Kudos: Doctoral students, staff member recognized at BFSO luncheon; Lewis Ellison invited to serve on grant advisory committee

Doctoral students, staff member receive awards at BFSO luncheon

Two students and one staff member in the Mary Frances Early College of Education received scholarships and awards at the Black Faculty and Staff Organization’s annual luncheon.

Jasmine Newsome (Ph.D. ’25) and Shawntell Pace (M.Ed. ’19, Ph.D. ’25), doctoral students in the counseling psychology program, were among the six students recognized with scholarship awards. Newsome received the Melanie A. Burden Community Arts Award and Pace received the Graduate Founders Award.

Takenya Moore, human resources coordinator for the College, was one of four recipients of the 2022 Ed Wilker Memorial Egalitarian Award.

Please join us in congratulating them!

Read the full story on the UGA Today website.

Lewis Ellison invited to serve on grant advisory committee

Tisha Lewis Ellison, an associate professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, has been invited to serve on the National Leadership Grant Advisory Committee for an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant project.

This two-year grant project, “Enriching Library Family Programming Using the Smithsonian’s Institution’s Talk with Me Toolkits,” will provide innovative opportunities for family engagement and literacy efforts in libraries working with underserved families in collaboration with the Family Place Libraries, the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at Penn State University, and the Smithsonian’s Office of Educational Technology.

The project will also help librarians expand their digital resources by developing their own collections. Lewis Ellison’s advisory committee duties consist of providing guidance and input on the redesign of the Smithsonian Institution’s Talk with Me Toolkits, as well as the evaluation, development of deliverables, dissemination activities, and sustainability plan.