{"id":66728,"date":"2020-09-17T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=bu-article&p=66728"},"modified":"2023-09-13T22:06:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T02:06:21","slug":"bu-wheelock-announces-fall-2020-faculty-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2020\/bu-wheelock-announces-fall-2020-faculty-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Wheelock Announces Fall Faculty Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Five BU Wheelock faculty members were recently honored for their scholarly contributions and excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edward H. Ladd Award for Academic Excellence & Service: Amie Grills<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Amie Grills, associate dean of faculty affairs & research, and professor of counseling psychology & applied human development, received the Edward H. Ladd Award for Academic Excellence and Service, which recognizes an outstanding member of the BU Wheelock faculty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grills focuses on anxiety, trauma, depression, and behavioral difficulties, especially in children. She also studies the development and evaluation of cognitive behavioral assessments and intervention, including those in web-based platforms. Her work has examined the role of peer, familial, and academic variables on the development of youth internalizing difficulties. As associate dean, Grills has been instrumental in developing and strengthening the processes that are regularly employed by BU Wheelock faculty in their teaching, research, and administrative functions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gordon L. Marshall Fellowship: Tina Durand and Laura Jim\u00e9nez<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tina Durand and Laura Jim\u00e9nez each received a Gordon L. Marshall Fellowship. The fellowship, which is named for a former president of Wheelock College, supports full-time faculty engaging in scholarship while also teaching full time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Durand, clinical associate professor of psychology & human development will use this award to support her scholarship in school transition experiences of ethnic minority children and adolescents. Her project will examine ethnic-racial variability in early adolescents\u2019 experiences with school context in key domains, along with their ethnic-racial identity (ERI) beliefs, and their relation to academic efficacy and socioemotional well-being, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laura Jim\u00e9nez, lecturer of literacy education was awarded the fellowship to support her work with teachers to center in their instruction children\u2019s literature that more closely reflects the changing population of this country; including the stories, voices, and histories of marginalized individuals and communities written by members of those communities. Using this model, she will also examine whether teachers\u2019 participation in this project will lead to changes in their teaching practices and students\u2019 engagement and literacy outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty Large Research Award: Melissa Holt<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Melissa Holt, associate professor of counseling psychology & applied human development received the Faculty Large Research Award, which supports a faculty member who is engaging in original and potentially groundbreaking work with the goal of utilizing their findings to pursue subsequent external funding. Dr. Holt\u2019s study, Pilot Testing a Novel Online Recruitment Strategy for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Adolescents, is exploring how to better support the well-being of transgender and non-conforming youth to ensure that they experience optimal learning and thrive psychologically and academically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seed Grant Award: Elena Forzani<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Elena Forzani, assistant professor of language & literacy, received the Seed Grant Award, which provides funding for pilot research studies that have the potential to attract subsequent external funding. Forzani\u2019s study, What Do We Mean By Online Evaluation?: A Critical Review of Research Across Disciplinary Contexts and Age Groups, will undertake a systematic literature review on the evaluation of online information, pulling together research across different disciplines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty Proposal Writing Awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Finally, four faculty members received Faculty Proposal Writing Awards, which support faculty’s additional time (1-course reduction) during the semester preceding their grant submission to facilitate their successful proposal completion and grant submission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Jerry Whitmore, clinical assistant professor of educational leadership & policy studies:\u00a0Innovating dynamic STEM pedagogy: The Engineering-Education Collaborative Laboratory\u00a0(NSF, submitted Feb 2020)<\/li>
  • Elena Forzani:\u00a0Critical Positioning within Online Science Inquiry(NSF, submitted Nov 2019)<\/li>
  • Detris Adelabu, clinical professor of counseling psychology & applied human development:\u00a0REU in Education and Human Development at Boston University: The Emerging Scholars Program\u00a0<\/em>(NSF, submitted August 2020)<\/li>
  • Zachary Rossetti, assistant professor of teaching & learning:\u00a0Examination of an Innovative Engagement Program for Parents of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities\u00a0<\/em>(Spencer\/Tower, Fall 2020)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Five BU Wheelock faculty members were recently honored for their scholarly contributions and excellence. Edward H. Ladd Award for Academic Excellence & Service: Amie Grills Amie Grills, associate dean of faculty affairs & research, and professor of counseling psychology & applied human development, received the Edward H. Ladd Award for Academic Excellence and Service, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"Faculty & staff news","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[4064,5867,4113,5703,4099,4095,5868,4051],"bu-publication":[6614],"magazine-article-category":[],"magazine-topic":[],"news-article-category":[6645,6648,6651,6647,6646],"news-topic":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/66728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/66728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72993,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/66728\/revisions\/72993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66728"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=66728"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article-category?post=66728"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=66728"},{"taxonomy":"news-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article-category?post=66728"},{"taxonomy":"news-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topic?post=66728"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=66728"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=66728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}