December 2011 > Students
In Brief
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Kathryn Zamora-Moeller, a doctoral candidate in Social and Cultural Studies has received a National Academy of Education Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for the 2011-12 school year. The $25,000 fellowship will support her dissertation, "Investing in the Girl Effect: Transnational Corporate Investment in Girls' Education.” Zamora-Moeller previously earned a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant as well as a 2009-10 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad award. |
Sera Hernandez and Kim Nga Huynh were among a diverse group of 13 researchers from multiple University of California campuses who were awarded grants for their work in addressing educational inequalities by UC/ACCORD All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity. Hernandez, a doctoral student in Language, Literacy, and Culture, focuses her research on U.S. language politics and how they impact language use and literacy practices in homes and schools. Her dissertation examines how educational discourse and policies influence interactions between the home and school for Mexican immigrant families with children in middle school. Her dissertation is entitled "Beyond Risks and Resources: Educational Discourse and the Construction of the Home-School Relationship for Mexican Immigrant Families." Huynh is a doctoral student in Policy and Organizations Research. Her research interests include community colleges, school organization, remediation, marginalized youth and the role of teacher/faculty beliefs in the education process. Her dissertation research highlights transitional periods; specifically examining how new community college students perceive opportunities and constraints within their respective institution, and the ways they adapt to institutional weaknesses. Huynh's dissertation is entitled "Stepping Stones to a Baccalaureate."
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The Berkeley Review of Education (BRE), the peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published online and edited by GSE students, published its third issue in late October. Authors include recent graduate student, Usree Bhattacharya; as well as Julian Vasquez Heilig, Amy Williams, Linda McSpadden McNeil, Christopher Lee, Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell. From left, Arturo Cortez, Aaminah Norris and Tony Johnson were among GSE students and faculty celebrating the release of the latest BRE journal this fall. |
Katrina Martin, a fourth-year graduate student in the Joint Doctoral Special Education Program, earned a graduate fellowship from the Greater Good Science Center. The Hornaday Graduate Fellowship is given annually to UC Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students from across a broad spectrum of academic disciplines whose work relates to the Center's mission in the social-behavioral sciences. As a Fellow, Martin plans to implement and evaluate an intervention for teaching empathy understanding to young children with autism.
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Christine Gerchow, a first year student in the School Psychology program earned a scholarship to attend the National Summit for the Foundation for Excellence in Education in San Francisco, October 13-14. Speakers included Jeb Bush, pictured with Gerchow at left; Melinda Gates; Rupert Murdoch; Antonio Villaraigosa; and superintendents and leaders in education. |
Omoju Miller, a student in the Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education (SESAME), led a sold-out TEDx event on "Achieving Social Impact through Entrepreneurship." The local event was independently organized by UC Berkeley Black Graduate Engineering Science students and volunteers.
Tia Madkins, a doctoral student in Development in Math and Science, has published “The Black Teacher Shortage: A Literature Review of Historical and Contemporary Trends” in the Summer 2011 edition of The Journal of Negro Education. The literature review is a synthesis of research relevant to understanding factors that influence the current number of Black teachers in the workforce and ways to increase this number using alternative certification routes.
| Genevieve Negron-Gonzales, a GSE doctoral candidate, earned an honorable mention award in UC Berkeley's 2011 Thomas I. Yamashita Prize. Negron-Gonzales, who provides leadership training to immigrant communities, was nominated by former GSE Assistant Professor Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, with Gonzales, right. |
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