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Department of Psychology

2003-2004 Academic Year Grants

Faculty

Kenn Barron and Steve Evans have been awarded a CISAT Faculty Development Grant for a project entitled "Academic Motivation of Children with ADHD.

Bill Evans received a special grant from the JMU Provost’s Office to conduct curriculum development work necessary to propose an interdisciplinary Leadership Minor. $9962.

Steve Evans received a renewal of his VTSF Grant entitled Preventing Youth Smoking Throught Coordinated Community Basec Care.

Joann Grayson received a renewal of her Virginia Department of Social Services grant to produce the Virginia Child Protective Newsletter(VCPN). The grant would fund the production and distribution of three issues of the VCPN during fiscal year 2005. $41,000.

Charles Harris & Michael Stoloff , received a grant from our General Education program entitled: A One-Year Project for Establishing Consistency Among Multiple Sections of Cluster Five, Sociocultural Courses. $3,225.

Michele Kielty Briggs , Tammy Gilligan, Renee Staton, and Kenn Barron have been awarded a CISAT Faculty Development Grant for a project entitled "Child and Adolescent Well-Being in the Schools: An Interdisciplinary, Collaborative Approach."

Aashir Nasim has been awarded a grant from the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation for a project entitled "Cultural Orientation as a Protective Factor Against Smoking for African American Adolescents. This $13,000 grant supports work to be completed through June 2004.

M. Kent Todd (from the Department of Kinesology) and Monica Reis-Bergan have been awarded a CISAT Faculty Development Grant for a project entitled "Electronic Media Management Education for Youth."

Students

Ashley Gentry , a JMU Psychology Major received an APA-ORI Student Travel Award to attend the APA-ORI Workshop on Responsible Conduct of Research in Psychology, to be held in Washington in April. 

The following students applied for and received up to $100 in research and/or travel grants from the Department of Psychology . Recipients were selected by our Student Advisory Committee based on the merit of their proposals.

Nillie Fallah. Cultural Orientations as a Protective Factor Against Smoking for African American Adolescents.

Megan Forrester. The Effects of Multimedia Technology and Learning as Travel to SIOP Conference.

Katie Howard, Hallie Boisseau, Patricia Williams, Helen Curtis, Katrina Bishop, Jessica Martin, Dustin Wright, and Paige Mowry. Investigating Stereotypes of the Sexual Behavior of Greek Students.

Mary Huntsberry. An Experimental Analysis of Tertiary Conditioned Reinforcement as Applied in Various Animal Training Practices.

Audrey Koehler, Marcia Nowell, Christy Plumly, Jeremy Berneche, Emily Turnage, Kathryne Fink, Jennifer Emanuel, and Laura Henderson. Effect of Temporary Blindness and Modality on Information Recall.
Amanda Lindberg. Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations, High School to College.

Monica Massey and Marianne Lattiak. The Effects of Information Presentation and Modeling on Hand Washing Behavior.

Jennifer Pic, Gillian Loeser, Allison Garber, Kelly Miller, Matthew Frazer, Lacey Gaters, Alexis Koutoulakos, and Lauren McChesney. Task Completion and Distraction.

Erin Pitts. Examining the Spontaneously Hypertensive rat (SHR) as an Animal Model Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): An Analysis of Reinforcement Gradients.

L. Brooke Poerstel, Cori Gottschalk, Jennifer Dorf, Amy Mattingly, Lucy Heffern, Sarah Horsey and Katherine Skiff. The Effect of Cage Size on the Sterotypies of Deer Mice.

Melissa Shulleeta. Examining the Spontaneously Hypertensive rat (SHR) as an Animal Model of AD/HD: An Analysis of Conditioned Reinforcement Using an Observing Procedure.

Bebhinn Timmons. Workshop in Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders.

Andrew Urben, Sean Hughes, Thato Shaeffer, Megan Moran, Kim Constintino, Rachel Cole, Jennifer Neary, and Kathryn Brady. Accent Perceptions in Northerners and Southerners.

The following students applied and received grants from the JMU Chapter of Psi Chi for Professonal Development:

Mary Huntsberry: An Experimental Analysis of Tertiary Conditioned Reinforcement as it is Applied in Various Animal Training Practices

Melissa Shulleeta: Examining the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat (SHR) as an Animal Model of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD): An Analysis of Conditioned Reinforcement Using an Observing Procedure