From the Office of Research and Graduate Education: Congratulations to recent grant recipients
University of Georgia STARTALK Russian for Global Professionals Program
- PI: Victoria Hasko, associate professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
- Sponsor: National Security Agency
- Amount: $295,345.49
Congratulations to associate professor Victoria Hasko and her collaborators on receiving a grant from the National Security Agency. This program is designed to attract highly motivated undergraduate students striving for advanced proficiency in Russian and who have a strong interest in joining the federal workforce.
SISTEMAS: Stimulating Immersive Science Through Engaging Motivating and Authentic Scenarios
- PI: Georgia Hodges, associate research scientist, Department of Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education
- Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
- Amount: $1,270,312
Congratulations to associate research scientist Georgia Hodges and her collaborators on receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation. The focus of the SISTEMAS proposal is to support and equip underrepresented students, with a particular focus on Latinx multilingual learners, to enter the STEM pipeline and persist.
Georgia Teacher Endorsement Project
- PI: Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett, senior associate dean and professor, Department of Educational Psychology
- Sponsor: Georgia Department of Education
- Amount: $332,770
Congratulations to senior associate dean Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett and her collaborators on receiving a grant from the Georgia Department of Education. It provides scholarship support for inservice Georgia teachers to receive one of five endorsements:
- English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
- Gifted in-field education
- K-5 mathematics
- Special education preschool (ages 3-5)
- Reading education
SPEAKOUT! Grant 2022
- PI: Nina Santus, clinical assistant professor, Department of Communications Sciences and Special Education
- Sponsor: Parkinson Voice Project
- Amount: $17,100
Congratulations to assistant professor Nina Santus on receiving this unique grant in partnership with Parkinson Voice Project, which aims to make quality speech treatment accessible to people with Parkinson’s across the globe.
Grant sites receive free SPEAK OUT!, LOUD Crowd, and Teletherapy training for their speech-language pathologists and graduate students, as well as speech therapy supplies and funding for their LOUD Crowd® groups.