The Relationship between Test Anxiety and Trait Anxiety and their Relationship to Verbal Working Memory. ($171)
- Brandon Taube* and Evan Baltzar*. Correlates of Pedometer-Determined Exercise in an After-School Fitness Program. ($500)
- Laura Dageforde. Empathy, Frame of Reference, and Cooperation in College Students. ($200)
Zewe Serpell received a grant from the JMU General Education Summer Grants Program for a project entitled “Professional Development Workshop for Part-Time Faculty Teaching of Gpsyc 101 and Gpsyc 160.” ($4,165)
Zewe Serpell & Steve Evans received an educational grant from the Eli Lilly Corporation to fund the Alvin V. Baird Center’s Annual Raising the Bar Conference: Improving the Standard of Care for Individuals with ADHD. ($1,500).
Zewe Serpell & Steve Evans received an educational grant from the McNeil Pharmaceuticals to fund the Alvin V. Baird Center’s Annual Raising the Bar Conference: Improving the Standard of Care for Individuals with ADHD. ($1,000).
Zewe Serpell & Steve Evans received an educational grant from the Novartis Pharmaceuticals to fund the Alvin V. Baird Center’s Annual Raising the Bar Conference: Improving the Standard of Care for Individuals with ADHD. ($1,000).
Zewe Serpell & Steve Evans received a grant from the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation for a project entitled “Preventing Youth Tobacco Use by Treating the Risk-Factor of ADHD: A Follow-up Study of Adolescents with ADHD.” ($39,964).
Zewe Serpell, Dena Pastor, & Cheryl Talley received a Professional Development Grant from GenEd to develop a training workshop on the goals and objectives of the sociocultural domain of cluster 5 with an integrated multicultural competence component and to assess the impact of this training on the part-time faculty participants and their students. ($4,165).
Kenn Barron received a JMU Center for Assessment and Research Studies General Education Assessment Faculty Fellowship for 2007 ($5000).
Terrie Rife & Cheryl Talley received a two-year grant entitled “Understanding Transcripitional Changes of Nitric Oxide Synthase I Leading to Diabetes” from the Commonwealth Health Research Board ($90,000).
Congratulations to the following faculty members who received mini-grants through the College of Integrated Science and Technology (CISAT) mini-grant competition to support faculty development:
- Natalie Kerr-Lawrence received a grant to support her professional travel to teaching conferences. ($750)
- Arnold Kahn received a grant to support his students presenting at SEPA. ($1000)
- Bryan Saville received a grant to support his travel for conference presentations. ($750)
- Michael Hall received a grant for his proposal “Attending to events in auditory sequences.” The funds are being used to purchase software for music perception experiments concerned with the nature of auditory attention. ($600)
- Wendy Borlabi & Marge Slattery received a grant from the CISAT Facutlty Development Committee to initiate a Sport Injury, Psycho-educational group for student-athletes. ($1000)
- Kenneth Barron & Sara Finney received a grant from the CISAT Faculty Development Committee for their proposal entitled “Motivational Assessment of the College Classroom Climate.” ($4,000).
- Craig Abrahamson, Gregg Henriques, Mark Gabriel & Steven Keffer received a grant from the CISAT Faculty Development Committee for their proposal entitled “Examining the Effectiveness of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for Reducing Anxiety in JMU Undergraduates.” ($4,000).
The faculty of the Department of Psychology is very pleased to announce that the following students received small grants in support of their research or conference travel for the Spring 2007 semester:
- Lisa Ulmer. What’s in a Face? The association between positive illusory bias and self-perceptions of appearance in children with ADHD. ($300)
- Daniel Ring. Reducing Drunk Driving by Inducing Cognitive Dissonance in College Students. ($200)
- Kiah Malick, Kathleen McCraw, Cassandra Class, Sarah Wilson, Kristen Letnick, Lisa Hughes, Caitlin Cassidy, Cathryn Thierry and Kristin Frichtl. Effects of sex of subject gender of assailant, and gender of victim on perceptions of rape. ($500)
- Robert Lytle. What is Beautiful is Innocent: The Effect of Defendant Attractiveness on Juror Decision-Making. ($200)
- Alex Zinicola and Stephen Robertson. Examining procedural details of the Chronic Mild Stress (CMS) procedure in rats. ($120)
- Chris Gesualdi and Jason Kopp. The Effects of Context in Effort Discounting. ($400)
- Jennifer Polasek and Kim Rodgers. Effects of Snoezelen on Elderly Residents with Depression, Aggressive Behavior, and Dementia. ($400)
- Anna Konova, Justin Sacks, Jessica Schudda and Marie Zambeno. The Impact of Quizzes on Students’ Self-efficacy and Exam Performance. ($500)
- Elizabeth Dalianis and Nicole Capik. The Aesthetics of Interteaching: Does introduction method affect acceptability? ($400)
- Nicole Capik and Elizabeth Dalianis. Measuring the Social Validity of Interteaching. ($400)
- Georgette Flood. A Little Bit Goes Further Than They Think: The Perceived Risk of Developing Melanoma Among Intermittent Tanning Bed Users. ($200)
- Amber Mendres, Kristin Kiel and Mark Young. Examining Predictions from the Dynamic Developmental Theory of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Assessing various animal models. ($500)
- Allison Brown and Kimberly Marchuk: Does Amount of Choice Affect Students’ Perceptions of Instructors? ($400)
- Sarah Irby. Differences between Maximizers and Satisfiers in Satisfaction with Relationship. ($200)
- Bayli Stillwell. Relationship between the Big Five personality factors and transformational leadership. ($150)
- Amy Durgin. Examining the effects of various task descriptions on college students’ performance on a probability matching task. ($200)
- Reuel Sheldon. Assessing the Dynamic Developmental Theory of ADHD: Resistance to Change Following VI Reinforcement. ($200)
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