
June 2007 > Students > Honors
In Brief
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Language and Literacy, Society and Culture
students Shantina Jackson and Ariana
Mangual have each received a
2007–08 UC Mentored Research
Award. These UC systemwide awards assist doctoral students in acquiring
research skills under faculty mentorship, while working on their own
pre-dissertation research. Each awardee receives $14,000, plus in-state
fees for the academic year. Each UC campus receives 15 awards. Jackson
will be working with GSE professor Daniel Perlstein and Mangual
with Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology professor William Hanks.
Quantitative Methods and Evaluation student
Diana Bernbaum has been awarded a 2007–08 College Board Research
Grant Award. Bernbaum will receive $36,000 for the award, which is
given to just five young scholars in the nation. Her research paper
is entitled: Measuring College Readiness: Applying the College Board
Standards for College Success to Cognitive and Psychometric Models
of Student Learning in Mathematics.
The GSE’s Outstanding Dissertation Award was presented to Indigo
Esmonde at this year’s commencement exercises, whose dissertation
chair is Geoff Saxe.
Several UC Berkeley graduate students gave presentations at the American
Education Research Association and National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics national conferences.