The Vice President's Grant for Student Research in Diversity (SRD)
SRD: 2007-2008 Awards
SRD: 2007 - 2008 Awards
The Committee for Community and Diversity is pleased to announce the 2007-2008 recipients of the President's Grant for Student Research in Diversity.
The awards provide support for outstanding student research projects related to diversity in research, teaching, learning, or community building. Diversity in the context of this award program is broadly defined and includes the exploration of multiple perspectives involving, for example, culture(s), language(s), gender, sexual orientation, race-ethnicity, disabilities.
The process was extremely competitive, as there were 10 proposals. The Grant Review Committee was uniformly impressed with the high-quality, innovativeness, important questions and relevant topics of the proposals submitted. Spanning a broad spectrum of diversity, the proposals truly attest to the varied and meaningful scholarship on the part of TC students.
Ultimately, two applicants were selected as grant recipients with a $3,000 award and two other applicants received a $1,000 honorable mention award.
GRANT RECIPIENTS
Student Name: Sadia R. Chaudhury, M.S.
Faculty Sponsor:
In this exploratory study, a mixed methods approach will be used to study the attitudes towards diagnosis and treatment of major depression in South Asian Muslim Americans, in order to assist mental health professionals better understand the mental health needs and concerns in this growing yet understudied community. In particular, the roles of acculturation, the process by which a person experiences changes in their cultural values and behaviors as they come into firsthand, continuous contact with a dominant host culture (Graves, 1967), and enculturation, the retention of native culture by immigrants while living in a dominant host culture (Cortes, Rogler & Malgady, 1994), on shaping these attitudes will be thoroughly explored. It is hoped that the study’s findings will help the Principal Investigator of this study, who herself is a South Asian Muslim American mental health professional, to develop effectivepsychoeducational tools for members of this underserved community.
Faculty Sponsor: Anna Neumann, Professor of Higher Education
Department: Organization and Leadership
Proposal Title: Evolutionary Teaching: Exploring Pedagogical Change in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education at Major Research Universities
Student Name: Silvia Mazzula
Faculty Sponsor: Robert T. Carter, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Education
Department: Counseling and Clinical Psychology
Proposal Title: Bicultural Competence: The Role of Acculturation, Collective Self-Esteem and Racial Identity
This study examines whether behavioral acculturation, racial identity and collective self-esteem capture the construct of bicultural competence and its relationship to psychological well-being and distress among 520 Latino(a) adults. A structural equation model (SEM) analysis will be performed to confirm the presence of bicultural competence and establish if bicultural competence results in psychological well-being.
Student Name: Justin Jones, M.A.
Faculty Sponsor Lisa Miller, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology and Education
Department: Counseling and Clinical Psychology
Proposal Title: The Gay Fatherhood Project
This study will examine how a child impacts the commitment to the romantic relationship for self-identified coupled gay men who are raising a child or children, how these men both view their role in the family and how they navigate the day-to-day responsibilities of childcare and housework, and the emotional impact of fatherhood on this population. A sample of at least 65 participants will be asked to complete questionnaires with regard to demographics, commitment in their relationship, degree of endorsement of traditional masculine ideology, sharing of responsibilities related to childcare and household tasks, and level of endorsement of spirituality. The results will be compared to the current understanding of fathers raising children in heterosexual relationships.