Recent Research Awards & Grants

(See also Teaching and Mentoring Awards)

Externally-Funded Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

• NSF-funded evaluation studies of HBCU Engineering Interventions (TIP, RISE, CREST levels 1 and 2; 2016-2030).
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Strategic Communications Project (Grant No. 2025-25210). Total award: $11,447.
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Award #2305516 (canceled April, 2025): BPC-DP: HSI (R)evolution: Building Authenticity at Institutions Emerging to Serve Latine Students (Co-PI with Faye Jones (PI), Ebe Randeree (Co-PI), and Marcia Mardis (Co-PI). (Sept. 2024-August 2026). Total award: $299,659.
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Award #2305516 (canceled May, 2025): ADVANCE Adaptation: Institutionalizing Normative Changes for Recruitment, Empowerment, Advancement, and Systematic Equity for STEM Faculty (INCREASE) (PI with co-PIs Tamara Bertrand Jones, Sara Hart, and Roxanne Hughes, 2023-2026). Total award: $999,919.
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, co-PI with Annie Wofford (PI) and Bret Staudt Willet (Co-PI), (Jan 2023–Jun 2025). Aligning Graduate Education and Workforce Opportunities: A robust, equity-focused landscape scan of computing technology. Total award $250,000.
• William T. Grant Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (Grant No. 2022043). co-PI with Nicole Patton Terry (PI) and Jenny Root (Co-PI). (Jul 2022–Jun 2025). University Research Partnerships to Reduce Educational Disparity in College Towns: Building a Model Framework in Tallahassee, Florida. Total award $650,000.
• American Educational Research Association, Research-Service Partnership (PI). Making Hunger Visible: Florida Research-Practitioner Partnership on Food Insecurity. Total award $5,000. (2021-22)
• Mid-Career Fellow, Student Experience Research Network, 2022-23
• Excellence in Research Publication Reviewing:
  • AERA Open, Outstanding Reviewer, 2023
  • Sociology of Education, R&R Award, 2022
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Award #2030070:  Using Fine-Grained Quantitative and Qualitative Data to Enhance Curricula and Broaden Participation in Computer Science (co-PI with Andy Wang, David Whalley, Xiuwen Liu, and Sonia Haiduc, 2020-2025)
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Award #1920670: Gendered Pathways: From Florida’s Two-Year Institutions to Computing Degrees (PI with co-PI Shouping Hu, 2019-2024)
• Evaluation Subcontract PI, Education for Life, ECMC Foundation with Temple University HOPE Center for College, Community, and Justice (2018-2021)
• Co-Investigator, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Center for Postsecondary Success measurement and evaluation partnership.
• Alternate/Honorable Mention, AAUW Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016)
• Honorable Mention, Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2013)
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Award #1232139: Enhancing the Rigor of Evidence on Gendered Differences in STEM Persistence: Female and Male College Students’ Subjective Experiences in Engineering and Computer Science (Co-PI with PI Barbara Schneider, 2012-2015)

Internal Awards and Sub-Awards

• FSU Office of Research, Collaborative Collision Mini-Grant Competition. Co-PI. Total award $25,000.
• Dean’s Circle Research Grant Competition Awardee, College of Education, Florida State University (2019) (declined)
• Council on Research & Creativity, Office of Research, Florida State University (2019)
• Nominee-Florida State University, Emerging Scholars Award, Diverse Issues in Education (2018)
• Finalist, FSU College of Education’s Robert M. Gagne Research Award (2015, 2021, 2022)