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2007-2008 Academic Year Grants
Students are indicated with an asterisk. Includes recent graduates.
Kenneth Barron received JMU’s 2007 Office of International Programs Faculty International Development Grant ($800); as well as JMU’s 2007 Center for Assessment and Research Studies Assessment Faculty Fellowship ($5,000).
Bill Evans received a grant from Academic Affairs for the International Personal Meaning Conference ($5,000). Dr. Evans also recieved two grants to attend the Viktor Frankl Institute from Office of International Programs, and CISAT ($500 and $1,000 respectively).
Joann Grayson received a continuing grant from the Virginia Department of Social Services to produce the Virginia Child Protection Newsletter ($43,500).
Charles Harris received a grant from JMU’s General Education Summer Grants Committee for a project entitled “Honoring Cultural Diversity Globally” ($2,225). Also through JMU, he received two grants to Develop Information Literacy Modules for GPSYC 101, 160 & SOCI 240 from Carrier Library and the General Education Program ($2,500 and $3,750 respectively). He also was awarded a seed grant from CISAT for Concept Mapping software ($200), and a grant through the Center for Faculty Innovation for an online workshop “The Learning Process and Collaborative Technologies” ($350). The Commonwealth of Virginia awarded him with a grant to provide a Professional Development Course for teachers working in the Department of Corrections ($4,200).
Jessica Irons received a CISAT Research grant entitled “Contingency Management of Smoking Cessation Among Adolescents” ($4,000).
Natalie Lawrence received a grant from Worth Publishers to help support the Eastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, to be held in June, 2008 ($2,000).
Aashir Nasim received a grant from the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation for a project entitled “Pathways to Smoking among African American Adolescents: Family, Contextual, and Cultural Factors” ($1,500).
Zewelanji Serpell received a grant from the Virginia Commonwealth University for a project entitled “Preventing Youth Tobacco Use by Treating the Risk-Factor of ADHD: A One Year Follow-up Study of Adolescents with ADHD” ($39,964). Dr. Serpell also received a grant continuation from the Virginia Commonwealth University for a project entitled “Preventing Youth Tobacco Use by Treating the Risk-Factor of ADHD: A One Year Follow-up Study of Adolescents with ADHD” ($18,231).
Sherry Serdikoff received a CISAT Research grant entitled “Cigarette Smoking at JMU: Characterization and Contingency Management” ($4,000).
Cheryl Talley received a grant from the Commonwealth Health Research Board for a project entitled “Understanding Transcriptional Changes of Nitric Oxide Synthase I Leading to Diabetes” ($90,000); as well as, funding from JMU’s Center for Faculty Innovation to attend Boot Camp for Professors ($2,000). She also received funding from CISAT’s Diversity Committee to attend the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) ($2,000).
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 Fall 2007 semester:
- Lisa Robertson*, Kristin Kiel*, & Brantley Jarvis*. Assessing the Dynamic Developmental Theory of ADHD in an Animal Model: Resistance to Change Following Variable Interval Reinforcement. ($600)
- Theresa Egan*, Nicole Capik*, & Stephen Robertson*. Effects of Saccharin Concentration on Saccharin Consumption and Preference: Implications for Research Involving the Chronic Mild Stress Procedure. ($600)
- Colleen Storey*. Effects of Social Stress on Interleukin-1 Levels in Female Rats. ($200)
- Matthew Slater* & Juliet Shalon*. Student Reactions to Male and Female Professor’ Helping Behavior. ($200)
- Kimberly Marchuk* & Elizabeth Huffer*. Maximizing and Social Comparison. ($400)
- Katharine Wheeler* & Christine Mason*. Analysis of the Maximization Scale, Regret Scale and Major Satisfaction in College Students. ($400)
- Stefani Thachik* & Sarah Irby*. Are You Ready for the ‘Real World’: An Evaluation of Two Career Development Courses. ($400)
- Caroline Chevalier* & Jessica Huddleston*. Exploring Characteristics of Blind-Walking. ($400)
- Alex Byland* School-Based Treatment for High School Students with ADHD. ($200)
- Olivia Christensen*. Maternal Characteristics and Family Conflict as Predictors of Parenting Style Among Mothers of Pre-adolescent Youth with ADHD. ($200)
- Chris Gesualdi*, Jason Kopp*, & Amanda Gisbert*. Internet Use and Delay Discounting in College Students. ($600)
- Robert Southerland*. Relationship Between Perfectionism and Test Anxiety. ($200)
The following students received small grants in support of their research or conference travel for the Spring 2008 semester:
- Brittany Atkins* & Chris Gesualdi*. Is Effort Discounting Best Described by a Hyperbolic or Exponential Function? ($200)
- Carolyn Bradshaw*. Hook Up or Date: Which Gender Benefits? ($347)
- Alex Byland*, Amanda Sorg*, Allyson Vasi*, & Alex Zinicola*. Contingency Management in the Classroom. ($600)
- Nicole Capik*. The Effects of Valerian Root on Anxiety in an Animal Model using the Elevated Plus Maze. ($500)
- Jamie Claytor*, Maria Gandolfo*, Kiah Malick*, Charley Martin*, Jacklyn McMillan*, Kimberly Rodgers*, Rebecca Seay*, & Ellen Webne*. The Effects of Sex of Subject, Gender of Assailant, and Gender of Victim on Perceptions of Rape. ($600)
- Heather Davis* & Kerri-Jean Carter*. Quantity and Intensity of Issues in Families with Adolescent Children with ADHD: Depends on Who You Ask. ($400)
- Chris Frazier*, Mike Hicks*, & Max Berkheimer*. Examining How Individuals Attribute Homophobic Comments. ($100)
- Amanda Gisbert*, Jason Kopp*, & Carolyn Telesco*. Internet Addiction and Impulsivity in College Students. ($200)
- Margaret Hawkins*, Olivia Christensen*, Loretta Vitt* & Alex Byland*. Difference Between Girls Diagnosed with ADHD in Adolescence and those Diagnosed in Childhood. ($400)
- Stephany Rene Herzog*. Finding Hope: Understanding the Racial and Socioeconomic Divide in New Orleans Residents Regarding Katrina Related Experiences. ($500)
- Jennifer Hoyle*. Testing St. John’s Wort using the Elevated Plus Maze as an Animal Model of Anxiety. ($500)
- Brantley Jarvis*. Toward Increasing the Cost-Effectiveness of Contingency Management: Using Percentile Schedules and Escalating Quality of Reinforcement in an Intervention Designed to Reduce Smoking in College Students. ($500)
- Kristin Kiel*. Examining Delayed and Immediate Reinforcement in a Contingency Management Smoking Cessation Intervention for College Students. ($500)
- Stephen Robertson*. Assessing the Putative Anxiolytic Effects of Kava Administration in the Elevated Plus Maze. ($500)
- Meghan Thompson*. Interteaching, Delay Discounting, and Effort Discounting. ($200)
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:
- JoAnne Brewster received support for travel and attendance of the annual meeting of the Consortium of Police Psychological Services (COPPS). ($1000)
- Joann Grayson received support for conference travel. ($483)
- Jessica Irons received support for travel to the annual Eastern Psychological Association, Association of Behavior Analysis, and Association for the Psychological Sciences. ($1000)
- Natalie Lawrence received a stipend for her work as Director of the Eastern Teaching Conference on the Teaching of Psychology (ETOP). ($1000)
- Bryan Saville received support to for conference travel. ($500)
- Sherry Serdikoff received support for travel to the annual meetings of the Eastern Psychological Association. ($1000)
- Tracy Zinn, received support for conference travel and to continue a student’s thesis project entitled “Are you ready for the real world? An evaluation of two career development courses.” ($586)
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