Recent Awards & Grants

Selected Research Awards and Grants (See also Teaching and Mentoring Awards)

• Excellence in Research Publication Reviewing:
  • Sociology of Education, R&R Award, 2022
  • AERA Open, Outstanding Reviewer, 2023
• 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)
• NSF Award #1920670: Gendered Pathways: From Florida’s Two-Year Institutions to Computing Degrees (PI with co-PI Shouping Hu, 2019-2022)
• Planning Grant Awardee, Council on Research & Creativity, Office of Research, Florida State University (2019)
• Dean’s Circle Research Grant Competition Awardee, College of Education, Florida State Univeristy (2019) (declined)
• Nominee-Florida State University, Emerging Scholars Award, Diverse Issues in Education (2018)
• Evaluation Subcontract PI, Education for Life, ECMC Foundation with Temple University HOPE Center for College, Community, and Justice (2018-2021)
• Lead Evaluator, Three interrelated NSF-funded evaluation studies of HBCU Engineering Interventions (TIP, RISE, CREST; 2016-2022).
• Co-Investigator, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Center for Postsecondary Success measurement and evaluation partnership.
• Alternate/Honorable Mention, AAUW Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016)
• Finalist, FSU College of Education’s Robert M. Gagne Research Award (2015)
• Honorable Mention, Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2013)
• 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)