Kudos: Means awarded NSF grant; Delgado-Romero honored by national organization
Means awarded NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Grant
Julie Stanton, an assistant professor of cellular biology, and Darris Means, an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development Services, were recently awarded an NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Grant.
The three-year, $299,958 research project, called “Identifying the Community Cultural Wealth of Successful Black Science Students through Participatory Action Research,” will examine critical factors and mechanisms that support science degree persistence for black students. Stanton and Means will be working with student co-researchers Lola Babatola, Birook MeKonnen, Wunmi Oni, and Chimezie Osondu, on the project.
Delgado-Romero honored by national organization
The National Latina/o Psychological Association, a national organization of mental health researchers and practitioners that work to advance psychological knowledge to benefit Latinas/os, will give the 2018 NLPA Distinguished Professional Career Award to Edward Delgado-Romero. The award will be presented during the organization’s biennial conference Oct. 18-21 in California.
The award is given to a psychologist whose contributions have “advanced an agenda congruent with NLPA’s mission.”